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SweeTARTS Twisted Rainbow Punch Ropes and SweeTARTS Twisted Mixed Berry Ropes Bites. Both new products offer consumers a multi-faceted candy experience full of vibrant colors and flavors that are rolling out to mass market, grocery and convenience stores nationwide this spring.

Mount Franklin Foods, LLC, a manufacturer of high-quality confections, nut products, mints and culinary plant-based proteins, announces it has acquired, through its affiliate, the assets and book of business from ARRO Food Processing Division, based in Hodgkins, Ill., and ARRO Ingredients Division, headquartered in Chicago.

SMASHGUMMY features only 3g of sugar per serving, and is made without the use of sugar alcohols, stevia, IMO's, or other compromising ingredients and is instead sweetened naturally with organic cane sugar, monk fruit, and allulose.

Fans of the brand’s top-selling 95% Wicked Dark line or rustic Mexican-style Chocolate Discs may be surprised to learn that Taza can create smooth chocolate.

Alter Eco’s commitment to clean ingredients extends from the farm to the final recipe with no corn feed, no GMOs and no refined sugars, soy ingredients or preservatives.

The company stated that production is up and running, and that the product is Kosher certified. However, orders are currently only being taken at Duck Soup or online. The company intends to expand availability across the country early next year.

While often playing center stage, chocolate and vanilla require extra finesse when used in formulations, as each is a complex ingredient composed of dozens of different volatile chemicals and subjected to multiple stages of processing.

English Toffee Peanut will officially join the M&M'S line-up in stores. It features the combination of sweet toffee and savory peanut, covered in milk chocolate and wrapped in the brand's signature colorful crispy shell.

The cocoa mass for Tony's chocolate is 100% traceable with cocoa beans that were purchased directly from partner cooperatives in Ghana and Ivory Coast.

Confections and snacks both vie for the same "share of stomach," but the fortunes of the two camps have moved in opposite directions in recent years with snacks ascending and confectionery reeling.