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The bull market for meat snacks should keep running, according to analysts.

The category is benefiting from several powerful consumer trends at once, creating one of the fastest-growing segments in packaged food, according to a new report from financial services company CoBank. Today we dove into changes in retail sales, product format-level performance and how meat snack businesses are positioning for a new type of consumer.

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🫛 Standing Tall debuted a line of roasted soybean snacks designed to support women’s health through midlife and beyond. Learn more here

🍦 David entered the high-protein ice cream category with the launch of a 4-SKU line of “Indulgent Frozen Dessert” pints. Get all of the details on Nosh

🍎 That’s it. Introduced new Fiber Fruit Bars at Walmart, each containing seven grams of fiber. The bars are available in three flavors: Mixed Berries, Cherry, and Pear. Read the full release

🍜 Pulmuone, a leading Asian food manufacturer, added three new single-serve noodle bowls to its lineup including Tantanmen, Dan Dan and Jajangmyeon. Learn more

We rounded up all of the rest of this week’s new products and packaged them into our weekly gallery.

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The Sweets & Snacks Expo 2026 featured 275,000 sq. ft. of clusters, nibbles, kernels and morsels debuting from over 1,000 companies, and we spent the past month unpacking all of the bits of news we gathered on the show floor. 

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Nestlé has paid roughly $523 million to take full control over German nutrition brand Yfood. 

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Can protein be a decadent dessert? David is betting on it. 

We dig into the brand's new frozen desserts, unpack Smash Foods' $5 million funding round, examine how AI is changing the path to purchase and revisit standout insights from some of Austin's smartest operators. 

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