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Moving on from incremental improvements in Health and Wellness

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Moving on from incremental improvements in Health and Wellness snacking, complete re-imagination of formulas is required to keep the attention of a more educated consumer.

Consumers are seeking snacking options that offer clear purpose. Rather than single ingredient elimination (HFCS-FREE, ALL NATURAL COLORS AND FLAVORS, ETC), consumers are searching more and more for convenient snacking options that cover, in a larger sense, nutritional profile. Does the product have healthy proteins and fats included means much more to consumers in 2020 than eliminating one ingredient for advertising purposes did in 2015, for instance.

With that in mind, Stewart Ingredient Systems continues to stay on the cutting edge of product development inside snacking categories. As a product developer and a manufacturer, SIS is well positioned to co-develop on these high-protein, potentially fatted formulas that attack health and wellness from a more wholistic approach that consumers are striving for in 2020 and beyond.

Begin your project today with SIS by submitting a Sample Request Form or call Ross Stewart today at 312-254-3539!

Prepared Foods Landscape Changing Rapidly

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“The landscape for prepared foods has been changing rapidly over the past decade, due largely to changes in consumer perception about the healthfulness, nutritional value, safety, and sustainability of prepared foods”. Prepared Foods Magazine, February 2019

The perception of consumers has changed dramatically over the past decade and has in-turn driven the food manufacturing industry, like a speeding semi in the fog, in many different directions. It’s a complicated relationship in which manufacturers and purchasers of food ingredients have had entire categories of ingredients removed from Approved Lists just because the name is too long. Even if derived from all-natural ingredients, just the sound of an ingredient like Xanthan Gum elicits a negative response from the new generation of consumers.

Consumer perception weighed against product reality.

As custom developers and manufacturers servicing industrial bakers (and their marketing departments!), it is incumbent upon us to have ready solutions to your regulatory concerns so you can respond to the latest consumer trends. As many artificial colorants have recently fallen out of favor, we are very well-positioned to formulate a variety of naturally-colored products. Do you need only natural colors to appear on your label but cannot find the right color product to satisfy the project? We can help! Unacceptable Ingredient Lists will continue to grow but Stewart Ingredient Systems will continue to be on the forefront of developing innovative products for the next unique generation of consumers.

Lower Sugar Levels In-Demand

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Increasingly, consumers are motivated to reduce or eliminate sugar and/or consume alternate natural sweeteners.

As food developers and manufacturers, remaining aware and reacting to changing consumer demands is a necessary step in an evolving marketplace. With 47% of consumers currently saying that they are actively attempting to minimize their sugar intake, it is incumbent upon us as suppliers to bakeries and product developers across industry to provide sugar-free or no-sugar-added options. At Stewart Ingredient Systems Inc., our developers have been providing reduced-sugar and sugar-free options for use in bakeries and snack producers for more than 30 years.

No matter how close or far off industry projections may have been going back 10 years, reacting in real time to changing demands is the only way to keep consumers pulling products off the shelves. Stewart Ingredient Systems maintains our own in-house R&D along with our just-in-time manufacturing operation which complements changing demands and makes us the perfect partner heading into 2019.

Begin building your next project with SIS by Contacting Us today.

Formulating for Portion Control and Better-for-You in the Bakery Aisle

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Stewart Ingredient Systems, Inc. has been formulating solutions for smaller portions and higher flavor intensity to specifically combat the marketplace reaction over the past 5 plus years to smaller portions and better-for-you options in the grocery aisle. Our products can be found on the shelves today in GMO-Free, HFCS-Free and All-Natural snacking options.

As more bakers and food manufacturers continue to develop new ideas to attract the more conscious and attentive consumer, SIS stands ready to answer all new developments from the concept level through market realization. Our development team prides itself and generates opportunity through our rapid response to requests in order to keep developers working rather than waiting on product. When we provide developers with product with our rapid turnaround times, we provide the best opportunity to keep marketing teams involved and interested in approving the next idea.

Whether our focus is delivering high quality flavor and eating experience in a 5-inch pie rather than a 12-inch pie with our fillings to help deliver extraordinary flavor release inside portion controlled items or developing better-for-you options with inclusions for nutrition panels, SIS has the expert developers and manufacturing team to bring these ideas to the marketplace.

Don’t hesitate as we head directly into the fall season. Contact Ross Stewart today at 312-254-3539 or RStewart@Stewartis.com!

Seasonal Offerings from Stewart Ingredient Systems

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stewart-ingredients-chicago-pumpkin-fillingNovember is fast approaching and it’s the perfect time to roll-out seasonal offerings for consumers over the next three months. As a R&D house that manufactures all of our custom formulated items under one roof, SIS is perfectly positioned to accommodate any seasonal concepts and equipped to do so in a rapid fashion.

Below is just a spattering of concepts to get marketing and product developments wheels turning. Contact Ross Stewart at (312) 254-3539, ext. 18 today and we will jump at the opportunity to allow our products to speak for themselves!

  • Pumpkin Pie Filling
  • Sweet Potato Pie Filling
  • Apricot Filling
  • Cranberry Filling
  • Toasted Marshmallow
  • Cranberry-Orange Filling
  • Pomegranate Filling
  • Sweet Pear Filling
  • Cranberry-Apple Filling

Our Company

In January, 2011, Keith Stewart Fruit Products, Inc. becomes Stewart Ingredient Systems, Inc. S.I.S. will remain committed to the standards of rapid development services, lean manufacturing and relationship business which allowed us to survive and thrive through the decades. The next generation is hungry to expand on our traditions and leverage them into greater innovation and aggressive growth. We deeply appreciate all of those customers and suppliers who have helped us build for this day and look forward to nurturing existing relationships while looking forward to new opportunities, earning the same loyalty and sense of partnership.