X-ray, metal detection, checkweighing and vision systems continue to advance, offering bakery and snack producers many ways to improve their quality control programs. Today's sophisticated inspection equipment can detect smaller foreign objects, reduce false rejects, and handle a wider range of products to assure maximum food safety along with higher productivity.
For people who love pizza for breakfast or breakfast anytime, 7-Eleven, Inc. has introduced a personal-size breakfast pizza, great as either a hearty snack or meal and available morning, noon and night.
Despite pockets of growth at individual companies, the categories spanning fresh bread, including bread, buns and rolls, bagels and English muffins, continue to remain relatively flat.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is extremely useful for snack and bakery companies, including its ability to track ingredients and other tasks, thereby making companies more efficient.
Sugar is now squarely top of mind for consumers. According to the 2019 International Food Information Council (IFIC) "Food & Health" survey, limiting sugar intake is one of the top ways in which consumer diets have changed over the past several years, and 80 percent of consumers are trying to limit and/or avoid added sugars.
Calling on all fans of Flamin’ Hot and Cool Ranch flavors, Doritos, one of the marquee brands from PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay division, is taking these fan favorites up a notch.
In 2015, we launched the "Best New Snack & Bakery Products" of the year contest to honor outstanding new snack and bakery products entering the industry, with the online SF&WB audience voting for their favorites.
Baskin-Robbins is taking the holiday season by storm with its new Reindeer Cake, straight from the North Pole, featuring an adorable reindeer face, chocolate snout and antlers.
The Cheez-It Bowl is just around the corner, and fans better believe that there are more absurdly social, cheese-infused moments taking center stage... other than the actual game, of course.