Top Five Food Trends Spotted At Winter Fancy Food Show

January 20, 2016 Specialty Food Association

What's next on store shelves? Snacks made with crickets, grass-fed everything, and protein where you least expect it, according to an expert panel of trendspotters who combed the exhibit halls at the 2016 Winter Fancy Food Show, owned and produced by the Specialty Food Association.

Red Table Meat Co. Wins Big At Good Food Awards

January 20, 2016 Rick Nelson, Star Tribune

Red Table Meat Co. won big at the sixth-annual Good Food Awards in San Francisco. The northeast Minneapolis-based maker of cured meats was recognized for its coppa, Big Chet’s salami and the cooked smoked ham that it calls, suitably, the Royal.

Garden Fresh Founder Launches New Line Of Healthy Meat Entrees

Garden Fresh Gourmet founder Jack Aronson is taking the fresh approach that made his salsa the country's top brand to another food segment with the launch of a new line of refrigerated meat entrées aimed at health-conscious eaters.

Four Canadian-Made Butters That May Have You Spreading The Word

It’s a good time to be a congregant in the church of churn. After countless years spent suffering under the tyranny of the bland butter stick, creameries across the country, often inspired by Europe’s vastly superior spreads, are turning out the good stuff. Sea salted, cultured, fermented, boosted fat content: these are now the norm, and a world of silky deliciousness awaits. So embrace your saturated snobbery, and thank the butter gods for delivering us from those big pale bricks of flavourless fat.

TruMoo Gets A Calcium Boost

January 20, 2016 Dean Foods Company

Grab a straw because the drink you enjoyed as a kid is getting even more nutritious! Dean Foods Company (NYSE: DF) is introducing new TruMoo Calcium Plus low-fat chocolate milk to its line of delicious dairy products. Like regular TruMoo, the nation's leading ready-to-serve refrigerated chocolate milk,* TruMoo Calcium Plus milk contains no high fructose corn syrup, no artificial growth hormones and no artificial sweeteners – and is made with 50 percent more calcium per serving than regular low-fat white milk.