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Vaca Chips Raises $5.6M For Second Investment This Year
Beef tallow tortilla chip brand Vaca Chips has raised a fresh $5.6 million, led by Barrel Ventures, after raising $1.5M over the summer.
How PIM Brands Built A Custom AI Manufacturing Platform
PIM Brands, the makers of Welch’s Fruit Snacks, has integrated a custom AI manufacturing system to streamline production across its portfolio.
Newtopia Now: Traditional Cuisine And Clean Fats
At Newtopia Now 2026, food brands leaned deeper into seed-oil-free, clean fats and authentic flavors from South Asia and the Middle East.
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CLIF Kid Unveils the Fruits (and Veggies) of Their Labor with New Zbar Fruit + Veggie Bars
CLIF Kid, maker of organic snacks for active kids, is introducing a new addition to the CLIF Kid family – CLIF Kid Zbar® Fruit + Veggie. This certified USDA organic snack not only contains whole grains, but also a blend of fruit puree concentrate and vegetable powders that deliver the taste kids want, with the nutrition parents desire.
Truly Good Foods Reveals New Packaging and Branding for Snack Line
Truly Good Foods – a leading snack food provider – is relaunching their popular line of York’s Harvest Garden Chips with new branding and fresh packaging. Garden Chips debuted a new logo and packaging that better evokes the healthier lifestyle of the brand.
Enjoy Life Foods Unveils New Look for Plentils
Enjoy Life Foods, the leading brand in the growing Free-From category, announced a fresh, exciting look for its allergy-friendly line of Plentils, which highlights the lentil-based chips’ crunchy, craveable flavors and premium ingredient panel that is free-from the top eight food allergens.
Meat Snacks Still Giving Food Industry Lots to Chew On
Over the past year, the meat-based snacking category has continued to grow with new innovations, new brands and lots of investments. While the meat may be, the category itself is far from dried up. In fact, it’s still smoking.
Enjoy Life Foods Debuts New Protein-Packed Power Snacks and Grab & Go Mini Cookies
Enjoy Life Foods, the leading brand in the growing Free-From category, is launching a dynamic new portfolio of delicious, allergy-friendly bite-size snacks, including a decadent line of plant-based protein-packed ProBurst Bites™ and smaller, snack-size versions of the company’s already beloved cookies: Soft-Baked Cookie Minis and Crunchy Cookie Minis.
Snackable Wine Grape Company Raizes $1 Million for RayZyn Line
The Wine RayZyn Company announced that they’ve raised over $1 million to help develop the next superfood snack product. The company has a patented process that dehydrates grapes and caramelizes the nutrient rich wine seed in the grape’s own sugar.
Healthy Snack Products Offer Consumers New Options
While consumers may be trying to eat healthier then ever, snacking hasn’t gone anywhere. Chips, dips and cookies haven’t gone anywhere, they may just look a little different with the additions of superfoods, fermented products and yes, even crickets. The following slide show looks at many of the trends influencing the snack category.
Simple Mills Launches Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cracker Line
Following the success of its natural baking mixes, which have held the #1 spot in sales per point of distribution in the category for the last year, Simple Mills is extending its reach beyond the baking aisle with a new line of almond flour crackers.
Biena Gives the Snack Industry a ‘Pulse’ with Rockin’ Ranch Roasted Chickpeas
Always hungry to meet the challenge of creating a better-for-you snack that also satisfies and satiates, Biena combines the humble chickpea with the spirit of snacking innovation with its debut of Rockin’ Ranch, the latest in its line of award-winning Roasted Chickpea Snacks.
Big Infestment: Insect Protein Brand Exo Lands $4 Million Round
Yesterday, insect-based protein snack bar company Exo Foods announced the closing of a $4 million Series A investment round led by CPG incubator and private equity fund AccelFoods. Also investing in the round were a pair of venture capital funds, Start Garden and the Collaborative Fund, as well as celebrities like the author Tim Ferriss, the rap artist NAS and the endurance athlete Amelia Boone.