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The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recognize grains as an important part of a healthy eating pattern. Grain foods provide dietary fiber as well as essential vitamins (i.e., folate, thiamine, niacin, vitamin B6, riboflavin, and vitamin A) and minerals (i.e., iron, zinc, manganese, copper, magnesium, phosphorous, and selenium).

The report predicts busy lives, snack savviness will impact buying in the coming year.

Tortillas are known for their versatility—they can be used in tacos, quesadillas, burritos, and more. It’s no surprise, then, that the tortillas category has been doing well over the past year. 

Although the tortilla category is prospering overall and should continue to do so, labor shortages are prompting producers’ interest in automation—as long as the quality can be kept high—while tortilla consumers have turned toward healthier options and innovative flavors.

Inflation continues to eat away (no pun intended) at the food budgets of the average U.S. consumer. The effects are being felt by all manner of businesses, from restauranteurs serving fewer diners in their establishments to many snack and bakery producers moving fewer units than pre-pandemic days.

The annual American Bakers Association gathering is scheduled April 14-17 in Scottsdale.

An investment firm is acquiring the company from the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board

The supplier predicts the bright purple Asian yam will impact snack, bakery, and other foods.

The newly merged unit will represent numerous pork rind and salty snack labels.

Fun Friday products and news from Home Run Inn, Pop-Tarts, La Brea Bakery, and a company that has invented a chocolate box that will notify you when it's opened.