Ready-to-eat (RTE) popcorn continues to find a willing audience at both ends of the dietary spectrum, with both health-forward and indulgent options seeing growth.
The new Real Butter Tastes Better line of microwave popcorn, which features Quinn Snacks' patented Pure Pop bag, is made with grass-fed clarified butter and absolutely no “flavorings.”
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.
Verso Corporation, a leading producer of flexible packaging, technical, and label and converting papers, introduced GlazeArmorMicro, a bleached, uncoated machine-glazed paper with oil and grease resistance (OGR) that is specifically designed for microwave popcorn bag applications.
Consumers continue to move away from kernel and microwave popcorn as ready-to-eat options offer more better-for-you ingredients, innovative flavors and convenience.
The American Pop Corn Co. has taken an already better-for-you snack—popcorn—and made it even better. The company’s new JOLLY TIME Butter and Butter Light Microwave Pop Corn are made with Smart Balance.
ConAgra’s Orville Redenbacher brand is shaking up the microwave popcorn segment with Orville Redenbacher’s Flavors, individually wrapped bags of popcorn that come with a separate seasoning packet of White Cheddar, Extra Cheese or Sea Salt and Vinegar.