Today’s consumers lead busy lives, which sometimes means eating on-the-run. Fortunately, many bakeries are offering convenient grab-and-go breakfast items like muffins and donuts.
Take a look at our new “Future Foodie” column in our February issue. Written by Elyse Buckley, a student at Kansas State University in Manhattan, it provides a fresh perspective of the food industry. Buckley is a graduate student and a Master of Science candidate in the grain science department at KSU.
Phoenix-based Inventure Foods expands its portfolio of brands by entering into a licensing agreement with Vidalia Brands of Glennville, Ga., to develop new snack line.
Grupo Bimbo SAB, Mexico City, and Flowers Foods, Thomasville, Ga., are emerging as the two of the bidders for Wonder Bread and other Hostess bread brands as Irving, Texas-based Hostess Brands Inc. tries to sell off its assets under bankruptcy-court oversight.
Pork rinds are probably the most misunderstood item in the snack category. This is surprising, because people have been eating pork rinds—also called pork skins—as long as they have been eating pigs. One of the world’s first snack foods created thousands of years ago, and favored in the southern states, pork rinds are a simple combination of fried pork skins and salt.
The snack bar market has blossomed at twice the rate of other snack food sectors and at almost three times the rate of the overall packaged food sector during the past 10 years, says Rabobank Group’s latest report, ‘Never Eat More Than You Can Lift.’ One of the leaders of the pack in the category is Clif Bar & Co., according to the report.
As its first acquisition, Kraft Foods Europe, which is being integrated into spunoff snack giant Mondelez International, purchases Italy’s Vitasnella snack business from France’s Danone for an undisclosed price as part of its consolidation plans in Europe.
Kellogg Co. has launched a low-calorie popcorn chip under its Special K snacks line. Special K Popcorn Chips are baked instead of fried and are crunchy. The popcorn chips come in Butter and Sweet & Salty flavors.
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