The recently released Harvard study on the health benefits of eating nuts just confirmed what health conscious-consumers already tell us, that nuts are good for you, reports The NPD Group, a leading global information company....
The world's largest snack maker is widening its own market by mixing sweet with salty in its snacks - and is rolling out chocolate-covered Lay's Wavy chips for the American year-end holidays....
The nutrition bars sector continues to enjoy rising levels of interest, in line with or even ahead of the market for cereal bars as a whole. Growth in the sector has reflected rising interest in healthy and convenient snacks suitable for consumption on-the-go, reports Innova....
With snacking the predominant consumption trend in the US, there was an ebullient mood at last week's annual National Confectioners Association's Sweets & Snacks Expo in Chicago. Marketers showed off more than 2 000 new offerings in a trade show that covers three acres...
Fresh fruit is not only the top snack food consumed in America, it is also one of the fastest growing, according to new snacking research from The NPD Group, a leading global information company. NPD’s recently released Snacking in America report finds that...
SAD Safari has gone the trendy route of 'heat' and umami in the snacking arena, with the introduction of a new range of choice-grade Marmite and Wasabi peanuts and cashews. ...
Popcorn, outside of the US, is perhaps best known as the stuff that cinemas entice patrons to eat while openly fleecing them. But aside from those salty, sweet, unhealthy and obscenely-priced bucketloads, it is now one of the fastest-growing segments in the UK's highly competitive...
Now here's a snack launch that must have been a challenge for a team of flavourists: creating Guinness crisps and conveying the strong, bitter-sweet flavour of Irish stout....
Despite ongoing economic difficulties, new product activity in the global snackfoods industry appears to be continuing unabated. Launch numbers recorded by Innova Market Insights showed a strong double-digit increase in 2011. Savoury and salty snacks accounted for just under two-thirds of the total, and snack...
Hershey is punching tiny holes in its iconic candy bar. Nestle is bringing Skinny Cow to the candy aisle. Wrigley is coming out with apple pie gum. Mars is stuffing vitamins and minerals into snack bars. And Jelly Belly is bringing back rotten-egg jelly beans....