Institute of Food Technologists

The New Tropical Fruit Palette

Lychee, guava, dragon fruit, and other exotic fruit flavors are ripe for expansion into more mainstream products as global consumers look to explore beyond familiar tropical tastes like pineapple, ...
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Marcia Walker On Food Innovation, Designing Better Ingredients at the Source

Marcia Walker, PhD, an IFT Fellow, brings more than two decades of front-line experience in food safety, product innovation, and commercialization. She has pioneered high-pressure processing, helped ...
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Adapt or Fall Behind: The Agentic Imperative for Food Companies

Tastewise CEO Alon Chen told attendees at IFT FIRST that agentic AI is rapidly becoming a competitive necessity, helping food companies accelerate innovation, understand consumers in real time, and ...
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Separating Signals From Noise to Understand Food’s Future

Food futurist Mike Lee explains how food industry leaders can identify enduring consumer shifts, leverage AI for innovation, and make sustainable products more appealing by positioning them as ...
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The Pitch! Perfect: Allergen-Free Nut Company Wins Startup Competition

Nurtured Nuts won the top prize at IFT FIRST’s The Pitch! competition for its CRISPR-developed allergen-free peanuts, highlighting a diverse group of food tech startups advancing innovations in ...
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Invited Student Research Presenter: Effects of Pressure, Acidity, and Alkali Treatment on Protein Recovery From Insect Biomass Under High-Pressure Extraction Conditions

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 12:20 PM to 12:30 PM CT Expo Hall A: Research Showcase and Poster Stage Food News Now delivers personalized industry news from reputable sources to your inbox daily.
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Individual Presentation: The Current State of Cold Plasma Technology in Food Processing

Cold atmospheric pressure plasma (CAPP) is a novel non-thermal technology that has gained attention in food and agricultural applications. Plasma, the fourth state of matter, offers a good alternative ...
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AI, Agility, and Communication Top Career Skills for Food Scientists

Panelists at IFT FIRST explore how AI, adaptability, communication, and changing workforce expectations are reshaping food science careers.
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Experts Debate How MAHA Is Reshaping Food Science and Regulation

Experts at IFT FIRST examined how the MAHA movement is influencing food regulation, ingredient reformulation, consumer ...
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How Food Science Is Driving Innovation to Feed the World

What does it take to turn food science into a force for global good? In this episode, Food Science for Relief and Development leaders Donna Rosa and Randol Rodriguez share eye-opening examples of how ...
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Invited Student Research Presenter: Engineering Plant-Based Meat: A 3D Printing Approach to Formulation Optimization

This presentation features the latest and greatest science from an Invited Student Research Presenter! Invited Student Research Presenters were among the highest scoring abstracts out of hundreds of ...