Coconut water remains a growing segment of the beverage category. As Beverage Marketing Corp. explains, young adults are embracing the beverage; the company calls teens the kind the kind of consumers “used to searching for alternative health solutions.”
Mediterranean Snack Foods Company has added Lentil Crackers to its Mediterranean Baked line. Promising to be gluten-free and featuring 6% of the recommended daily allowance of iron, the ingredient legend touts vegetable oil in the form of olive oil and/or sunflower oil and/or palm fruit oil.
For its launch of a healthier take on sausage, Creta Farms removed a portion of the animal fat and replaced it with extra virgin olive oil. As a result of the reformulation, the sausages have up to 24% fewer calories and up to 53% less saturated fat than similar products.
The holidays can be a time for indulging and, in some cases, overindulging. Alcoholic beverages, alone, can have as many as 600 calories per serving; one recent launch in the segment is a calorie-conscious, yet quite adult, beverage.
More and more products are appearing tailored for single or two servings, whether the results of efforts at portion control or simply targeting consumers with smaller households.
For its latest take on the iconic Oreo, developers at Kraft Foods in the U.S. had only to look south, way south, for inspiration. In Argentina, Oreo x3 (pronounced “por tres”) was introduced in 2010 and featured three layers of cookie and two layers of creme.
The notion of an easily prepared lunch option has flourished again, as cash- and time-strapped consumers have cut back on their dining out during the mid-day meal.