The new Plantain Tortilla Chips will come in two flavors, Himalayan Pink Salt and Lime & Sea Salt. Each bag contains golden brown chips made from seasoned ground plantains cooked in avocado oil for the perfect crunch to satisfy any salty craving. 

The new rinds are packed with protein, baked (not fried) until light and crispy, and seasoned carefully to create an authentic pork taste.

Each 1.2-ounce bag (34g) of Macro Snacks is packed with 11g of pea protein isolate, 16g of complex carbohydrates and 3.5g of fat.

Umamis Crunchy Snacks are manufactured using traditional extrusion technology applied with novel adaptations that yields a generous 40g-equivalent hit of fresh mushrooms per serving.

Flavor Shots feature a burst of intensity and crunch and come in convenient ready-to-go packaging.

Pirate’s Booty is a fast-growing brand in the more than $2.5B cheese puffs category, with retail sales up over 8% on a year-over-year basis, and a market leader for consumers seeking snacks with clean labels and no artificial flavors, colors or preservatives.

As part of the new partnership, Utz will create new, baseball-themed packaging for a variety of its products that will include the silhouetted batter and other official MLB marks for the first time. 

In some varieties the sorghum bran (the husk that surrounds the grain) contains higher levels of antioxidants than blueberries.

In 2015, Mintel research found that half as many consumers (25%) snacked because they were bored.

Threading the salty-but-healthy snack combination is a major key in appealing to consumers over the next few years, according market research publisher Packaged Facts.