Fruit Snacks

Trendspotting in 2023: Belly benefitting snacks, Bircher muesli, BBQ chicken breast & bone broth chips, Oktoberfest beer and superfood baking kits

06-Sep-2023 By Gill Hyslop

General Mills revamps its innovation strategy to leverage tiger teams to find, quickly seize opportunities

06-Jun-2022 By Elizabeth Crawford

Even as General Mills adopts an ‘always on’ approach to mergers & acquisitions, it remains dedicated to driving organic growth through innovation by deploying elite tiger teams to identify consumer problems and then develop and test solutions-oriented...

Natural Products Expo West

Fruit snacks without the fruit? Eat the Change’s Cosmic Carrot Chews offer new twist on an old favorite

18-Mar-2022 By Elizabeth Crawford

Despite efforts in recent years to disrupt the roughly $5b fruit snack market with better-for-you options made with more, whole or only fruit, the category remains dominated by legacy products high in added sugars and fillers and low in nutritional value...

FOOD FOR KIDS trailblazer CHUM Fruit Snacks: 'We've got the cleanest ingredient list in the kids fruit snacks category'

21-Nov-2020 By Elaine Watson

CHUM Fruit Snacks founder Benjamin Bartley says parents "want cleaner ingredient lists, a sustainable story, breakthrough benefits not yet seen and above all, originality."

Kind Snacks promotes new line by dumping mountain of sugar in Times Square

23-Aug-2017 By Gill Hyslop

Kind has waged war on sugar-laden snacks by dumping almost 50,000 pounds of sugar in New York City’s Times Square to promote the launch of its all-natural Fruit Bites.

Welch’s fruit snacks are ‘no more healthful than candy’, says false advertising lawsuit

23-Sep-2015 By Elaine Watson

Welch’s fruit snacks are candy masquerading as healthy snacks, says a false advertising lawsuit filed in New York.