Healthy snacking
Healthy snacking is on the rise in China, with Chinese consumers eating more nuts, seeds, fresh fruit, vegetables and dairy based snacks, new research shows, while more than a quarter of them are eating less chocolate confectionery.
Sweet success
Almost 38,000 trade visitors from over 140 countries attended ISM in Germany from 29 January to 1 February, with 1,647 exhibitors from 68 countries.
Business, Candy & Gum, Chocolate, Functional & Free-from, Packaging, Savoury Snacks, Seasonal
A taste of Japan
Bobbie van de List meets chocolatier Antonio Koji Tsuchiya to talk about his chocolate brand Théobroma.
Good Health debuts vegetable snack
US snack manufacturer Good Health has launched its new Eat Your Vegetables chip line-up.
Soul Sprout releases plant powered snack range
Originally founded as Two Moms in the Raw, Soul Sprout has launched as the new brand offering snacks made with organic, non GMO and raw ingredients.
Top trends in sweets and snacks
It’s useful to track what’s going on in the market place whatever area of the confectionery sector you work in.
Business, Candy & Gum, Functional & Free-from, Packaging, Savoury Snacks
Healthier freeze dried snacks
Introduced by The Premium Snack Company, Nothing But’s freeze dried fruit and vegetable snack packs are available in six flavours and offer a healthy option in a sector traditionally dominated by sweets, crisps and nuts.
Whatever next
Innovation remains a key feature of the global confectionery market.
Packed with punch
Quintessentially British crisp company Corkers has announced its move into the vegetable crisp market with the launch of a new variant; made with root vegetables unearthed from the rich soil of the fenlands, twice cooked and naturally flavoured. Drawing on its experience in potato farming since the 1800s, the crisp company is turning its hand […]
Gluten free snack crackers
A brand new range of gluten free crackers is being launched in the UK, offering a tasty and unique, healthy snack. American snack brand RW Garcia is introducing a new line of 3 Seed Crackers. Packed full of healthy ingredients, the range comes in three varieties – Sweet Potato, Kale and Beetroot. All of the […]
Dried fruit and veg snacks
IbisWorld has published a report entitled ‘Dried fruit and vegetable snack production in the US: market research report’ to its offering. According to IbisWorld, growing health consciousness and improved consumer incomes have boosted demand for premium healthy snacks. Dried fruit and vegetable snack manufacturers have benefited over the past five years from improving economic conditions and shifting […]
Global snack market
Virginia Garavaglia, global brand footprint director, Kantar Worldpanel, provides an update on the market for snack products around the world.
Nothing but fruit
Three fruit snacks have been added to the Nothing But freeze dried snack range – with a single packet providing a convenient and easy way for people to eat one of their ‘five a day’ fruit or vegetable portions. The new snacks launched by The Premium Snack Company are strawberry & banana, pineapple & grape […]
New desserts range
Classic Cuisine, a UK-based frozen food manufacturer, has launched a new range of desserts. The new range includes a raspberry ripple meringue roulade, a sweet and salty caramel short cake, a white chocolate parfait with raspberry, a trifle cheesecake and a hazelnut roulade. Classic Cuisine’s new product development chef, Paul Hunt, says, “At Classic Cuisine […]