Unsurprisingly, salty snacks experienced a slight increase in sales over the past year, as Americans stayed home during the pandemic. Chips, popcorn, pretzels, and tortilla chips are all easily available snacks to munch on at home, especially during movie nights, and as a result the category experienced a small uptick.
Even though we are now nearing the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers have become comfortable with snacking more at home, including snacking on tortilla chips. This trend will continue through 2021, but consumers are also searching for better-for-you and plant-based tortilla chip options.
PeaTos continues to shake up traditional snacking with the launch of three new crunchy tortilla-style chips: Nacho Cheese, Zesty Ranch and a vegan Fiery Nacho.
From tortilla chips to street tacos, it's fair to say that tortillas are extremely versatile. And tortilla products all saw nice growth over the past year.
Flour tortillas continue to be a growing category within the bakery segment. And the choice of either a liquid oil or solid fat for a tortilla can impact the product eating characteristics and processing factors, says Michelle Peitz, technical solutions and marketing, oilseeds, ADM, Chicago.
Tortilla and wrap brand aims to get customers' Cinco de Mayo celebrations moving with Cinco recipes, prizes, music-themed giveaways, and more.
April 29, 2021
Mission Foods has launched a Sync up your Cinco campaign to help consumers sync up their celebrations with festive food, drink, music and décor, no matter how they are celebrating.
Tia Lupita recently released Cactus Grain-free Tortilla Chips in Habanero, with the spicy flavor of its Habanero hot sauce in a crunchy cactus tortilla chip.
For National Tortilla Chip Day (2/24) this year, Late July has released new vegetable tortilla chips, available in two flavors: Beat the Heat! Red Pepper, and Dangle the Carrot.