Food Industry News, Insights, and Education for the CPG Community

This week, we’re sipping on Billy Corgan’s finest $19.79 smoothie – while waiting for our veg-encrusted salmon smashburger to cook.

In this week’s notable new products roundup, Eggo and Babybel celebrate the fifth and final season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” M&M’s taps into the freeze-tried candy craze, and Magnolia Table debuts a line of frozen baked goods.

Since its springtime debut, Smash Kitchen has expanded nationwide into Walmart, Sprouts Farmers Market and Erewhon and launched over a dozen items ranging from organic ketchup to pure avocado oil.

Volumes were down for PepsiCo in Q3 as the company updates its snack brands to align with better-for-you trends.

Whole Foods Market is ready for the new year, this week unveiling its annual Food and Beverage Trend forecast for 2026.

In this reviews roundup, we nosh on Pocket’s Chocolates’ riff on the Dubai chocolate trend, Porta’s line of premium pizzas and Siete’s new potato chip flavors.

This week on the podcast, Nosh managing editor Monica Watrous and senior reporter Lukas Southard dig into Walmart’s decision to remove synthetic dyes from its store-branded products. The team goes on to discuss how certain brands are repositioning in the plant-based cheese category, the abrupt closure of Nor-Cal Beverage and the data behind the high-protein craze.

DDC Enterprise Limited, which does business as DayDayCook, has raised a whopping $124 million in equity financing – but it doesn’t seem likely that much, if any, of it will be put into the Hong Kong-based company’s recent CPG acquisitions.

A2 dairy-based brand Alec’s Ice Cream has raised an $11 million Series A round to support farmers building regenerative supply chains and accelerate growth.

Gluten-free bread brand Pacha is launching a sourdough tortilla line after scaling its sprouted buckwheat products in Whole Foods.

West Coast seafood industry group Positively Groundfish has launched an accelerator to help rebuild a market for the fishery’s species.

The Plant Based Seafood Co. this month is launching SMASH it! Foods, a new line of Superfood Salmon Balls.

McCormick is caught in the middle of all of the current headwinds, but the true impact of all of those external forces have yet to be realized on the business, executive claim.

Magnolia Table is stepping beyond its restaurant roots and into the world of packaged food with a frozen baked goods collection.