Better for you snacks

The joint venture behind Mackie’s Crisps is investing £750,000 (just over 1 million USD) in a new production facility to scale up production of a new snack brand.

In the United Kingdom Kettle Foods ltd is launching KETTLE® Bites - a new healthier product aimed at female consumers looking for lighter, ‘better-for-you’ snacks.

Innovative flavours and changing attitudes towards health are boosting sales of (premium) popcorn in the United Kingdom

They may not be the healthiest of foods but crisps are still the second most popular snack in the UK, research shows. But with crisps made from other vegetables and even fruit now on the market, is the classic potato crisp under threat?

British raw food brand Gourmet Raw will be launching a new addition to their range in mid January 2012. Their new raw crisps are a snack range, made from sprouted buckwheat, which is contains protein and fibre.

Pubs will have the opportunity to stock a completely new range of bagged snacks next month when Warburton, the Bolton-based baker, launches two new products. The baker, which began making kettle chips three decades ago but quit the snack game five ye...