Food & beverage trends, regulation, labeling, innovation

Headlines

From Honest to Just: Seth Goldman unveils Just Ice Tea… ‘We’ve been in conversation with numerous retailers eager to launch with us’

Barely a month after Coca-Cola announced plans to phase out HONEST Tea, co-founder Seth Goldman, who sold the organic tea brand to Coca-Cola in 2011, says he plans to launch in a few months a new line of bottled organic teas under the ‘Just Ice Tea’ brand.

Can sugary products be described as ‘nutritious’? And how much added sugar is too much? Clif Bar agrees to settle lawsuit with $10.5m fund

Can sugary products be labeled as ‘nutritious’? And how much added sugar is too much? Clif Bar to settle lawsuit with $10.5m fund

Clif Bar – one of a series of CPG brands accused of adding ‘excessive’ amounts of sugar to products marketed as wholesome and nutritious – has agreed to remove the terms ‘nutritious’ and 'nourishing' from selected product labels, and set aside...

Content provided by ADM advances regenerative agriculture

ADM: Earth-Minded, People Focused

ADM’s continuing sustainability initiatives yield measurable results, allowing your food products to tell a captivating story.

Supply chain challenges take center stage as consumer confidence falls, spending shifts

As rising gas and food prices cause US consumers’ confidence and short-term outlook for the economy to plunge, some are shifting their spending habits and the blame from the pandemic to ongoing supply chain costs, constraints and related government policies,...

Frito-Lay: Flavor combinations and discovery drive snacking purchases

Consumers have heightened interest in flavor twists and combinations (e.g. salty & sweet, tangy & spicy) and are less driven by brand recognition and familiarity when it comes to their snacking purchases, finds Frito-Lay North America in its recent...

Content provided by Symrise

Symrise Healthy Lifestyles Initiative: A Study of Modern Functional Health Trends

Symrise interviewed health-minded Millennials, Gen Zs and health experts to find a framework for wellbeing with a shift toward healthy food and beverage ingredients.

Majority of CBD products tested in study found to have at least some THC

A new study that sampled dozens of commercially available CBD products found detectable THC levels in 64% of them. Some levels were high enough to approach therapeutic thresholds or to potentially trigger drug test failures.

Conagra opens new facility to support Birds Eye brand and frozen meals business

Conagra Brands has opened a new 245,000-square-foot 'state-of-the-art' vegetable and rice processing facility to support its growing frozen foods business and national Birds Eye brand.

Nestle, which owns frozen pizza brands Wagner and Buitoni in Europe, has teamed up with NIZO to develop a fat-reduced Edam. GettyImages/NoireChocolate

Nestlé develops ‘healthier’ cheese with research partner NIZO: ‘The fat-reduced cheese is a near-equivalent to full-fat Edam’

Designed for frozen pizza, the fat-reduced Edam has ‘all the flavour, melting behaviour and shreddability’ of the full-fat version.

‘Eclipse’s ice cream is in a league of its own…’ Sozo Ventures leads $40m series B round at plant-based dairy co Eclipse Foods

While the meat alternatives category is suffering from some growing pains, investors’ enthusiasm for dairy alternatives continues unabated, with plant-based dairy specialist Eclipse Foods this week announcing a $40m series B round* led by Sozo Ventures,...

Atomo beanless coffee is made from date seed extract, chicory root extract, grape extract, inulin, and natural flavors. Each 8oz can has 84mg caffeine. Image credit: Atomo Coffee

Coffee… minus the beans? Atomo raises $40m to build out ‘planet-friendly’ beanless coffee business

Atomo Coffee – a Seattle-based startup promising to deliver a more sustainable cup of morning joe (minus the coffee beans) – has raised $40m in a series A round as it launches ready-to-drink ‘beanless’ cold brew coffee direct to consumer, ahead of a retail...

Packaging innovations help wake up sleepy categories by adding fun, convenience

By leveraging packaging innovations that increase fun and flavor while decreasing mess and monotony, startups at the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York this month are waking up sleepy categories, expanding their segments’ traditional user bases and standing...