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IRI, 210 Analytics and Marriner Marketing joined forces to study meat department sales and trends. In an end-of-year review, 210 Analytics President Anne-Marie Roerink noted that department sales have increased more than $9 billion between 2018 and 2022. Moreover, sales reached a record high of $87.1 billion, up 5.8% from 2021 levels.

This new innovation has been crafted to help consumers take their culinary game to the next level with flavors that are globally inspired and provide a slice of adventure to pizzas, paninis, tapas and more.

Inspired by craveable guest favorites, the new retail entrées include Cheddar Bay Biscuit® Shrimp, which combines the Cheddar Bay Biscuit with shrimp, and Coconut Shrimp Bites, both making it easy to enjoy seafood.

Ovation Foods® introduced Chicken Strips to its line of nutrient-dense meat snacks containing one whole egg – a unique whole food breakthrough that aims to reinvent the healthy snack food category.

Made with lightly seasoned Panko breadcrumbs and 100% whole, wild-caught Alaska Pollock fillets or tender butterfly shrimp, the products are fried with hot air—not oil—through Gorton's proprietary process.

Despite the rising popularity of plant-based protein, meat still reigns supreme, with a majority of the population still consuming traditional meat products. 

The premium gourmet product received the USDA stamp of approval to distribute in a retail setting and are available now online for nationwide shipping through Lexington Betty's online store.

International plant nutrition leader, Haifa Group, Ltd., and food-tech innovator, SimpliiGood by AlgaeCore Technologies Ltd., have joined forces to optimize the SimpliiGood spirulina supply chain while promoting their net zero goals. This partnership delivers benefits to both companies’ products and bottom lines in the short term. It also positions them to create a sustainable circular carbon economy within the next several years. 

Inline Plastics is answering that call and doing so in a sustainable fashion. The company now offers seven new rectangular products in its Essentials Platters line. These all-clear, rectangle-shaped platters are also made with 10% post-consumer content.

Products in the line include smoked tuna in soybean oil, smoked tuna in soybean oil with lemon and oregano, and three smoked tuna blended salads that are 25% high-protein tuna and 75% antioxidant and fiber-rich vegetables and legumes.