WHAT ARE SNACK PELLETS?

The most versatile food technology that exists today for Snacks. It provides a wide array of ingredients, nutritional values, shapes, densities and flavors that enables the most versatile snacking solutions to address Better-for-You, Mainstream and Ethnic trends in the Snacks Market.

WHY PELLETS WORK FOR SNACK MANUFACTURERS

Pellets have many advantages for Snack Manufacturers

  • Captures complex pieces of the manufacturing process in the pellet itself making the downstream snack process simple and efficient, requiring low capex investment
  • Pre-pop ambient long shelf life of 18+ months
  • Travels and stores efficiently due to high density, allowing effective logistics

Pellets deliver a wide variety of forms, flavors and great experiences

  • Versatile ingredient bases: vegetable (potato, veggies, legumes, roots), grains/seeds (wheat, corn, rice, chia), protein/animal (chickpea, lentil, pork)
  • Inclusions: Ability to add/mix functional foods for health benefits and enhancements
  • In-bag product mixes: Multiple shapes, ingredients, flavors and textures
  • A great carrier for flavors: savory, sweet, spicy
  • Versatile forms and shapes in flat and 3D formats: wheels, squares, twists, cones, triangles, food carriers, etc.
  • Low snack product density delivers full bags with many trips to the mouth
  • Popular, authentic, snack in multiple geographies (e.g., Latin America, Asia, Europe)
  • Allows for multi-cultural snack innovation, leveraging the strong Hispanic Heritage of the company

Pellets deliver an attractive business proposition for customers

  • Provides best snack margins for all business chain players
  • Versatile and flexible portfolio to drive innovation and global flavors