GoodSam Foods, a brand on a mission and an ally for small farms, launches a chocolate line, available exclusively at Thrive Market online. Featuring chocolate bars, chocolate chips and chocolate coated nuts, consumers are now able to indulge in a sweet treat that features taste, health and sustainability.

Consumer commitment to reduce sugar consumption continues to drive industry opportunities to develop non-nutritive sweeteners that perform and taste like table sugar. Blending nutritive sweeteners with high-intensity sweeteners (HIS) has become the standard, with stevia being the common go-to, typically in blends with everything from corn-derived sucrose or dextrose to maltose or tapioca sugar, or recent arrivals like coconut sugar.

Foodnerd, a company dedicated to shaping the future of food through disguised sprouted mega-food products, launched SeeReal. SeeReal is a raw and sprouted cereal that is formulated for optimal nutrition and positively processed to maintain all of its nutrient integrity.

My/Mo Mochi Ice Cream introduced a limited edition flavor, Cool Peppermint. The seasonal flavor comes just in time for hungry mochi lovers everywhere to hunker down for the holidays. Snackers can now find this twist on the classic, wintery flavor in freezer aisles nationwide.