Seasonal flavor makes its way back to retail.
Mars Inc. brand Kind Snacks added fall flavors to its Kind Thins lineup with the launch of chocolate pumpkin spice and caramel apple cinnamon.
Chocolate pumpkin spice combines a spice blend with dark chocolate, almonds, peanuts and pumpkin. Caramel apple cinnamon features a caramel drizzle and coating combined with apple, cinnamon, almonds, peanuts and pecans. Both varieties are gluten-free and contain 100 calories.
McKee Foods will launch Big Pack Fall Party Cakes and Pumpkin Spice Mini Donuts as part of its Little Debbie brand of baked foods.
The big pack fall cakes are topped with white icing, orange stripes and colored sprinkles. Each package has six large, individually wrapped vanilla-flavored hex cakes. The pumpkin spice mini donuts are topped with a cinnamon-sugar coating to complement their soft, flavorful center.
“Whether you're hosting a seasonal gathering or packing lunches for loved ones, these cakes are guaranteed to bring a burst of autumn joy to every bite,” McKee Foods said.
Bobo’s brought back its pumpkin spice line, which features ingredients like cinnamon, cloves and pumpkin. The limited-edition flavor is available in oat bars and oat bites.
General Mills brand Lärabar is bringing back its pumpkin pie and apple pie bars for the fall season. The pumpkin pie bars feature a sweet-and-spicy flavor, while the apple pie bars combine almonds and walnuts with apples, cinnamon and raisins.
Chobani is reentering the pumpkin spice category with the debut of Chobani Oatmilk Pumpkin Spice.
The limited-time beverage offering combines the company’s whole grain oat milk formulation with pumpkin spice flavoring to create a lactose- and dairy-free variety of the popular seasonal flavor. Chobani’s plant-based milk joins the brand’s pumpkin spice portfolio alongside several returning products, including its zero-sugar pumpkin spice Greek yogurt, pumpkin spice blended Greek yogurt, pumpkin harvest crisps and pumpkin-spice flavored coffee creamer and oat coffee creamer.
Kraft Heinz Co.’s Philadelphia Cream Cheese brand is bringing back its pumpkin spice cream cheese for a limited time. Originally launched in 2013, the cream cheese is like “fall in a container,” according to the company. It may be added to everything from bagels to baked goods.
Premier Protein relaunched its pumpkin spice high protein shake, which can be drank by itself or added into other beverages like coffee. The shake features 30 grams of protein per bottle.
Plant-based beverage producer Elmhurst 1925 introduced limited-time offerings, including an apple pie spice blend and a low-calorie pumpkin spice oat creamer.
Elmhurst’s apple pie spice blend is formulated from six ingredients, including an oat-cashew base and the company’s lavender vanilla botanical blend, to deliver baked apple and buttery piecrust flavor notes. The product was developed as a clean label dairy alternative for several applications, such as plant-based coffee beverages, cocktails and baked foods. The pumpkin spice oat creamer is formulated with 1 gram of sugar and 15 calories per serving.
Better-for-you frozen dessert brand GoodPop added a new pumpkin spice latte pop. The dairy-free frozen treats are formulated from oat milk, pumpkin and cold-brew coffee, with no refined sugars or sugar alcohol sweeteners, and contain 60 calories per pop. GoodPop’s product is available in 4-count boxes, exclusively at Whole Foods Market locations, for a suggested retail price of $5.99.
Frozen dessert novelty brand My/Mochi is bringing back its fall flavor line for a limited time. The offerings add a seasonal twist to the My/Mochi’s snack format that combines ice cream and rice dough wrapping. Returning flavors include pumpkin spice, featuring cinnamon pumpkin spice ice cream, graham cracker and mochi dough, and apple pie á la mode, made with vanilla ice cream and a cinnamon spice apple filling.
D.F. Stauffer Biscuit Co., a subsidiary of Meiji America Inc., is adding two seasonal flavors to its revamped lineup of SNAPS cookies for a limited time.
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