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Despite significant gains in recent years, mass-market adoption of plant-based meat, seafood, eggs and dairy remains limited by taste and pricing-related challenges, according to the Good Food Institute’s (GFI) State of the Industry report.

In this week’s notable new products roundup, Brightland announces the launch of its Pizza Oil, ONE Bar pays homage to a lunchbox favorite with its newest flavor and The Republic of Tea commemorates the premiere of Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.

In this week’s notable new products roundup, Kraft Heinz teams up with musician Ed Sheeran to launch a new hot sauce, Ben & Jerry’s takes inspiration from a classic global treat and Babybel releases its first new flavor since 2014.

The vegan cheese market has aged; enough so that conventional dairy cheese makers are looking to the category as an opportunity to innovate. But can these products help solidify the category’s long term growth?

In this week’s roundup of notable new products, Chamberlain Coffee makes its first foray into the coffee pod category, San-Francisco based restaurant Flour + Water enters CPG and Ben & Jerry’s takes a cue from Hollywood for its newest ice cream innovation.

Bel Group – maker of Babybel, Boursin and The Laughing Cow brands – is partnering with food technology company Standing Ovation to use the startup’s animal-free, casein milk proteins to develop new cheese alternatives.

In this week’s Checkout: The Bel Group and Superbrewed team up on biomass fermented proteins; a new report from Boston Consulting Group emphasizes the positives of alt-protein investments; Siete Foods opens round two of its Juntos Fund; and Smithfield settles another price-fixing lawsuit.

In this distribution roundup: Mason Dixie Foods partners with Marriott Select Brand Hotels, Rob’s Backstage Popcorn rolls out at retail, Klimon debuts at Walmart, Meli’s Cookies launch at Costco and more.

In Taste Radio’s final episode of 2021, the hosts spoke about why entrepreneurs launching new and innovative concepts need to consider the addressable market for their brands and products going into 2022. They also discussed the news that a high-profile kombucha company has leapt into the growing pool of probiotic sodas, a fast-growing snack brand’s recent raise and a number of notable products that crossed their respective desks over the past week.

Seventy-four percent of millennial parents now include their kids in household purchase decisions, a number significantly higher than their Gen X counterparts, and one that is contributing to shifting snack time dynamics.

Families are snacking now more than ever – at work, at home, with the kids, alone in the car or even late at night. In fact, the percentage of Americans who say they snack two to three times per day increased from 50 percent in 2015 to 55 percent in 2017