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Shares One of the best things about chocolate is that it’s always chocolate season. Whether you’re celebrating, commiserating, or just feeling the pangs of a sweet craving, chocolate always helps, and it’s always within reach. Yes, we live in a world with an abundance of vegan chocolatiers, but sometimes you just need to grab a bar off a shelf at the grocery store. We’ve compiled a list of 25 non-vegan chocolate brands that are doing vegan right. Let the chocolate tour begin.  Comparte...

by Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business — April 27, 2021 . Beyond Meat is replacing its signature plant-based burger with a version designed to taste more like animal beef. The newest recipe, which will eventually replace the current product, removes mung beans — a protein-rich legume — from the ingredient list and adds some vitamins and minerals to make the product taste meatier and more closely mirror the nutrients found in beef. It also has fewer calories (230 instead of 260) and less...

Beyond Meat is launching a new meatless burger it says tastes more like real beef Beyond Meat is replacing its signature plant-based burge... Posted: Apr 27, 2021 8:51 AM Posted By: CNN Beyond Meat is replacing its signature plant-based burger with a version designed to taste more like animal beef. The newest recipe, which will eventually replace the current product, removes mung beans — a protein-rich legume — from the ingredient list and adds some vitamins and minerals to make the produ...

More growth expected amid strong demand and ongoing innovation, despite a shift to focus on core items Consumer demand for products that meet the requirements of specific diets, especially keto and paleo, have continued to be a driver of better-for-you offerings in center store during the past year. Despite widespread outages of certain center store items in 2020 and the culling of certain niche products, grocery retailers and distributors foresee the lingering supply-chain challenges eve...

Kroger Invites Customers to Mail In Flexible Plastic Packaging to Make New Recycled Products (Credit: Kroger Co.) The Kroger Co. is offering customers a way to recycle flexible plastic packaging in what the grocer says is the first program of its kind. The “Kroger Our Brands Recycling Program,” developed in partnership with TerraCycle, encourages customers to mail in flexible plastic Kroger-brands packaging. Once received, the collected packaging will be cleaned and melted into hard plasti...

Dive Brief: Amazon has unveiled Aplenty, a new private label food brand set to eventually include hundreds of products across a variety of center store categories, the retailer said in an email Monday morning. The brand, which is available online and at Amazons Fresh grocery stores, launched with items including twice-baked parmesan, garlic and herbs pita chips; slow-baked cornbread crackers; and salted caramel chip mini cookies. ​Amazon is expanding its lineup of house brands amid a deepenin...

Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ:BBBY) are all solid businesses trading at absurdly cheap valuations right now, and could be worth buying. Image source: Getty Images. Benefiting from the pandemic Kroger typically doesnt experience high sales growth, but its a stable business with an above-average-yielding dividend. It trades at only 11.5 times trailing 12-month earnings, and there are reasons to be optimistic about the supermarket operators future. In 2020, its comparable sales grew by 14% as customer...

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Is store-bought rotisserie chicken good for you? Some chicken contains a lot of sodium Tags:  SAN ANTONIO – Warm and ready to eat, rotisserie chickens sold at supermarkets are tasty, convenient and inexpensive. And while chicken is healthy protein, some store-bought rotisserie birds contain a lot of sodium. “To keep the birds moist and tasty, they are often injected with a solution that can include sugar, processed ingredients and, unfortunately, a lot of sodium,” said Consumer Reports n...

Executives break down strategic game plan in Investor Day event The Kroger Co. detailed this year’s strategic growth plan — led by fresh foods and digital — at its virtual 2021 Investor Day conference. Chairman and CEO Rodney McMullen told analysts and investors yesterday that Cincinnati-based Kroger aims to deliver a total shareholder return of 8% to 11% annually, backed by a financial model that now includes a higher operating profit base and a “clear path” to earnings growth...