Snacking: Consumers want more than guilty pleasure

Snacks crept in from the dark shadows of guilty pleasure to grab a dominant and even bold role in America’s dining habits. Far from the furtive midnight refrigerator raids of yore, snacking’s ubiquitous presence is actually shifting the classic structure of three meals per day. According to Technomic’s 2018 Snacking Occasion Consumer Trend Report, many consumers are replacing at least one daily meal with snacks, while some might replace two…