While the game of tracking consumer trends is never short on nuance, clear patterns regularly emerge to catalyze incremental growth in select snack and bakery categories.

The Little Kernel, founded by Chris Laurita and Andy Epstein, is a healthy snack with a unique, hulless, “miniature kernel.”

Popcornopolis announced that it will expand its offerings to include Zebra by Popcornopolis — a new line of five indulgent, confection-style gourmet popcorn snacks made with organic popcorn, premium chocolate, and hand-selected ingredients with no artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives.

American Farmer Popcorn announced that it has rolled out its line in all Harris Teeter Supermarkets, a Kroger Company.

Consumers are increasingly monitoring what is and is not in their food, placing greater significance on transparency and back-to-nature foods that contain fewer ingredients.

If snack time isn’t already your favorite time of the day, it will be now. Angie’s BOOMCHICKAPOP, makers of one of the nation’s largest brands of better-for-you popcorn, are introducing five new flavors to its BOOM-ing lineup of gluten-free popcorn and kettle corn.

New Annie’s popcorn is available in organic butter & sea salt and organic white cheddar varieties.

Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery has named industry game-changer Quinn Snacks its 2017 Snack Producer of the Year. 

These are some of the most-popular products on snackandbakery.com—and in homes across the U.S.

I’ve long felt that the food industry presents the best of all worlds. Tradition holds considerable strength in food. A handful of cornerstone companies continue to drive the lion’s share of revenue across snack and bakery.