Partner with Us at SupplySide West to Explore Better-for-You Snacking Solutions

Highlights

• We’ll exhibit at Booth #3365 at SupplySide West 2024 on October 30-31.
• Our focus will be balancing health and indulgence in better-for-you snacks.
• Consumers want snacks that are healthy yet also deliver an indulgent experience.
• Our Crunchie™ protein extruded pieces and Foodarom flavors are among our many solutions to make it possible.

Better-for-You Snacks: Balancing Health and Indulgence in Every Bite.

This year we’ll be showcasing ingredients and prototypes around Better-for-You Snacking.

Snacking is on the rise, but traditional snacks are not meeting the need. Consumers today want snacks that can improve their health and wellness—but not at the expense of delicious taste and a pleasurable snacking experience.

This is why many of the most successful recent snack launches balance health and indulgence. While savvy formulation and marketing are essential to these successes, innovative ingredient solutions provide the building blocks to create these exciting, healthy, indulgent snacks.

Rising Demand for Better-for-You Snacks: A Look at the Numbers

Both snacking interest and frequency during different dayparts are increasing. 50% of consumers often eat snacks instead of a meal because they’re on the go (up 6.3 percentage points (pp) vs. five years ago),¹ while 57% like to eat snacks that add excitement to their daily diet (+7.2 pp).²

More than half (52%) of US consumers claim that health and wellness are top priorities.³ This shift is clearly showing up in snacking choices. 62% of consumers actively seek items that are good for them as part of the role of snacking (+4.8 pp), and 54% consider snacks to be an important part of their healthy eating plan throughout the day (+4.7 pp).⁴

The health and wellness concerns most on consumers’ minds include:

• Improving or maintaining physical health
• Keeping or achieving a healthy weight
• Improving or maintaining mental health
• Keeping the heart healthy
• Increasing longevity
• Reducing or managing stress

Better-for-You Snacking Solutions

To help you address these new snacking needs, we’ll be featuring a range of ingredient solutions ideal for a variety of snacking formats—from savory snacks and baked goods to cereals and bars—that make it easier than ever to balance health and indulgence.

Protein Innovation

Protein leads the way as the macronutrient consumers desire most. At our booth, you can explore the versatility and opportunities made possible with Crunchie™ Protein Crisps, Bites, Curls, and Loops. These semi-finished protein pieces can be used as stand-alone cereals and snacks or as inclusions in other products, such as bars and baked goods.

Flavorful Functionality

With our booth located next to that of our flavor company, Foodarom, (Booth #3465), we’ll also be showcasing the synergistic formulation capability we offer to help customers create products with exceptional functionality, nutrition, and flavor. For craveable indulgent, without compromise, think Foodarom. Better-for-you snacks never tasted so good.

Your Ingredient Partner for Healthy Indulgent Snacks

Glanbia Nutritionals is insights driven with a focus on ingredient innovation and unmatched customer product development collaboration and support. We are your go-to partner in unlocking the full potential of better-for-you snacking solutions for all types of consumers.

Our team is looking forward to seeing you at SupplySide West and showing you our latest ingredients for better-for-you snacking! Reach out to learn more about our innovative snacking solutions.

References

1. Circana, 2024 Snacking Survey, 2024.
2. Circana/National Eating Trends® (NET®), year ending December 2023.
3. Glanbia Nutritionals, Health & Wellness Consumer Attitude & Usage Study - US, 2023.
4. Circana/National Eating Trends® (NET®), year ending December 2023