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Blue Bell Rolls Out New Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Flavor

Blue Bell is combining two consumer favorites in its latest ice cream flavor, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Ice Cream. It combines chocolate ice cream with peanut butter cookie dough pieces and milk chocolate chunks. The new flavor is arriving in stores this week. “We have made flavors with chocolate and peanut butter before, but […]

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New York, Philadelphia & Miami Top Best Cities For Fresh Food Access

New York is the best city for fresh-food access, with 75 percent of its residents living within a five-minute walk of a grocery store or year-round farmers market, followed by Philadelphia at 64 percent and Miami at 57 percent. This is according to a new report by real estate brokerage Redfin, which analyzed Walk Score data for 48 major […]

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RifRaf Ricotta Snack Cups Launching In Select Whole Foods Stores

RifRaf Ricotta Cups—a first-of-its-kind ricotta cheese snack, according to startup company RifRaf—are coming to the dairy aisle at select Whole Foods Market stores. Combining spoonable, lightly cultured whole milk ricotta and a sidecar of flavored jams and honeys, RifRaf hopes to “upset an otherwise uniform yogurt category.” The Ricotta Cups will launch in five inaugural flavors: […]

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El Super To Acquire Fiesta Mart, Creating 122-Store Company

Bodega Latina Corp., doing business as El Super, a U.S. Hispanic grocer and a subsidiary of Grupo Comercial Chedraui, S.A.B. DE C.V., has agreed to acquire Fiesta Mart LLC. Fiesta, a portfolio company of ACON Investments LL, is a Texas-based international food retailer with an emphasis on the Hispanic segment, operating 63 stores primarily in […]

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National Milk Producers Federation Lauds Spending Bill For Dairy Pride Act Language

The congressional spending bill signed by the President on March 23 directs the FDA to take action against imitation dairy foods, “representing a victory for farmers and consumers alike,” said the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) in a response to the bill. The omnibus spending bill to fund the government for the remainder of Fiscal […]

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Recommended: Nearly 200 Cheeses Are Sold At Harmons Grocery Stores In Utah, And This 32-Year-Old Has Eaten Them All

Mariah Christensen has every cheese lover’s dream job — traveling, tasting and deciding which of the world’s cheddars, goudas and mozzarellas should be sold at Harmons Grocery Stores in Utah. The 32-year-old specialty cheese buyer is good at it, too. She recently was inducted into the Guilde Internationale des Fromagers, the French name for the […]

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V&V Supremo Mexican Cheese Sweeps World Championship Awards

V&V Supremo Foods took home the gold at The World Championship Cheese Contest last week—a record-setting year for the event, with 3,402 entries from 26 countries. V&V won the gold, silver and bronze medals in the Latin American Melting Cheese class and has now won first place in the Latin American Melting Cheese class at […]

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Frozen Yogurt Robots Heading To Grocery Stores Nationwide This Spring

A horde of frozen yogurt robots will begin arriving at select grocery retailers in 17 U.S. states this spring. The robots, from Reis & Irvy’s, a subsidiary franchise concept of Generation Next Franchise Brands Inc., are intended to provide a “fun and delicious experience” to shoppers, while generating additional revenue for grocery stores. Launched in early […]