Adrianne DeLuca

Asian frozen food brand Laoban is readying to launch its third line next week, known as Crunchy Bites, just four years after it first expanded beyond restaurants into retail.

After last week’s Make America Health Again Commission released its inaugural report outlining the factors it believes contribute to rising chronic disease among children, the industry’s response has been a mixed bag. We sat down with Jeff Grogg, managing director at JPG Resources, who has worked in food and beverage formulation for over 25 years, to discuss his take on how these findings were presented and where, as an industry, we go from here.

Regionally-sourced frozen fruit producer Seal The Seasons is off to a hot start ahead of summer with three key team members promoted across the organization alongside a new strategic partnership with its longtime packaging supplier, Canada-based Farnell Packaging.

While the natural products industry has been advocating for better-for-you, more nutrient-dense food and beverages since its inception, the federal government’s recent spotlight on longstanding issues has brought complexity and confusion to how these challenges came to be and how they can be reasonably and effectively addressed by industry.

The Make American Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission’s highly-anticipated report outlined the prevalence of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs), food dyes and environmental toxins such as PFAS, microplastics and pesticides, among other factors, as the root causes of rising chronic illness in children.

Food coloring, flavoring and extract producer Sensient published a notice warning the industry that current regulatory pressure to phase out synthetic food colors could result in supply shortages.

Protein needs no introduction to any food category, and particularly not pasta. The protein-enriched pasta market has now converted a legacy, premium player to pump yellow peas into its tradition-entrenched production process.

Spring refreshes are in, and this is a combination you would never want to mix together. Here’s a look at two big image updates including one legacy Asian food player’s consumer awareness efforts and an entrepreneurial yogurt startup’s move to avoid growing confusion.

The spice and seasonings category has traditionally been a slow moving, over-saturated set, but according to NielsenIQ, sales grew 5.8% over the past year and are still heating up. Within that flaming hot rise, Dan O’s today unveiled a new line of blends.

Plant-based smoothie and meal maker Daily Harvest has been acquired by Greek yogurt giant Chobani. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.