Batory Foods, a national distributor of food and ingredients, has acquired Sweetener Solutions, a Savannah, Ga.-based company specializing in custom sweetener formulation, precision blending and specialty portion packaging.

Read up on the growing frozen ready-meal market as well as how inflation has accelerated private label share and penetration in this installment of Nuts & Bolts.

No illnesses have been reported to date in connection with this problem.

The largest industry continues to be the food industry for packaging equipment.

Daily Harvest has launched Crumbles, a versatile plant-based crumble made entirely from lentils, nuts, seeds, and vegetables. Crumbles offer 13 grams of protein per serving and are free of gums, fillers, hydrogenated oils, GMOs, or artificial ingredients.  

Made with USDA-certified organic nopal cactus leaf, this organic cactus water contains antioxidants, electrolytes and amino acids.

Idahoan Foods has joined the Consumer Brands Association’s (CBA) Ukraine relief efforts by donating 322,560 pouches of its ready-to-eat Honest Earth brand Mashed Sweet Potatoes to CBA partner World Central Kitchen (WCK). 

Southern Style Jumbo Shrimp is a jumbo butterfly shrimp in a pickle brined breading with a sweet mustard barbecue sauce.