The newest ingredients give consumers more creative,healthier taste experiences the natural way

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Makers of Canadian food products continue to focus on cleaning up their labels,and ingredient companies are providing them with more options to do that. "There is a push to switch to natural colours and flavours, and also to eliminate chemical preservatives and replace them with natural ones," says Sam Choucha, regional product manager (food specialties) at Univar Canada, based in Richmond, B.C. "Free-from" food markets are growing steadily, he notes, with a high demand for allergen-free, gluten-free, sodium-free, sugar-free and so on.