Sadler’s Smokehouse is introducing a line of ready-to-eat beef brisket, pulled pork, pulled chicken and St. Louis Ribs at select retailers this summer. The new line of Sadler’s Smokehouse products is pit-smoked low and slow, using butcher-quality cuts of meat, no artificial ingredients, Texas hardwoods and 65 years of family barbeque tradition.
On our latest Cold Corner Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Michael Costa sits down with Peter Bartzis and Liz Vanderhoef from Devanco Foods—which placed first in our 2021 Best New Frozen Retail Products Contest—to discuss the company’s winning No-MSG Chicken Gyros Kits, as well as their overall retail sales growth (150% year-over-year), sustainability goals, new product launches, family focused company culture, and distribution strategies for e-commerce and foodservice, which is rapidly ramping up as pandemic restrictions are lifted.
The company also announces its first consumer product will be chicken.
May 17, 2021
Memphis Meats, a leading company in cell-cultured meat, poultry and seafood has changed its name to UPSIDE Foods. This signifies the company is now ready for business with its first consumer product: chicken.
Saffron Road—the clean-label, world cuisine leader on a mission to bring people together through authentic, global flavors and wholesome, real ingredients—added two new restaurant-quality frozen entrees to their Thai cuisine product line: Thai Red Curry Chicken, and Thai Basil Noodles.
Bibigo Korean-Style Crunchy Chicken is available in two varieties—Soy Garlic, and Sweet & Spicy—featuring antibiotic-free boneless chicken tossed in a signature batter for an extra crunch that’s light and airy.
Comax Flavors introduces the 2021 Flavor Trends divided into four distinct flavor collections. Immunity Boost focuses on consumers’ quest for functional foods and beverages while Breakfast Basics addresses consumers’ interest in breakfast at home or on the go. Home Baker taps into rediscovering baking and cooking at home while Chicken Soars spotlights consumers’ appetite for chicken and plant-based chicken alternatives.
Daring Foods, Scotland, partnered with Rastelli Foods Group, Swedesboro, N.J., to bring what is said to be first plant-based chicken made from only five non-GMO ingredients to the U.S. marketplace.
