by Darryl David | Jul 27, 2015 | Dairy & Industry News
The National Egg Shortage: Last spring, the H5N2 avian influenza virus hit farms in the Midwest, resulting in over 48 million turkey and chicken deaths. As a result, May egg production totaled 8 billion, down 5 percent from 2014, according to the USDA. There was also...
by Darryl David | Jul 20, 2015 | Ice Cream Consulting
You’ve seen Trans Fat listed on ice cream labels, sometime 0% or blank space following the word and sometimes not. If a percentage number does follow trans fat, then what is the source, where’s it coming from? Understand the fats: Trans Fat or “trans-unsaturated...
by Darryl David | Jul 17, 2015 | Ice Cream Consulting
As a consultant in the ice cream and non-dairy industry, I regularly meet with individuals that have an idea, but little understanding of the money investment required to start and more importantly to sustain their business. In today’s world people hear about startups...
by Darryl David | Jun 29, 2015 | Cannabis Consumables
Manufacturing cannabis ice cream. The concept of eating your THC is old, but commercially manufacturing foodstuffs and selling it legally is a new notion — at least it is here in the U.S. Cosmic “High” Quality Tasting Ice Cream It’s “High” Time for Ice Cream Eat...
by Darryl David | Jun 23, 2015 | Ice Cream Consulting
Described in wikipedia, Liquid nitrogen or LN2 is nitrogen in a liquid state at an extremely low temperature. It is produced industrially by fractional distillation of liquid air. Liquid nitrogen is a colorless clear liquid with density of 0.807 g/ml at its boiling...
by Darryl David | Jun 19, 2015 | Ice Cream Consulting
The authors were tasked with the burden of roaming the countryside to search out their best shops in the USA. There are thousands of shops in america besides ice cream, including gelato, frozen yogurt, frozen custard plus vegan to name a few, so how does one decide...
by Darryl David | Jun 15, 2015 | Business
If you are looking to introduce a new product, but not interested in manufacturing it yourself and prefer using the services of a independent Co-Pack manufacturer, then here are a few true – false assumptions you should know prior to signing on with a...
by Darryl David | May 30, 2015 | Ice Cream Consulting
Ideas are a dime a dozen with a large percentage including patented never making it to market. In the past I’ve written on the tasks and challenges of a product concept to product execution or reality. Knowing and following through on the required steps from concept...
by Darryl David | May 7, 2015 | Ice Cream Consulting
Jeni’s product recall Read the compamy statement on the front page of Jeni’s web site https://jenis.com/. We received the call that no ice cream maker, chef, or entrepreneur wants. A randomly selected pint of ours tested positive for the presence of Listeria...
by Darryl David | Apr 28, 2015 | Dairy & Industry News
Recently, CEO Kruse is apologizing for placing tainted products on the retail shelf weeks after it was discovered that 3 people died from consuming Blue Bell products. The video of him should have been released 4 weeks ago, to show the public Blue Bell really cares...
