Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery continues to expand its content lineup with the addition of features on Sanitation in every issue, plus a new column from ABA on Workforce Development.

From Tuscanini, maker of genuine brick wood oven personal pizzas, authentic home-style sauces, and hand-crafted biscotti, comes Tuscanini Parchment Crackers, paper-thin treats imported from the idyllic island of Sardinia off the sunny Italian coast.

HannahMax Cookie Chips are sweet like a cookie, crispy like a chip. The Cookie Chips come in two flavors: Sea Salt Caramel, and Coconut White Chocolate.

All-natural, gluten-free Pizootz peanuts are grown in Virginia and boiled in a variety of marinades made of all-natural ingredients, leaving no flavored powders or residues all over your fingers when you eat them.

Made in Nature, the leading producer of organic dried fruits and Delicious Living’s 2017 Best Bite Award Winner, announced its latest creation to expand the Figgy Pop family: Organic Nut Butter Filled Figgy Pops.

In early May, KIND Snacks held a "Raise the Bar" contest, where consumers had the opportunity to vote on four flavors they’d love to see from KIND: Sangria, Sesame Seaweed, Sweet Pretzel Crunch and Spiced Fig.

At its core, eating quality seals the deal on the repeat purchase of a snack. Those of us in the industry might rank a snack’s hedonistic level—the level of pleasure consumption delivers. Snacks can also face organoleptic scrutiny, determining its positive (or negative) interactions with our senses.

The chips market has grown highly diversified over the past several years. In 2017, a chip can run the gamut, including standard potato chips, chips made out of fruits or vegetables, and multigrain options.

Manufacturers of tortilla and tostada chips continue to expand the boundaries of their offerings, in terms of both more imaginative flavors and attempts to address consumer concerns about the healthfulness of a category traditionally known for corn, salt and carbs.

The versatile puffed and extruded snack segment is answering the call of consumers who want to try different flavor profiles and combinations. On the traditional side, products such as Cheetos continue to prosper in the marketplace. In fact, total annual sales for cheese snacks just reached $2.1 billion. Through a balance of tradition and forward-thinking innovation, this segment represents the best of both worlds.