General Mills is launching more than 50 new U.S. retail products over the next six months.
December 23, 2013
The company also unveiled five new cereals, including Chocolate Toast Crunch (a variation on Cinnamon Toast Crunch) and Dark Chocolate Crunch Multi Grain Cheerios.
In the coming year, food forecasters expect less emphasis on the center-of-the-plate proteins and more importance on vegetables and grains previously relegated to the perimeter. “When the New York magazine declared, ‘Vegetables are the new meat’ [November 2010], chefs started paying more attention,” says Kara Nielson, “trendologist” for the Center of Culinary Development, San Francisco.