American Key Food Products (AKFP) has introduced an organic version of its pioneering King Lion Premium Cassava Flour, which will enable gluten-free and grain-free bakers to now offer high-quality organic products to their consumers.

The company is partnering with Beyond Meat®, a leader in plant-based meat, to create a new Veggies Made Great Frittata Line made with Beyond Meat, which will be available at select retailers in the coming weeks, and available for sale online at www.veggiesmadegreat.com and Amazon.

Buddha Brands®, maker of better-for-you, plant-based food and beverages, launched Hungry Buddha® Keto Bars in an effort to clean up the keto aisle. The new bars are KETO DONE CLEAN®, and available in four flavors: Chocolate Chip, Coconut Cocoa, Espresso Brownie, and Triple Chocolate.

An affiliate of Peak Rock Capital, a leading middle-market private investment firm, announced that it has completed its acquisition of Halo Foods Ltd. in partnership with the management team of Halo.

LesserEvil, the better-for-you snack brand known for its premium portfolio of tasty snacks, including recently-introduced Keto Certified Mini Cookies, announced its latest innovation, Grain Free Veggie Sticks, which hit shelves in retail and online this September. 

Earnest Eats introduced two new formats to its growing portfolio of nutritious whole grain breakfast solutions, Protein + Probiotic Instant Oatmeal Packets and Superfood Instant Oatmeal Packets. Each new line offers convenience of instant oatmeal packets while making clean, powerfully nourishing, non-GMO food more affordable and accessible.  

Emerging health-food and lifestyle brand, MCTco, launched three new "boosted" flavors to its line of MCTBars: Berry Beautiful, Lemon Boost and Banana Beautiful. Each of the new bars furthers MCTco's commitment to taste and nutritional functionality, while maintaining the brand's signature standards of being keto-friendly, non-GMO, gluten-free and collagen-based superfood snack bars.

Stuck at home with no place to go coupled with the stress of a worldwide pandemic have caused many US consumers to put dieting on the back burner, except for dieters on keto and other lifestyle diets, like gluten-free and clean eating, reports The NPD Group. US adult participation in total diet or nutrition programs dropped from 48.3% in April 2019 to 43.8% in April 2020, while participation in the keto and other specialty diets remained unchanged in April from a year ago, according to NPD’s Health Aspirations & Behavioral Tracking Service.

Flora Plant Butter is a vegan, dairy free, gluten free, and non-GMO plant butter with a rich and creamy taste and which consumers can use 1:1 in baking and cooking but is made with plant-based oils, and no artificial flavors or preservatives.