Dried cocoa beans at the Somos Cacao farm and production facility in Ragonvalia, Norte de Santader department, Colombia, on Friday, March 22, 2024. Ferley Ospina | Bloomberg | Getty Images There’s pricing pressure taking hold of a specific corner of global agriculture — and it’s bittersweet. Prices of cocoa have more than tripled over the … Read more
Anna Bizon | Gallo Images Roots Rf Collection | Getty Images President Joe Biden took to social media ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday to take a jab at snack companies that are giving consumers less food for their money. The phenomenon called shrinkflation — where consumer products become smaller in quantity, size or … Read more
Sixty years after their invention, Pop-Tarts remain beloved by consumers who bought about three billion of them in 2022. “We didn’t realize that this thing was going to go as well as it did,” said 96-year-old Bill Post, who helped develop Pop-Tarts in the early 1960s. “It went beyond any expectations we had.” Post remembers … Read more
