Adding up the most important ingredient stats — our weekly mix:
2
… of the biggest U.S. grocers are removing cilantro. In case you missed it, cilantro contamination has been making some interesting headlines (including ours). [Bloomberg]
$500M
… is going into Goya Foods’ multi-year strategy to "help endear the company to its natural consumer base, U.S. Hispanics, whose spending power Nielsen recently estimated would reach $1.5 trillion this year," CNBC reported.
75
… days of comment started Monday for the FDA’s new suggested "percent daily value" rule for added sugars on food labels.
$4.4B
… how big the global food coating ingredients market is forecast to hit by 2022, says a Grand View Research, Inc. study.
6
… the number of basic tastes now that fat no longer overlaps with umami, according to science.