Earlier this week, Chobani put out an open call for “big-hearted food and beverage startups” that make delicious, nutritious, natural and affordable food to help it “take on the broken food system” by participating in the fifth cohort of its highly competitive...
After becoming a blockbuster hit in Canada – growing from 200 to over 2,500 stores in less than a year – keto snack bar brand, love good fats, will be launching into 450 Whole Foods stores in the US backed by a $5m equity raise from individual investors...
If you could invent a nutrition bar for your brain, what would it look like? If you included clinically significant doses of every ingredient associated with cognitive health, it would probably look pretty expensive, concedes the founder of IQ BAR. But...
Public health advocates are lauding the $876bn Farm Bill passed by an overwhelming majority of the Senate on Tuesday for rejecting controversial proposals in the House version of the bill that would have significantly curtailed access to the nation’s...
Global sales of alkaline water have risen at 18% a year to $631m in 2017: and the category is rapidly heading towards the $1bn milestone, according to Zenith Global.
Building a kids brand can get sticky, especially when the market is full of products that typically fall into two broad buckets: conventional products crowded with mascots, superheroes, and cartoon characters; or the stripped-down, simpler look of the...
Online grocer Peapod’s third annual meal forecasting survey revealed a growing appreciation for home cooked meals and that spending more time in the kitchen cooking healthy dishes is a top resolution for many in 2019.
There is good news in the impending* Farm Bill for industrial hemp – which will be removed from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act - but this does not suddenly make the on-trend ingredient CBD (cannabidiol) legal in foods, beverages and supplements,...
US retail sales of Greek yogurt have been declining over the past two years after a meteoric growth spurt, but there are still pockets of opportunity, particularly in drinkable formats and kids’ products, claims drinkable yogurt brand Pillars, which is...
San Francisco-based JUST - best-known for its plant-based eggs and mayo – has struck a deal with Japanese Wagyu beef producer Toriyama, and meat and seafood supplier Awano Food Group, to develop, sell, and market cell-cultured Wagyu beef products.
Securing sufficient labor – both skilled and unskilled – increasingly is a challenge for the food and beverage industry, but strategies ranging from increased automation to partnering with higher education providers to offering employees incentives beyond...
From the “volatile government situation” to the “crazy acts of nature” across the nation and “senseless hate crimes,” many consumers in the US are feeling uneasy and looking for a way to “escape from some of the badness” by visiting hotels, restaurants...
Uncertainty surrounding the US-China trade war and the renegotiated trade deal with Canada and Mexico are taking a toll on US food and agricultural industries, but experts with Rabobank say there is hope for the future if players take action now to diversify...
It’s good practice to fortify plant-based milks, but consumers don’t expect precise organoleptic or nutritional equivalency with dairy milk, says HP Hood, which is gearing up for a national launch of "full bodied, naturally sweet" oatmilk with...
Mercato, an online ordering and delivery platform for small retailers, has brought on 11 more specialty purveyors to its network ranging from poultry and butcher shops to Russian and French bakeries.
