Plus, Smash Kitchen snacks, Olyra financing, Forager Project expansion, Taste Radio͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ 
 
 
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Is Frozen Food A ‘Kitchen Essential?’

Is Frozen Food A ‘Kitchen Essential?’
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Lingering inflationary pressures continue to shape shopping habits while at-home cooking rates have returned to near pandemic-level highs, in this post-pandemic era, consumers are leaning more heavily on value and easy preparation. 

That has pushed frozen food to the top of weekly meal planning, with 40% of shoppers now using the format daily or every few days.

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🥔 Smash Kitchen Ventures Into Snacks

Smash Kitchen, the celebrity-backed pantry staple startup, is venturing into the snack aisle with a line of kettle-cooked potato chips in Walmart stores nationwide.

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💵 Olyra Secures $3.5M Debt Financing

Greek breakfast biscuit maker Olyra reported $3.5 million in debt financing in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Form D last week. 

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After decades in fine dining, renowned restaurateur Jamie Mammano turned his attention to a new challenge: reinventing the tortilla chip. 

In this episode, he shares how a small tortilla bakery experiment evolved into Mi Niña, one of the country’s fastest-growing premium tortilla chip brands, now sold in thousands of retailers nationwide, including Whole Foods, Target and Wegmans.

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