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Not long to go until Food ingredients Europe! Meet OV to explore how sweet ingredients and decorations can bring flavour, texture and visual appeal to your next creation. Our team would love to hear about your upcoming projects and help you find inspiration across bakery, ice cream, confectionery, desserts and beverages. 📍 Stand 30C44 📅 17–19 November | Frankfurt Planning to attend? Message us to arrange a meeting, or stop by our stand. #FiEurope2026 #SweetIngredients #ProductDevelopment

🎃 Planning your Halloween 2027 range? Explore three directions shaping the seasonal opportunity: a more considered aesthetic, contrasting textures and familiar favourites with a Halloween twist. Discover how ingredients, inclusions and decorations can turn those ideas into standout concepts across bakery, chocolate, ice cream and desserts.

🌼 Rooted in Mexican culture and distinct from Halloween, Día de Muertos offers a vibrant visual direction for seasonal product development. Explore how expressive colour, decorative forms and contrasting textures could inspire thoughtful concepts across bakery, chocolate, ice cream and desserts.

Familiarity does not have to mean playing it safe. For sweet bakery innovation in 2027, the strongest ideas may be those that give consumers something they recognise, with a fresh reason to choose it. Think chocolate refreshed with nuts, citrus or spice. Familiar desserts reimagined through patisserie-inspired flavours. Or global influences introduced through recognisable formats, such as ube cheesecake, matcha Swiss roll or a cardamom bun. And flavour is only part of the experience. Biscuit pieces, crispies, caramel inclusions, coatings and decorations can add texture and contrast, make indulgence visible and turn a familiar bake into something more memorable. Our latest article explores the sweet bakery flavour trends to watch for 2027 and why familiarity can provide the foundation for meaningful innovation. Read the full article 👇 https://lnkd.in/eVwK7Pup #OVGroup #SweetBakery #BakeryTrends #FlavourTrends #ProductDevelopment #FoodTrends #BakeryTrends2027

🍌 Let’s go bananas! Banana is finding fresh relevance across bakery, chocolate, confectionery, ice cream and beverages. Classified by Mintel as an emerging flavour with stable momentum, banana offers the perfect balance of familiarity and innovation. From nostalgic favourites such as banoffee and banana bread to elevated combinations with caramel, chocolate, matcha and tropical fruits, there is plenty of opportunity to reinvent this much-loved flavour. Our banana range brings flavour, texture and visual impact to every creation, including banana fudge, pearls, sugar shapes and crunchy inclusions. Discover why banana is ripe for reinvention. Link in the comments 👇 #BananaFlavour #FoodTrends #ProductInnovation #BakeryIngredients #ConfectioneryIngredients #OVGroup

Discover our new Nostalgic Dessert Collection – Classics, Reimagined. Developed with our NPD team, this curated sample box includes flavour samples, decoration inspiration and trend-led concepts, designed to help spark ideas and create your next customer-winning launch.