01 ▲0 Cheez-It and Coors Light debut Beer Cheese crackers DROPS · kmikeym · prnewswire.com ↗ · Jul 25, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
02 ▲0 ADM says GLP-1 drugs, Gen Z, and clean label are rewiring how snack brands innovate CULTURE · kmikeym · foodingredientsfirst.com ↗ · Jul 24, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
03 ▲0 California heat wave threatens pistachio supply even as snack nuts hit $6.7B BIZ · kmikeym · snackandbakery.com ↗ · Jul 23, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
04 ▲0 Calbee and Haitai put salmon sushi in a chip — South Korea calls it addictive DROPS · kmikeym · en.sedaily.com ↗ · Jul 22, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
05 ▲0 Van Leeuwen's $23.8M trademark win proves the ice cream wars are real and boutique brands have finally figured out how to fight back. BIZ · mikemerrill · inc.com ↗ · Jul 21, 2026
06 ▲0 Americans have fully accepted the snacking economy and there's no going back—we've basically become professional nibblers with jobs. CULTURE · kmikeym · circana.com ↗ · Jul 21, 2026
07 ▲0 Intersnack paying 91% premium for Utz suggests potato chip consolidation has officially peaked—when you're overpaying this hard for salty carbs, the snacking boom is priced in. BIZ · kmikeym · seekingalpha.com ↗ · Jul 21, 2026
08 ▲0 Welch's launches a frozen PBJ that's 50% bigger than Uncrustables DROPS · kmikeym · thetakeout.com ↗ · Jul 20, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
09 ▲0 UC Davis: 93% of avocado oil chips are cut with cheaper oils, new study finds CULTURE · kmikeym · ucdavis.edu ↗ · Jul 19, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
10 ▲0 Industry panel coins 'snealing' for the snack-as-meal shift CULTURE · kmikeym · foodbusinessnews.net ↗ · Jul 18, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
11 ▲0 Nissin debuts a cold-water Cup Noodle, five years in the making DROPS · kmikeym · soranews24.com ↗ · Jul 17, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
12 ▲0 Wicked Cutz and Cinnabon made a cinnamon roll-flavored bacon jerky DROPS · kmikeym · prnewswire.com ↗ · Jul 16, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
13 ▲0 Lotte betting a Singapore hub can make Korean-Japanese candy beef irrelevant, which tracks for a conglomerate that's basically a country unto itself. BIZ · kmikeym · koreajoongangdaily.com ↗ · Jul 15, 2026
14 ▲0 Atkins went from "low-carb prophet" to "low relevance" faster than a keto flu, and Simply Good Foods just learned that owning zombie brands costs real money. BIZ · kmikeym · globenewswire.com ↗ · Jul 14, 2026
15 ▲0 Ghirardelli's betting Americans will pay chocolate-bar premiums for something that still gets shoved next to Hershey's—brave move or sign the everyday aisle is finally ready to evolve. DROPS · kmikeym · sporked.com ↗ · Jul 13, 2026
16 ▲0 Clio Snacks launches chocolate-drizzled Greek yogurt bars in ice cream flavors DROPS · kmikeym · prnewswire.com ↗ · Jul 12, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
17 ▲0 PepsiCo slashed Frito-Lay prices 15% — shoppers still pulled back in Q2 BIZ · kmikeym · cnbc.com ↗ · Jul 11, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
18 ▲0 Reese's Pieces finally admits that peanut butter candy alone was leaving people unsatisfied, so they're doing what every snack brand does when sales plateau: add chocolate and call it innovation. DROPS · kmikeym · thetakeout.com ↗ · Jul 10, 2026
19 ▲0 Nestlé is basically admitting that half their customer base is now medicated into flavor oblivion, so they're turning up the heat to compete with ozempic—the most unhinged market dynamic yet. BIZ · kmikeym · qz.com ↗ · Jul 9, 2026
20 ▲0 Hershey's betting a PepsiCo lifer can turn chocolate into a beverage-scale business—which tracks if you've seen how they're packaging candy like it's a lifestyle brand now. BIZ · kmikeym · prnewswire.com ↗ · Jul 8, 2026
21 ▲0 Spain's Fini selling YumEarth to PE is the organic candy equivalent of a VC bro explaining why selling out actually makes the product "scale the mission." BIZ · kmikeym · foodbusinessnews.net ↗ · Jul 7, 2026
22 ▲0 Pringles finally solved the age-old question nobody asked: what if your hot dog bun had the structural integrity of a saddle and tasted like regret? DROPS · kmikeym · prnewswire.com ↗ · Jul 6, 2026
23 ▲0 All Time Low designing snack chips is exactly the kind of mid-tier celebrity pivot that makes you realize the entertainment economy has fully collapsed into itself. DROPS · kmikeym · nosh.com ↗ · Jul 5, 2026
24 ▲0 Hot Pockets finally realized their core audience wants to commit less time to regret, so Snack Breaks is just microwaved penance in bite-size form. DROPS · kmikeym · sporked.com ↗ · Jul 4, 2026
25 ▲0 General Mills discovered that frozen pizza can't save you from bad execution, and now the frozen food aisle's biggest bet has become its biggest liability. BIZ · kmikeym · foodbusinessnews.net ↗ · Jul 3, 2026
26 ▲0 Chips Ahoy betting the entire ranch that nostalgia-glazed millennials will pay premium for cookies that taste like they got lost in a toy box in 2010. DROPS · kmikeym · theimpulsivebuy.com ↗ · Jul 2, 2026
27 ▲0 CJ Foods is basically calling climate change's bluff by moving seaweed farming indoors—a flex that says "we'll control the supply chain before the ocean does." BIZ · kmikeym · fooddive.com ↗ · Jul 1, 2026
28 ▲1 Jensen Huang proved that CEO clout beats marketing budget: HBM chips went from vending machine to collectible CULTURE · kmikeym · en.sedaily.com ↗ · Jun 30, 2026
29 ▲0 Zapps and Dirty chips just got benched for the season for salmonella BIZ · kmikeym · goodmorningamerica.com ↗ · Jun 29, 2026
30 ▲0 Kylie Kelce's granola butter collab proves even NFL wife energy can't save oat spreads from being the cardio snack nobody asked for. DROPS · kmikeym · nosh.com ↗ · Jun 28, 2026
31 ▲1 Rivalz betting the house on puffed corn while everyone else chases functional snacks is either visionary or the most 2024 move possible. BIZ · kmikeym · nosh.com ↗ · Jun 27, 2026
32 ▲1 Beaver Nuggets officially the most American export since manifest destiny. CULTURE · kmikeym · nbcnews.com ↗ · Jun 26, 2026
33 ▲0 Takis went clean because Gen Z would rather eat cardboard than admit they like artificial ingredients, and the brand actually listened. BIZ · kmikeym · prnewswire.com ↗ · Jun 25, 2026
34 ▲0 CandyKing's sour pineapple foam is either the most inspired or most unhinged flavor move Sweden's ever exported, and honestly we need it to slap so European candy doesn't stay a whole tier above us. DROPS · kmikeym · snackandbakery.com ↗ · Jun 24, 2026
35 ▲0 Meals are dead; snacking is just gaslighting us into thinking we're still eating real food. CULTURE · kmikeym · bakeryandsnacks.com ↗ · Jun 23, 2026
36 ▲0 Good Housekeeping's snack awards confirmed what we already knew: Big Snack has been paying attention to your pantry habits. DROPS · kmikeym · snackandbakery.com ↗ · Jun 22, 2026
37 ▲0 Campbell's snack sales slump as CEO weighs brand cuts from Kettle to Snyder's BIZ · kmikeym · fooddive.com ↗ · Jun 21, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
38 ▲0 Mondelez is treating World Cup matches like mini Super Bowls CULTURE · kmikeym · marketingdive.com ↗ · Jun 20, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
39 ▲0 Snack Pack's Dr Pepper Juicy Gels bring soda flavor to a gelatin cup DROPS · kmikeym · sporked.com ↗ · Jun 19, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
40 ▲0 Snackish, a chip brand from the SmartSweets founder, debuts at Target DROPS · kmikeym · prnewswire.com ↗ · Jun 18, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
41 ▲0 Frito-Lay goes global with 40 World Cup chip flavors — three land in the US DROPS · kmikeym · sporked.com ↗ · Jun 17, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
42 ▲0 Cup Noodles betting on regional BBQ tribalism to move inventory is peak marketing laziness dressed as flavor innovation. DROPS · kmikeym · prnewswire.com ↗ · Jun 17, 2026
43 ▲0 Second Nature Brands acquires Tillamook Country Smoker in meat snacks push BIZ · kmikeym · nosh.com ↗ · Jun 16, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
44 ▲0 Frito-Lay's California exodus proves even snack monopolies can't survive in a state where labor costs and regulations make it cheaper to consolidate elsewhere. BIZ · kmikeym · fooddive.com ↗ · Jun 13, 2026
45 ▲0 Fruit prices in Kosovo rise 13.1% year-on-year BIZ · mikemerrill · freshplaza.com ↗ · Jun 4, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
46 ▲0 Women farmers in Kosovo are empowered to shape the future of agriculture CULTURE · mikemerrill · eca.unwomen.org ↗ · Jun 2, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
47 ▲0 Wendy’s: The Burger Chain That Dared To Be Different Fights for Survival CULTURE · mikemerrill · newsweek.com ↗ · Jun 1, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
48 ▲0 Eid Al-Adha 2026: Foods Beyond Biryani That Deserve More Attention CULTURE · mikemerrill · slurrp.com ↗ · May 29, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
49 ▲0 Dr Pepper gets into microdramas for return of dirty soda-inspired flavor BIZ · mikemerrill · marketingdive.com ↗ · May 22, 2026 · NO TAKE YET
50 ▲0 Sweets & Snacks Expo Announces 2026 Most Innovative New Product Awards Winners BIZ · mikemerrill · prnewswire.com ↗ · May 21, 2026 · NO TAKE YET