US food firm gobbles up trendy meat snack brand
US company Conagra has agreed to acquire meat snacks brand Thanasi Foods LLC for an undisclosed sum.
Archives for March 17, 2017
Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: The rising opportunity for mushrooms in food and beverage
Growing awareness of the powerful health benefits of mushrooms as well as increasing demand for their rich umami flavor, is quickly elevating the ingredient from the lowly status of the occasional pizza topping or meat substitute for vegetarians to one...
Standardization story supports Beet It's US retail launch
British brand Beet It is bringing the benefits of its beet juice products to the US with a nation wide retail launch to accompany its existing online sales.
Synbio ingredients have vast market penetration, new list shows
Synthetic biology, or GMO 2.0 as some are calling it, has vastly more penetration in the marketplace than was previously believed. That’s the takeaway from the assembly of the first list of such ingredients.
High cheese consumption does not raise cholesterol levels, Irish study suggests
Despite the link between cheese consumption and saturated fat levels, a study has observed little effect between the amount of cheese eaten and a person’s cholesterol levels.
Video dispatches from Expo West 2017
Barnana CMO: 'We tested banana brittle for eight months before we took it to market'
Barnana carved out virgin territory in the healthy snacks segment with its chewy banana bites, but will its new banana brittle prove equally groundbreaking? FoodNavigator-USA caught up with chief marketing officer Nik Ingersoll at the Expo West show to...