The Kitchen Innovations Awards celebrate the back-of-house innovations that improve operations and generate growth through advances in automation, sustainability, efficiency, space-saving and more.

Courtesy of King Arthur Baking Company, these twisted buns highlight the spice in the dough, filling and glaze.

For the second year, Mars' DOVE Chocolate has granted women-led businesses $10,000 through DOVE InstaGrants.

Ryan Towry most recently was senior mechanical engineer for Kwik Lok Corp.

The brand is introducing  new products featuring ingredients such as oat milk, coconut sugar, maple sugar, dried cherries, almonds, coffee, toffee, sea salt and more.

Balls Food Stores is giving shelf space to Farmer Direct Foods, a Kansas-based brand at the forefront of regeneratively-grown flour and grain products.

March is National Nutrition Month, and The Soyfoods Council is touting the benefits of sustainable soyfoods that add complete plant protein to diets without adding cholesterol.

The flavor company's annual report examines what consumers are currently looking for in food and beverage categories and predicts upcoming trends through this year.

Retail bakeries are reaching out to their communities in new and different manners, and in more cases than one these efforts involve a digital or online component.