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Rollout: The best of June’s new food products

This month's debutantes include Birds Eye Steamfresh veggies; Wishbone Salad Spritzers; Kellogg's Granola Munch'ems and Special K Snack Bites; 100 calorie packs from Frito-Lay; Dr Pepper Berries & Cream; McCormick Finishing Sauces.
Post Date: 05/31/2006
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor

Category Report: Popcorn -- An American original

The popularity of microwave popcorn just keeps growing.
Post Date: 05/23/2006
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor

Food Biz Kids: Great brownie, questionable name

‘Chocolate and vanilla taste great together.’
Post Date: 05/22/2006
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends, Editor

The Pacesetters: Top-selling new products

IRI’s top-selling products of 2005 deliver lessons (good and bad) in taste, nutrition, convenience and performance.
Post Date: 04/25/2006
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Rollout: February's most interesting new food products

Hershey's Kissables; Birds Eye’s Herb Garden Collection; Quaker Life with yogurt; DiGiorno’s wheat pizza; Cheez-It Fiesta; Seattle’s Best Coffee at home.
Post Date: 01/31/2006
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor

Food Biz Kids: Popcorn as a birth announcement

The Storkline's fruit-flavored popcorn is color-coordinated to the new baby's gender: blue for a boy and pink for a girl.
Post Date: 01/31/2006
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor

Rollout: January's most interesting new products

Birds Eye Steam & Serve side dishes; Kraft’s healthier mac & cheese; frozen premium fruit from Dole; Crystal Light for bottled water; Mega M&M’s; Pepperidge Farm Chocolate Dipped cookies
Post Date: 12/21/2005
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor

Food Biz Kids: Mixed reviews for Hershey's Caramel SnackBarz

‘Are they trying to compete with Nestlé Toll House Bars?’
Post Date: 12/19/2005
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor

Well Noted: Not Your Bubbie’s Kosher

Kosherfest 2005 showed that the merger of the food industry’s two hottest trends is no mixed marriage.
Post Date: 12/06/2005
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Rollout: December's most interesting new food products

A look at holiday products: new beef cut; Jones' unusual soda flavors; Eagle dessert in a kit; brown sugar Splenda; Ore-Ida frozen roasted potatoes; a gift for Fido; a better butter wrapper.
Post Date: 11/30/2005
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Food Biz Kids: The tiniest of crackers

‘Fun to play with but better to eat.’
Post Date: 11/30/2005
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor

2005 Innovation Awards: Works of art

Our editors, readers and advisors pick the masterpieces of 2005 (and a couple of potboilers) with an eye toward healthier eating.
Post Date: 11/28/2005
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Food Biz Kids: Juice in a fruit roll snack

Our 7th-grade panelists deemed Nabisco's CapriSun Juicers ‘a good out-the-door snack for lunch.’
Post Date: 10/25/2005
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor

Food Biz Kids: Reese’s Cup in a cookie

Our seventh- and eighth-graders say Reese’s Milk Chocolate Dipped Cookies with Peanut Butter make ‘a good come-home-and-eat snack for kids.’
Post Date: 09/23/2005
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor

Rollout: August’s most interesting new food products

Performance beans from Jelly Belly; Stouffer’s creates a bistro; Dove flies to new categories; Coke’s new Zero; keeping Chips Ahoy fresh; Herr’s buttermilk ranch popcorn.
Post Date: 07/26/2005
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor

Food Biz Kids: Our kids disagree about Q-Smart

Some of our kids liked Q-Smart snacks, but a greater number did not. Overall, it was a sad day for rice cakes.
Post Date: 06/27/2005
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor

Food Biz Kids: Cheese with zing

‘It’s a great idea to twist two flavors together.’
Post Date: 05/31/2005
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor

Product Spotlight: The price of healthful snacking

The health message is the new product for Planters Nut-rition almonds; but who’s nuts enough to pay $5.99?
Post Date: 03/29/2005
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Rollout: The best of April's new food products

Haagen-Dazs sees the light; plant sterols pump up Yoplait; Sargento goes for the bold; Kraft delivers a calcium boost; Coke pushes the throttle; Twist [your] Brain around this!
Post Date: 03/24/2005
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Category Report: Hitting all the bars

Breakfast/cereal/snack bars are ideal for on-the-go consumers; and they can mesh well with the new Dietary Guidelines.
Post Date: 02/22/2005
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