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

Rising cocoa costs and concerns about long-term supply resilience are accelerating interest in alternative chocolate ingredients. Manufacturer Barry Callebaut put the issue front and center at the Sweets & Snacks Expo last week through its expanding partnership with German foodtech startup Planet A Foods.

Cookie brand Fields Good is targeting different day parts and use occasions for its functional indulgence products.

At the Sweets & Snacks Expo in Las Vegas last week, new offerings from brands like Awake, Buzz Bomb and Alert Pop underscored just how far the caffeine category is stretching beyond the beverage aisle.

Campo Grande is betting American consumers are ready to rethink pork – not as the “other white meat” as it’s been pitched in the past, but as a premium, chef-driven protein more akin to Wagyu beef.

Israeli biotechnology company Phytolon has nabbed $23.6 million in fresh funding to commercialize its fermentation-based natural color solutions in the U.S. amid growing demand for alternatives to synthetic dyes.

WILDE Brands, known for its chips made with chicken breast, egg whites and bone broth, is hatching a plan to create a much broader protein snacking platform.

This week, we’re investigating the messy middle from $2M to $20M revenue, baking up a storm as an English muffin insurgent takes on the segment incumbent, and dry heaving over a can of rocket pop beans. Hey, what more could you ask for?

Khloe Kardashian’s protein snack brand Khloud Foods has raised $15 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Heartland Food Products Group announced its intention to acquire the Americas business of Whole Earth Brands, makers of Equal.

SNAX-Sational Brands is doubling down on two fast-moving trends in the snack aisle with the debut of Chiquita-branded Plantain Chips and a Guy Fieri microwave popcorn line.

David Protein, the bar brand founded by RXBAR creator Peter Rahal, is expanding its line of wild caught fish with Cod 2, a canned cod product intended to complement the flash frozen filet line it launched last year.

Better-for-you candy purveyor Rotten is entering a new phase of growth with two new innovations and accelerating retail momentum.

Healthy, but not too healthy. That’s the gist of the products that made this year’s edition of Circana’s 2025 New Product Pacesetters.

In this week’s new product roundup, JiMMYBAR! Expands its creatine line, COB goes deeper into salty snacks, GoGo Squeez extends into new formats and functions and more.