Market insights

Consumers are clamoring for low- or no-sugar alternatives to their favorite snacks. Here’s how food companies can deliver great products without adverse effects.

5 things to know about mold before formulating snack foods. There have been more than a dozen mold and microbe-related food safety recalls in the last year.

Curing tobacco causes changes in both chemical composition and moisture. Tightly controlling moisture allows quality control managers to deliver a consistent product.

These products are highly susceptible to moisture issues during processing and storage. Measuring moisture and water activity brings huge competitive advantages.

Injection molding plastic parts with resin that has too much moisture in it can lead to brittle, unattractive or otherwise imperfect parts. Water activity can help.

Find the ideal water activity range for your pet food product that maximizes profit, nutrition, and tastiness while keeping it safe from microbes and mold.

Ethanol producers can boost efficiency, save money, and ensure the quality of their product by using water activity.

Functional foods need a shelf life that guarantees not only safety but effectiveness of the functional ingredient. Water activity can help.

Water activity. If you’re making shelf-stable meat, you’re required to measure it. But you can also profit from measuring it, and this guide will show you how.