Americans Love Trail Mix. Can Kar's New Packaging Make Them Buy More of It?

How to use a “Trail Mix” (aka Snack Mix)

At Tropical Foods, we sell over 60 different mixes, all with a unique taste and many potential applications for your business.

How to Make Healthier Trail Mix at Home

A bag of trail mix is the perfect crunchy, protein-packed snack. Watch this video to learn how to make some delicious and healthy tropical trail mix.

Common Supermarket Buys You Should Avoid at All Costs

Is it OK to skimp on a tip when you order takeout?

A reader is concerned that he is being a Scrooge when he buys food-to-go.

Surprising Ways Fast Food Packaging Harms Your Health

While US manufacturers have stopped using perchlorate and PFCs in food packaging, many fast foods are still using hazardous chemicals in their boxes and wrappers.

What the Elites Eat on the Trail

Consider upgrading your trail mix with one of these options.

Millennials blazing trends trail as franchisees

Millennials are crazy about fast casuals, healthy menu options and the independence restaurant technology affords, but are they a generation likely to be interested in owning a restaurant?

Tasteful Design: How Food Packaging Impacts Flavor

We don’t need to know terms like “multi-sensory integration,” “auditory cue modification” or “olfactory receptors” to get by in our daily lives. Most of us are more focused on not walking into a light post while texting. Yet, the new frontier of food packaging is being forged by researchers who throw around (and understand) terms

Nutrition Facts Label on Packaged Food Gets FDA Makeover

The FDA is changing Nutrition Facts label guidelines for packaged foods. Consumer Reports has details on how the new label will affect you.

Build Your Own Trail Mix [INFOGRAPHIC]

Welcome to the third installment of Food Insight’s Build Your Own Series! We are excited to share simple but tasty ways to spice up the healthiness of your favorite foods. Next up is Trail Mix -- the portable option that’s perfect for any adventure. If you’re new to trail mix or just want to...

Giant removes walnuts and trail mix due to recall

Giant Food Stores has removed certain Nature’s Promise Trail Mix and Walnuts from its stores after a recall.

12 items you should avoid buying at the grocery store

These are the 12 items you should avoid buying at the grocery store.

Is It Time For a Food Package Redesign?

Food brands owners often come to us when their current packaging design is hindering them from taking a brand to the next level. It’s gotten them to a certain point, but now they are ready to invest in a design that will dramatically increase sales.

What’s Cooking in Food Packaging?

Consumers have become accustomed to having a wide variety of foods available to them from all corners of the world, no matter what season it may be. The days of being able to eat what is grown or raised on your own plot of land are long gone, especially as the world becomes more urbanized.

20 Surprising Vegan Packaged Foods

Going vegan doesn't have to mean eating fruits and vegetables ALL the time. These vegan packaged foods are tasty and free of animal by-products.

How Much Do You Actually Love Potatoes?

6 things you didn’t know about your food shopping

For many of us, what happens before our food reaches our supermarket shelf is a bit of a mystery. How can we as customers, know whether the food we buy is free from human suffering?

Deli counter: Where is someone looking to be healthier to start?

Is it possible to buy a reasonably healthy lunch from a convenience store?

How To Bake Healthy, Delicious Trail Bars

Let’s talk about trail food. For some hikers, food on the trail is only as valuable as the calories it provides. For others, trail food is as important as route