Food Ingredients Recent innovations in functional and natural value-added food ingredients have heightened their importance in new product developments by the food industry. The Internet is an invaluable source of this type of information and a few of the more useful websites are described.
Several databases provide information exclusively about food ingredient companies.
This is an international guide to over 1000 ingredient suppliers. The site can be searched by product, trade name, or company and additionally contains company profile information, and a list of Fi exhibitions worldwide, with details of participating companies. Although full company details are only provided via subscription, company names, country, fax, and telephone numbers are provided free of charge. Full contact details, hotlinks to company homepages, and a full range of products are included on this site. The database can be searched using either the company name or a drop down list of ingredient products.