Adrianne DeLuca

After eight years in business, Lauren Chew’s vegan, gluten-free superfood cookie brand Love + Chew is still going. But as consumer interests shift from health-forward to clean label, permissible indulgence, she has begun building a second cookie brand to meet those demands.

Allergen-friendly cookie maker Heavenly Hunks is moving beyond the category for the first time and extending deeper into the inclusive eating space through a new sub-brand, Dupe Loops.

Impossible Foods has brought its plant-based protein platform into U.K. retail stores for the first time.

Non-UPF Verified is bringing consumers into the ultraprocessed food (UPF) conversation with the release of a new app that features a barcode scanner to check a product’s verification status – and to request that an item become verified if it isn’t already.

Kosterina introduced its first collaborative product this week as it works to build an olive oil platform that plays across food, supplements and beauty.

Children’s meal and snack platform Cerebelly announced today it has made its first acquisition, buying up freeze-dried kids snack brand Fresh Bellies.

A veteran CPG operator and Michelin star chef have teamed up to reinvigorate the shelf-stable meal kits space with Riff, a shelf-stable meal kit line launching at Target stores nationwide.

Another cohort of CPG companies – General Mills, Kellanova, Mars, and McKee Foods, the producer of Little Debbie snacks – have sued several U.S. sugar companies, alleging they colluded to inflate the cost of refined sugar.

Beyond Meat is launching a new “plant-powered” portfolio known as Phytosphere, marking the occasion by entering new categories including protein powders and savory protein bars.

La Molisana sued the U.S. government in International Trade Court, defending lupini pasta brand Brami with the goal of securing the product an exclusion from anti-dumping duties.