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Issue Highlights
- The Top 100
- Kid-friendly foodservice flavors
- Moderation: A traditional notion gets a modern makeover

The Top 100: It's been a tough year
Our annual list of the 100 largest food and beverage manufacturers in the U.S. and Canada again finds Tyson on top and highlights the star performers of 2005.

Improving flavors for kids' foodservice
Removing bitterness, getting children to enjoy vegetables and other mysteries of improving children's nutrition.

Regulatory Issues: Opportunities and challenges of functional ingredients
Common use in dietary supplements simply does not go far toward establishing GRAS status for a functional ingredient’s use in conventional foods.

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Editor's Plate: All things in moderation

Food trend experts get out their crystal balls

If only they were real products . . .

New Ingredients, Equipment and Services

Control units tolerate UV, ozone exposure

Mayo cold-set gum blend cuts fat and production time

Fast impingement cooking boosts product yield, output

Coming Events

Amer. Dietetic Assn. Food and Nutrition Conf./Expo
Sept. 16-19, Honolulu

Nano4food Conference
Oct. 12-13, Atlanta

Pack Expo Int'l. 2006 and Process Expo 2006
Oct. 29-Nov. 2, Chicago