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Home Run Hot Dog potato chips were featured on the Food Network’s Unwrapped during an episode on “All American Eats” last year. The chips are loaded with the classic hot dog flavor smothered with mustard and relish. Earlier this year, Herr Foods, Inc., Nottingham, PA, loaded its kettle-cooked chips with popular baked potato toppings like cheddar cheese, sour cream, bacon and green onions. “The new Loaded Baked Potato Kettle Chips are the perfect side for any main course,” the company noted. Then, to help folks celebrate National Chip and Dip Day on March 23, the company launched Lattice Cut Kettle chips, which have a crisscrossed cut that lets dip seep deep into the chip’s crisp crevices. Made from thick-sliced choice potatoes slow-cooked in small batches and then sprinkled with sea salt, Herr’s Lattice Cut Kettle Chips are a superior dipping chip, according to the company. Old Dutch Foods, Roseville, MN, spiced things up with Salt and Cracked Black Pepper variety under its Dutch Crunch line. The snack comes in 2- and 8-oz bags. Under its Dutch Gourmet brand, the company now offers Thick-Cut Habanero with Lime potato chips. Utz Quality Foods, Hanover, PA, markets six different lines of potato chips under the Utz brand: regular, Kettle Classics, Grandma Utz, Mystic, baked and its natural products. In last year’s report, Utz Natural potato chips experienced a 9% sales increase; however, this year, the natural chips’ sales dipped nearly 12%. And while its regular potato chip

sales remained stable, dollar sales of Utz Kettle potato chips climbed 62.8%. One of Utz’s newer products is a kettle chip that also has healthier attributes. Reduced Fat Smokin’ Sweet Kettle Classic Potato Chips “feature the popular Smokin’ Sweet seasoning but with 40% less fat than regular potato chips,” according to the company’s website. Last year, Utz acquired Zappe Endeavors, adding the Zapp’s, Dirty and California potato chip brands to its portfolio of products. Although potato chips are often viewed as an indulgent snack, Hungry Girl, which is a free daily email subscription service about healthy eating, placed several reduced-fat potato chips on its 2012 Official Shopping List. Those included on the list are Popchips, Kettle Brand Baked, Baked! Lay’s, Pringles Light, Cape Cod 40% Less Fat and Michael Season’s Baked single-serving snacks. Better Made Snack Foods, Detroit, MI, introduced Lightly Salted Original Potato Chips with 50% less sodium in the past year. “We started research and development for this item about one year ago and created what we think is a great tasting chip,” said Mark Costello, the company’s vice-president of sales and marketing, at the time of the chip’s launch late last summer. Inventure Foods, Phoenix, AZ, which offers potato chips under the Boulder Canyon Natural Foods brand, hopes to set its products apart from others by offering them in fully compostable bags. — Shane Whitaker

TORILLA CHIPS

Nacho Average Chips
Tortilla chips are in a league of their own. Today chips are being spiced up and mixed for greater flavors and better health benefits. Through the use of alternative grains and special ingredients, salted snack manufacturers continue to broaden the appeal of tortilla chips. Axium Foods, South Beloit, IL, launched its Mystic Harvest brand earlier this year with two tortilla chips products that “leverage the ancient health benefits of purple corn,” according to the company. Mystic Harvest’s Authentic Tortilla Chips with Sea Salt and Multi-Grain Tortilla Chips both offer 25% more antioxidants than blueberries per serving, according to Cindy Kuester, the company’s vicepresident of sales and marketing. The products’ non-GM purple corn is bred for the highest level of antioxidants, she added, and Axium had the tortilla chips tested to determine their Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) score, which measures the antioxidant value of foods. Mystic Harvest’s chips scored 6,000 compared with 4,669 for blueberries, according to the company. Anthocyanins, the naturally occurring pigments responsible
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Snack World - May 2012
Features
Letter from SFA - Opportunities for Growth
Supplier’s Corner - Keep Moving Forward
75th Anniversary - Forging Ahead in the New Millennium
75th Anniversary - Building an Association
75th Anniversary - Technology and TV
State of the Industry Report - Opportunity with a Dose of Caution
State of the Industry Report - Potato Chips
State of the Industry Report - Tortilla Chips
State of the Industry Report - Pretzels
State of the Industry Report - Crackers
State of the Industry Report - Cookies
State of the Industry Report - Corn Snacks
State of the Industry Report - Snack Nuts and Seeds
State of the Industry Report - Cheese Snacks
State of the Industry Report - Pork Rinds
State of the Industry Report - Meat Snacks
State of the Industry Report - RTE Popcorn/Microwave Popcorn
State of the Industry Report - Other Salty Snacks
State of the Industry Report - Dips, Salsa and Spreads
Government Affairs - Taking it to Capitol Hill
SNAXPO 75th Anniversary - Cause to Celebrate
New Snacks
Products & Services
Ad Index
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Snack World - May 2012 - Features
Snack World - May 2012 - Letter from SFA - Opportunities for Growth
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Snack World - May 2012 - Supplier’s Corner - Keep Moving Forward
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Snack World - May 2012 - 75th Anniversary - Forging Ahead in the New Millennium
Snack World - May 2012 - 75th Anniversary - Building an Association
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Snack World - May 2012 - 75th Anniversary - Technology and TV
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Snack World - May 2012 - State of the Industry Report - Opportunity with a Dose of Caution
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Snack World - May 2012 - State of the Industry Report - Potato Chips
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Snack World - May 2012 - State of the Industry Report - Tortilla Chips
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Snack World - May 2012 - State of the Industry Report - Pretzels
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Snack World - May 2012 - State of the Industry Report - Crackers
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Snack World - May 2012 - State of the Industry Report - Cookies
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Snack World - May 2012 - State of the Industry Report - Corn Snacks
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Snack World - May 2012 - State of the Industry Report - Snack Nuts and Seeds
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Snack World - May 2012 - State of the Industry Report - Cheese Snacks
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Snack World - May 2012 - State of the Industry Report - Pork Rinds
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Snack World - May 2012 - State of the Industry Report - Meat Snacks
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Snack World - May 2012 - State of the Industry Report - RTE Popcorn/Microwave Popcorn
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Snack World - May 2012 - State of the Industry Report - Other Salty Snacks
Snack World - May 2012 - State of the Industry Report - Dips, Salsa and Spreads
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Snack World - May 2012 - Government Affairs - Taking it to Capitol Hill
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Snack World - May 2012 - SNAXPO 75th Anniversary - Cause to Celebrate
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Snack World - May 2012 - New Snacks
Snack World - May 2012 - Products & Services
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Snack World - May 2012 - Ad Index
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