Food Ingredients

9 articles on Food Ingredients markets, pricing, and procurement strategy.

What Does It Cost to Make Butter Biscuits? A Production Cost Breakdown

Biscuit production cost, layer by layer: what each input adds to a butter biscuit, what moved in 12 months, and the levers that lower unit cost.

How to Respond to a Supplier Price Increase (and Check If It's Justified)

How to respond to a supplier price increase in 7 steps: get the cost breakdown, benchmark each driver, work out the justified rise. Email template inside.

GLP-1 and baking: how manufacturers are adapting formulations to shifting consumption patterns

How GLP-1 is reshaping baking: from sugar reduction to new ingredient systems, and what reformulation means for procurement.

Protein power: how the weight loss medication boom is pushing FMCGs to rethink strategy

Protein power: how the weight loss medication boom is forcing FMCG players to rethink their product offerings and sourcing strategy

Explainer: how consumer expectations are driving ‘clean label’ ingredients procurement

Clean label is becoming an increasingly important area for procurement teams as consumer desires and health trends steer the sourcing market.

Interview: Cargill on the next cocoa era, alternatives, and procurement navigating volatility

Cargill has long been one of the most prominent players in the food ingredients industry and a key player in cocoa specifically.

Vesper expands sugar category with new sweetener price benchmarks

Vesper launches new monthly price benchmarks for Glucose Syrup DE 40-42%, Crystalline Fructose, and Dextrose Monohydrate.

How Vesper is Evolving Price Transparency in Sports Nutrition Commodities

Learn how Vesper provides price transparency for sports nutrition commodities, helping procurement managers secure better prices.

Vesper Becomes the First to Offer a Market-Wide Price Benchmark for Creatine: Enhancing Transparency in Sports Nutrition Sourcing

Discover Vesper’s latest addition to the Vesper Price Index (VPI) with weekly updated, peer-validated creatine prices for the EU market.