Better-for-you snacks are positioned as healthier than conventional snacks, based on health claims and characterizations that consumers perceive as important to health such as clean label, low fat, low sodium, plant-based, and low/no added sugar.
September 16, 2021More than half of the U.S. salty snacks market is controlled by PepsiCo, according to the Packaged Facts report “Salty Snacks: U.S. Market Trends and Opportunities”
July 12, 2018Marketers are aggressively trying to spur and meet demand for what many consumers look for in cheese: dairy goodness, indulgence, and new flavor experiences.
June 18, 2018Investments in branding, marketing, and distribution help to explain the growing popularity of pistachios.
May 7, 2018Americans living in urban areas are the biggest fans of alternative ingredient snacks, even more so than people who live in suburban areas and far more than those living in rural settings. The differences are most pronounced for pulse- and seaweed-based snacks, but the pattern holds true for every type of alternative ingredient salty snack and cracker; rural snackers are just less interested.
March 2, 2017Popcorn—especially ready-to-eat varieties—is an important food retail segment to watch in 2017. Use promo code PopTen17 at checkout to save 10% on “Salty Snacks in the U.S., 4th Edition” before the end of February.
January 19, 2017Consumers continue to embrace snacking—not only as viable daypart option but also as a paradigm through which to view eating in general (smaller, more frequent meals). This has caused and will continue to cause changes in consumers’ relationships with traditional breakfast foods.
November 10, 2016Packaged Facts is offering a healthy discount on Healthy-Ingredient Snacks in the U.S., 2nd Edition. Purchase the report by October 1 and receive 10% off with code SNACKS2016. Aug. 2 - Meat snacks (jerky and other snacks such as meat sticks) have become a darling of the snacking world in the last couple of years. Between paleo dieters and CrossFitters espousing the benefits of a high protein diet, the gluten- and wheat-free tribes avoiding anything to do with breads, and the continued negative...
August 2, 2016A sweet discount on Packaged Facts’ Salty Snacks in the U.S., 4th Edition : 5% off with code PFSNACKS2016. April 21 - Snacks and Super Bowl go together like … well … actually it’s pretty much impossible to make a better pairing then that. According to IRI, Americans spent an extra $1.5 billion in snacks and $767 million on candy in the two weeks leading up to Super Bowl XLIX in 2015. Of course, salty snacks like chips, pretzels, and popcorn are a key component of those snacks. In the week lead...
April 21, 2016What a sweet deal! Save 10% on our report Sweet Baked Goods: U.S. Market Trends with promo code PFSAVE10. Feb. 4 - Americans are eating and snacking healthier, but they do love to indulge in sweet baked goods. They can’t live without their cookies, snack cakes, doughnuts, muffins and other sweet treats. And most people like the regular versions over low or fat-free types. Consumers generally eat sweet baked goods to indulge in a treat. Increasingly however some are looking for healthier more n...
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