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

Tender Food is rebranding and expanding into additional categories following a new $6.5 million funding round. Under its new name Lasso, the Boston-based startup will commercialize its patented food processing technology for applications in high-protein snacks and pet food.

Premium tinned seafood brand Fishwife is taking a bite out of the Big Apple with a Snack Bar + Shop pop-up centered around brand collaboration. Plus, the latest campaigns from Issei, Zoup!, Ferrero and others.

A color additive industry trade group is suing the state of West Virginia, seeking to overturn a state law banning the use of FD&C colors in food and beverage products.

The cooking shortcut category’s newest entrant is Onoin, a collection of shelf-stable, pre-chopped, par-cooked flavored onions in 100% olive oil.

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.