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On the heels of it’s biggest launch to date, Pure Boost, Vive Organic has introduced Immunity Boost Vitamin C to its line of functional wellness shots. This new shot features the trifecta of immunity boosting ingredients, and combines turmeric and ginger with Vitamin C rich acerola cherry for a potent wellness boost that offers more than 200% of your daily value of Vitamin C. 

In honor of Memorial Day, Meat District butcher-crafted, premium meats unveils five flavor-packed varieties of tri-tip angus beef now available at Safeway, Jewel, Food Lion and Save Mart supermarkets to help consumers kick off summer and grilling season. Flavors include Rosemary Porcini, Sweet & Smokey, Roasted Chile, Steak House, and a classic Santa Maria recipe. 

Danone North America's Silk continues to see strong category increases in the oat beverage category with triple-digit growth. Oat continues to be a consumer favorite in plant-based offerings, so Silk plans to be assertive in this segment, recognizing the potential in the oatmilk category. Most recently, Silk has re-introduced Silk Oatmilk with refreshed packaging and formula in four SKUs: Original, Zero Sugar, Vanilla, and Extra Creamy.

Doughp, the edible and bakeable cookie dough brand, has partnered with Ritual Zero Proof, the first American-made spirit alternatives to capture the taste, smell and sensation of traditional spirits without the alcohol, to create Whiskey Maple Bacon cookie dough. 

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.

Veggies Made Great has expanded distribution to a number of new retail outlets across the U.S., adding an additional 1,323 points of distribution for the company's products.

Stavis Seafoods, a multinational fishing company and seafood manufacturer, announced that Salvatore Bramante has joined the company as its new Vice President of Operations. 

ARYZTA North America has announced it has changed its name to Aspire Bakeries, a name reflecting the direction the company aims to continue to move – upwards. Following the sale to private equity firm Lindsay Goldberg earlier this year, the company set out to reintroduce itself with a new name while continuing to focus on growth across its three core brands: La Brea Bakery, Otis Spunkmeyer, and Oakrun Farm Bakery. 

Chicago-based lil'gourmets, a women-owned and minority-owned, organic food start-up, is is bringing their veggie meals to Whole Foods Market stores across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Available now in the store’s refrigerated dairy case, the brand strives to cultivate curiosity in lil’ones by exposing them to veggie-focused, global cuisines to help foster a love of vegetables and diverse foods for life. Furthering the brand’s commitment to providing the highest-quality food for babies and toddlers, lil’gourmets now boasts the Clean Label Project certification for its standard of purity.

Good Catch plant-based seafood announced the launch of a new line of Plant-Based Breaded Fish Sticks, Plant-Based Breaded Fish Fillets and Plant-Based Breaded Crab Cakes. Developed to recreate classic nostalgic comfort foods, the new lineup — crafted from Good Catch's proprietary six-legume blend (peas, chickpeas, lentils, soy, fava beans and navy beans) — offers a delicious plant-based solution to bycatch, mercury contamination and overfishing. These new products are here to positively disrupt the seafood category while delivering comparable protein and the same taste and texture as their animal-based counterparts.