Month: October 2017

Research and Development Tax Credit

SPI Group recently attended a meat conference at Texas A&M and one of the speakers talked about R&D Tax Incentives for food companies that do R&D/Product development. Many companies in the food manufacturing and processing industries are unaware that the government offers generous research & development incentive programs. Even those that are aware often fail…
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Natural and Clean – Research for Understanding Consumers

SPI Group is committed to helping our customers meet consumers’ needs, as we all know, one of the most popular trends is clean(er) labels and natural.  Except that clean and natural have no definition.  DuPont Nutrition and Health spent the last year researching what consumers mean when they say they want clean and natural. 57%…
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True "Uncured" Labeled Meats

Celery juice powder is used in many natural uncured sausages and deli meats, with packaging that declares ”A natural source of nitrates”. In fact, celery juice powder is a source of concentrated nitrite! SPI Group and Wenda Ingredients offer another option for natural meats:  use Spice and Fruit Extracts from Prosur.  Prosur T-10 plus works…
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DATEM Replacement in baked goods

Our friends at MGP Ingredients were recently featured by Bakerpedia! The featured ingredient in this article is Arise® 8100:  a functional wheat protein isolate.  It affects the rheology or machinability of doughs and exhibits enhanced extensibility properties that decreases mixing time and improves loaf volume of bread and other yeast-leavened products. As an added bonus; …
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Plant-based 90% Protein Nuggets

SPI Group just returned from the Supply Side West show, where we were excited to introduce our customers to some exciting new ingredients: plant-based 90% Protein Nuggets from DuPont Nutrition and Health.  The new SUPRO® 90 percent protein nuggets are unique not only for their high level of protein, but also because they are label friendly. We…
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