Clean Label - Articles - Page 10 | Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery

New formulation strategies for bakery snacks

Developers of bakery snacks seek differentiation to drive growth

April 11, 2019

Bakery snacks saw a relatively flat year per IRI, Chicago, with 0.16 percent growth to $3.4 billion. Grupo Bimbo far outperformed the category average, though, with growth of 14.48 percent to $249.4 million.

Sun & Swell Foods launches compostable packaging

April 11, 2019

Sun & Swell Foods, a Benefit Corporation and leading clean snack food company, has officially launched compostable packaging, making it one of the first snack companies in the US market to do so.

Expanding solutions for clean label snack and bakery R&D

As the definition of clean label continues to expand, ingredient suppliers provide an array of solutions

Melissa Kvidahl Reilly

March 19, 2019

Buckle up. The top trend driving innovation in the snack and bakery industries has no formal definition, isn't regulated, and is shifting all of the time. Yes, clean label demands are touching every facet of the food industry, from formulation to packaging and marketing, and everything in between.

Spreading omega awareness

Douglas J. Peckenpaugh

March 5, 2019

Many people have heard about omega-3s, and even the omega-6s in sources like flax and hemp oils. But what about omega-9s?

Almonds in Nashville: Food trends tour

Liz Parker Kuhn

February 27, 2019

A few weeks ago, I was able to fly to Nashville for a few days to participate in the Almond Board of California's annual food trends tour.

Lehi Valley Trading Co. grows its private label snack business

Lehi Valley Trading Co. finds strong growth in private label snacking

Douglas J. Peckenpaugh

February 15, 2019

Over the last 30-plus years since establishing Lehi Valley, the family has significantly expanded the different types of snacks offered, primarily working with retailers across the U.S. on their private label lines of caramel corn and popcorn, puffed corn snacks, snack mixes, nuts, granola, and more. Freeman and his wife, Trecia, purchased the business outright in 2000, and have steadily expanded the company’s manufacturing footprint ever since.

Snack and bakery companies focus on sweetener selection to reduce added sugar

Joyce Friedberg

January 3, 2019

In an ongoing shift, consumers are increasingly more cognizant of the amount and type of sugar and other sweeteners in their products.

Ardent Mills looks back on a year of grain innovation and trends

December 27, 2018

As 2018 winds down, Ardent Mills, a North American flour supplier and grain innovator, looks back at some grain-based culinary trends that emerged this year.