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Subscribe Rebrand and reintroduce: UK’s Eat Real outlines second attempt to enter China with clean and healthy snacks By Guan Yu Lim The makers of UK-based healthy snack brand Eat Real is planning to launch into China later this year, its second attempt at cracking the highly lucrative market. Eat Real first entered China around two years ago, and retracted in 2020 after finding it difficult to break the market. It was wo...

5 Health benefits of makhana that makes it the perfect choice for healthy snacking This desi Indian snack is gaining popularity for its addictive taste and multiple health benefits that come along with it. Here are 5 health benefits of makhana that you need to know to make a healthy choice. Written By 5 Health benefits of makhana that makes it the perfect choice for healthy snacking Makhana is also known as fox nuts or lotus seeds that are mostly consumed as a healthy sna...

Subscribe FREE BROADCAST EVENT: Hear the European Snacks Association, Mars Edge and more discuss active nutrition and healthy snacking By Oliver Morrison Register now for FoodNavigator’s FREE broadcast summit, Positive Nutrition: Healthy Innovation for the Mass Market. Over four days of content, we’ll examine how innovation can be leveraged to deliver population health benefits and tap into rising demand for healthier f...

ReGrained proves mainstream market appeal for upcycled foods With a new puffs line in several points of distribution, a line of baking mixes in the works, and plans to convert oat milk byproduct into finished product applications later this year, ReGrained is building a case for the mainstream viability for upcycled foods. Defined by ReGrained​​ is one of the founding member companies), upcycled foods use ingredients that otherwise would not have gone to human c...

Oishii closes $50m Series A funding, sees itself as the ‘Tesla’ of strawberry vertical farming Oishii, a vertical farm growing Japanese omakase strawberries with 2-3x the sweetness of conventional US-grown strawberries, has closed $50m in Series A funding led by SPARX Group to scale its business for mass market consumption. The $50m investment from SPARX Group’s Mirai Creation Fund II – a fund established by Toyota Motor Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking C...

Subscribe Investing in the Future of Food: VMG Partners raises $850m to invest in CPGs with potential to be iconic By Elizabeth Crawford Known for its strong track record of helping emerging brands, like KIND, Bare Snacks and Spindrift, become household names, private equity firm VMG Partners is on the lookout once again for new investment opportunities after securing $850m for its Growth Fund V. As in the past, VMG’s Gr...

Health campaigners call for ‘honest’ labelling on so-called healthy snacks Researchers at Action on Salt are demanding a restriction on the use of what it calls misleading nutrition claims on HFSS products after its new data revealed seemingly ‘healthy’ snacks contain often higher salt levels than crisps and flavoured nuts. The group analysed 118 snacks including dried/roasted pulses and processed pulse snacks such as lentil curls, chickpea chips and puffs, �...

Kroger is expanding its partnership with vertical indoor farming company, 80 Acres Farms, to provide fresh produce to more Midwest consumers.

Smoothie Bowls bring ‘optionality’ to KIND’s breakfast line up for ‘flexible workforce of the future’ With today’s launch of a line of ready-to-eat frozen Smoothie Bowls, KIND Healthy Snacks promises to shake-up the fast-growing $3.7b frozen breakfast category while also diversifying its portfolio beyond the on-the-go bars with which it made its name to better serve consumers who increasingly are eating at home. Featuring a frozen blend of fruit and almon...

Even as consumers seek ingredients that promise to boost their immunity, reduce their stress and support their well-being, sales of functional foods and beverages were held back in 2020 compared to organic due to shifting shopping preferences away from the categories in which they are concentrated, according to data presented at New Hope Network’s virtual Spark Brand Success conference this week.