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Hoping to capitalize the healthier eating trend, Planters teams with a magazine brand to win adult shoppers with Planters Nut-rition Men's Health Recommended Mix.

According to the website, ideafinder.com, we consume more than 4.3 billion lb. of snack food a year, which could be why snacks may soon end up becoming America’s favorite meal.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report in February that reconfirms what most adults already know: A majority of Americans consume too much sodium. Too much sodium can increase the risk of high blood pressure, which often leads to heart disease and strokes. Processed and restaurant-prepared foods contain the most sodium of the foods people eat.

In order to align the company’s workforces around the world, Rich Products implements a new organizational structure and forms a U.S./Canada region. Separately, Blue Diamond Growers constructs a 200,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing plant in Turlock, Calif.

A comprehensive, global report from Global Industry Analysts, Inc., indicates that the global snack foods market is poised to reach $380 billion by 2017, driven mostly by changing consumer demographics and affluence levels.

Kraft Foods says it recalled 3,000 cases of Planters Cocktail peanuts ‘to be on the safe side.’ The company says the peanuts, in 12-oz. canisters, may have come into contact with water that wasn’t cleared for food production purposes.

For Planters peanuts, sustainability has been a core part of the business for some time. To reduce its impact on the environment through packaging changes, the brand looks to a new plastic container to further its heritage of sustainability.

It’s already three months in to 2012, which means some of those New Year’s Resolutioners have already caved back into their old ways. The gym is less crowded, and diet plans are already becoming “so last year.”

Orville Redenbacher’s Pop Up Bowl for popcorn was a top winner in the 2012 FPA Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards. Chosen from 86 entries in 126 competition categories, the winners include 25 packages that received 31 Achievement Awards for packaging excellence, printing achievement, technical innovation, and environmental and sustainability achievement.