The new, chef-crafted Well Carved™ product line combines meat with whole vegetables, legumes and grains, and continues the brand's mission – Changing The Meat We Eat®.

Many of the nutritional factors that reduce the risk for heart disease are essential parts of well-known dietary staples. At least, staples for some. Many such foods and ingredients are not necessarily staples in the modern Western diet.

Made with just chickpeas or red lentils, Barilla leveraged its more than 140 years of experience to create a pasta with a unique taste and "al dente" texture, along with the nutrition benefits of legumes – providing a good source of plant-based protein and excellent source of fiber.  

Overweight and obesity rates might be leveling off, but as more nations become more developed, waist expansion is spreading worldwide. In fact, the global girth rate appears to be untouched by an equally epidemic and persistent obsession with diets—diets of all kinds and of all claims.

The new line features five flavors.

Advice from the culinary field provides clues on how to craft flavorful, enticing foods with consumer and nutritional goals in mind.

J.R. Short has developed the foundation for a new category of snacks based on its proprietary micro pellet extrusion technology.