Grocery inflation hits a 2-year high

Food-at-home prices rose in August at a 2.7% annual clip, stoked by steep increases in the cost of beef, eggs, coffee and produce.

By Sam Silverstein • Sept. 16, 2025

The new rules of food and personal care products

Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) leads the healthy foods movement, reshaping national health dialogue.

By Steve Riordan and Hadley Bauer • Sept. 15, 2025

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Getting reformulation right: How food companies are rethinking ingredients to meet consumer demand

Ingredient suppliers and companies like PepsiCo and Conagra are working closer together to overhaul brands to cater to a rise in healthy eating and expanding GLP-1 use. 

By Food Dive staff

Meet FARA® at SupplySide West 2025: Functional solutions for food & nutraceutical innovation

Faravelli at SupplySide West: explore FARA® innovations at Booth 6381—book your meeting now.

Sept. 15, 2025

Leftovers: Cheez-It adds crunch for biggest innovation in years | Wonderful Pistachios enters confectionery category

Kellanova is playing into consumer demand for sensory snacking, while Snickers unveils a trio of dipping sauces for football season.

By Food Dive staff • Sept. 12, 2025

FDA takes first step toward closing GRAS ingredient ‘loophole’

The agency is proposing a requirement that companies submit data when self-affirming an additive is safe for consumption.

By Sarah Zimmerman • Sept. 11, 2025

Food companies could be required to disclose when products contain gluten

The proposal is part of a long-awaited Trump administration strategy report outlining policy goals of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement.  

By Sarah Zimmerman • Sept. 11, 2025

Private label, assortment changes may unlock SNAP spending

Adjusting product selections can help grocers weather policy changes that could negatively impact SNAP consumers, a Coresight Research report found.

By Catherine Douglas Moran • Sept. 10, 2025

Coca-Cola aims to help solve the orange juice crisis with AI

The Minute Maid producer is a founding member of an MIT consortium that looks to solve “real-world problems” through artificial intelligence.

By Christopher Doering • Sept. 10, 2025

Molson Coors is brewing a future beyond the beer tap

The alcohol giant has built a presence in everything from nonalcoholic cocktails to energy drinks to attract more consumers and offset a decline in beer consumption.

By Christopher Doering • Sept. 8, 2025

Why ingredient simplicity equals brand strength right now

Here’s how food innovation is enabling brands to stay ahead of global disruptors while keeping taste and texture uncompromised.

Sept. 8, 2025

Lab-grown meat makers sue Texas over ban on cultivated protein

As more states restrict sales, startups Wildtype and Upside Foods argue the laws could threaten the survival of the nascent industry.

By Sarah Zimmerman • Sept. 4, 2025

Campbell’s becomes latest food giant to remove synthetic colors

Brands such as Lance crackers and V8 Splash will transition to colors derived from annatto, purple carrot juice concentrate and other natural sources.

By Christopher Doering • Sept. 3, 2025

PepsiCo ups stake in Celsius to 11% with $585M deal

Celsius also will acquire the beverage giant’s Rockstar Energy drink brand in the U.S. and Canada.

By Christopher Doering • Aug. 29, 2025

T Hasegawa launches natural citrus flavor technology to improve beverage shelf life

The innovation, called Hasecitrus, allows sports drinks and other products to preserve flavors longer while maintaining clean-label formulations. 

By Sarah Zimmerman • Aug. 28, 2025

4 food trends that could define the rest of 2025

Companies are restructuring operations or rethinking M&A as they feel the heat from slowing sales and face pressure to transform their ingredient lists.

By Christopher Doering , Sarah Zimmerman • Aug. 27, 2025

Spindrift discontinues alcohol offering amid decline in hard seltzers

The beverage maker will end production of its Spiked line after four years, noting it took “substantial resources and time.”

By Christopher Doering • Aug. 25, 2025

Here’s how — and why — to own the ingredient conversation with consumers

Food brands and manufacturers can own the ingredient conversation to win consumer trust and loyalty, and it starts with education.

Aug. 25, 2025

McCormick reaches $750M deal to expand condiments business in Latin America

The spice giant will become the majority owner of a joint venture in Mexico as it sees strong demand for mayonnaise.  

By Sarah Zimmerman • Aug. 21, 2025

Nestlé develops ‘groundbreaking’ process to boost cocoa production

The discovery could increase the supply of the popular commodity, which has seen yields cut due to climate change.

By Christopher Doering • Aug. 21, 2025

Tyson adjusts beef production in face of low supply, healthy demand

The meat processor has cut costs from its operation and slowed processing speeds to get the most from record-low cattle availability.

By Antone Gonsalves • Aug. 19, 2025

FMI says it’s concerned about tariffs’ impacts on grocery prices

More than half of respondents to the trade group’s U.S. consumer trends survey for August said tariffs were their primary concern related to food costs.

By Sam Silverstein • Aug. 18, 2025

WK Kellogg signs legal agreement to remove artificial dyes from cereals

The deal with the Texas attorney general's office represents the first time a food company has gone beyond a voluntary commitment to phase out petroleum-based colors.

By Sarah Zimmerman • Aug. 18, 2025

Food companies consider switching from seed oils

Frozen brand Real Good Foods made one of the largest-scale commitments to use beef tallow as the ingredient gains more prominence.

By Sarah Zimmerman • Aug. 14, 2025

Mars to release Skittles and M&M’s without artificial dyes

The candy giant stopped short of pledging to transition its entire portfolio to natural colors, though said it will offer options under some of its biggest brands.

By Sarah Zimmerman • Aug. 14, 2025

How umami flavors are taking the cocktail world by storm

Spirit makers and others in the alcohol sector are crafting new drinks that embrace consumer demand for savory and Asian-inspired flavors.

By Amanda Schuster • Aug. 14, 2025