Jennifer Barney

If you are a beverage or confectionary brand you know that SNAP benefits in certain states are restricting purchases in your category. What does this mean for brands? What if your products are coded as soda or candy? Early data shows there are behavioral shifts happening that may affect these categories in the long term. Before we get into it — I’ve written about produce brands and produce retail marketing, which I still don’t totally get.

I interviewed the CEO of regenerative meat brand Force of Nature at Expo West, and since then I’ve been cooking through their wild game box at home. The other night I made this venison ragù and it was excellent. Robby Sansom was formerly the CFO/COO behind EPIC Provisions which sold to General Mills in 2016, before starting Force of Nature, the company he now leads. Force of Nature is definitely a more ambitious, structurally complicated business, selling across DTC, retail, and foodservice.

I don’t know any founder in food and beverage that does not want a Siete or Poppi-like exit. But y’all know that is highly rare and unlikely, so what kind of exit is actually possible? Also in this post: 🍝 Dry pasta gets sexy 🚜 Right to Repair gets funny 🫙 Do we need more Front-of-Pack labeling regulation? I’ve been enjoying 3 Farm Daughter’s pasta made from a special high amylose variety wheat that provides more fiber. So it’s prebiotic pasta that looks and tastes high end.