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After four-and-a-half years in business, custom-blended cooking oil brand Chefs Life has shut down amid industry-wide pressures.

AQUA Cultured Foods has shut down, according to a LinkedIn post by co-founder and CEO Brittany Chibe. The Chicago-based startup officially concluded operations last month after what she called “an ambitious run building the future of sustainable seafood.”

Despite a weak performance from Atkins, the Simply Good Foods Company expressed confidence in its ability to reaccelerate topline growth and rebuild margins through its Quest and OWYN brands in its first-quarter earnings report released today.

The USDA will be required to revise parts of its National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard after judges in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated several “loopholes” that plaintiffs argued would have misled consumers.

Starbucks is doubling down on protein, adding Khloud popcorn, the protein-enhanced brand started by celebrity Khloé Kardashian, to its store offerings.

Consumer products house The DropOut Companies is expanding its frozen handhelds portfolio and entering the breakfast daypart with the Target-exclusive launch of Bronco breakfast bagels this month.

Roughly seven months after its acquisition by Chobani, Daily Harvest is relaunching its direct-to-consumer business with a new collection of smoothies, elixirs and oat bowls, and eliminating its subscription requirement.

Plant-based seafood brand Konscious Foods has shuttered its business, citing “unforeseen changes in U.S.-Canada trade relations and headwinds in the plant-based food sector.”

Roughly seven months after its primary lender pulled two-thirds of the company’s available cash, mycelium-based alt-meat producer Meati has reportedly powered down its Thornton, Colo., plant.

While inflationary pressures have affected how consumers shop to make the most of their budgets – from retail channel to pack size to brand – confectionery industry dollar sales are still growing as shoppers seek to “enhance special moments.”