Month: January 2017

J&J Snack Foods Corp. Acquires Hill & Valley Premium Bakery

January 3, 2017 J&J Snack Foods Corp.

J&J Snack Foods Corp.  announced today that it has acquired the stock of Hill & Valley Inc., a premium bakery located in Rock Island, IL. Hill & Valley, with sales of over $45 million annually, is a manufacturer of a variety of pre-baked cakes, cookies, pies, muffins and other desserts to retail in-store bakeries. Hill & Valley is the leading brand of Sugar Free and No Sugar Added pre-baked in-store bakery items. Additionally, Hill & Valley sustains strategic private labeling partnerships with retailers nationwide. …

Natural Grocers To Open 20th Texas Store On January 18 In Longview, TX

January 3, 2017 Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets, Inc.

Natural Grocers will open its 20th Texas store on Wednesday, January 18. The new 17,000 square foot store will open at 8 a.m. and is located at 406 W Loop 281. Natural Grocers also plans to open an additional San Antonio store in the first half of 2017. …

Shipt Partners With H-E-B To Bring Grocery Delivery To Waco

January 3, 2017 Shipt

Shipt, the nation’s fastest growing grocery delivery service, and H-E-B, one of the nation’s largest and most respected grocery retailers, today announced the addition of Waco, TX to their delivery partnership. This partnership, which originally launched in San Antonio in May 2016, allows Shipt and H-E-B to offer the convenience of grocery delivery to more than 3.6 million households across Texas. …

Fears Of Food Desert In NY's High-End SoHo As Grocery Closes

January 3, 2017 Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times

SoHo offers a bounty of food — each block in this Manhattan neighborhood seems to feature artisanal chocolatiers selling single origin cacao, juice shops extruding vegetables for $9 a bottle and stores peddling cupcakes and Cronuts. Yet while high-end delicacies with gold bullion prices abound, humbler places to buy a jar of nonartisanal peanut butter or a sack of plain old gluten-full flour are much harder to find. …

Making Spinach With Low Oxalate Levels

January 3, 2017 Sharon Durham, USDA AgResearch Magazine

Spinach is an economically important vegetable crop worldwide. It is considered healthful in the human diet due to its high concentration of nutrients, such as beta carotene (pro vitamin A), lutein, folate, vitamin C, calcium, iron, phosphorus, and potassium. However, spinach also contains higher concentrations of oxalic acid than most crops. Oxalic acid, or “oxalate,” is a naturally occurring plant chemical. …