Southern Recipe Small Batch debuts four unique flavors and two cooking styles in baked pork rinds and tender style pork cracklins. Oven Baked Pork Rinds come in three new flavors: Cilantro Lime, Blackberry Habanero and Smoked Sea Salt. Adding sweet heat to the snack aisle is the new Tender Style Pork Cracklins in Honey Chipotle.
Render, a food company based in Healdsburg, Calif., just launched a snack line called State Bird Seed. A collaboration with award-winning chefs Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski, owners of restaurants State Bird Provisions and The Progress in San Francisco, State Bird Seed is a crunchy mix of puffed quinoa, seeds, herbs and spices that can be enjoyed as a snack or crumbled as a topping on oatmeal and yogurt to salads and meat.
Ferris Coffee & Nut Company recently launched new packaging and recipe for its specialty line of snacks, Lush Gourmet Foods. Packaging features include a breakdown of ingredients, delicious pairing suggestions and pouches that make the line more consistent and approachable.
Ingredient diversity—combined with creative died and a revival of extrusion technology—has injected a strong level of innovation into the extruded snack world of late.
