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Author: Kariya
Recently, the 2022 Confectionery & Snack Innovation Awards in the United States announced the list of winners, including Hershey, Mars, Ferrero, Lindt, Bufanmere and other top confectionery companies in the world to bring new innovative products launched this year to evaluate. The award uses four weighted criteria to evaluate each product, including taste, packaging, innovation and market recognition, representing the innovative trends in confectionery and snack products in the world today.
Candy category
Winner
Trü Frü: Strawberry filling cream white chocolate
Using 100% fresh strawberries and a unique drying technique to preserve the sweet and sour taste and nutrition of strawberries, it is wrapped in creamy white chocolate and sprinkled with natural strawberry powder for enhanced flavor.
Finalist Award
1) Ferrero: Milk hazelnut chocolate bar
Combine milk chocolate with crunchy hazelnut granules and cream fillings for a delightful sensory experience.
2) Sconza Candy : Almond milk chocolate bars (Spanish fritter flavor)
Spanish fritter-flavored products grew by 27.39% a year last year, and this chocolate is infused with roasted almonds, toffee, cream and cinnamon to create a unique exotic experience.
3) GATSBY: Peanut butter low calorie chocolate cup
Full peanut butter is wrapped in a square dark chocolate cup, each serving contains 70 calories and 4g sugar. GATSBY uses ingredients such as allulose and MCT oil to reduce extra calories and sugar without affecting taste or texture, in line with a ketogenic diet.
4) OCHO Candy: Plant-based caramel chocolate fill
OCHO Candy uses plant-based butter to produce the first vegan chocolate caramel, which is close to traditional caramel in taste and flavor, with four flavors: classic, chocolate, coffee and cinnamon.
Snack category
Winner
Ferrero: Nutella B-Ready
Nutella B-Ready is a delicious, light-tasting, individually wrapped snack bar that's covered in crispy wheat-toasted wafers filled with creamy hazelnut spreads that contain 110 calories and 2 grams of fat per serving.
Finalist Award
1) Tate's Bake Shop: Vegan vanilla maple cookies
It's a bakery-quality vegan snack in two flavors: chocolate chip cookies and vanilla maple cookies. These crackers are certified vegetarian products made with vegetable butter. The vanilla maple sugar flavor combines the fragrance of vanilla with the sweetness of maple sugar, and the appearance is golden yellow.
2) Second Nature Brands: Sea salt caramel mixed snack
Combine a bite-sized sea salt caramel-flavored mini chocolate with a blend of premium almonds, cashews and pecans, as well as dried strawberries, to form a gluten-free snack combination that combines sweet and savory.
3) Chunk Nibbles: Mixed snack chunks
This chunky snack combines sweet and savory and comes in four flavors: peanut butter chocolate, strawberry, plain, and s'more. Based on salted pretzels, tortillas, walnuts and salted peanuts, desserts such as chocolate, dried strawberries, and marshmallows are added for easy consumption.
Chewing gum and mints categories
Winner
Mars: Wrigley EXTRA Refreshers Fruity Mix Xylitol Sugar Free Gum
Combined with 3 fan-favorite flavors: cool strawberry, tropical fruit and chilled lemonade, it's a refreshing flavor designed for summer to help refresh your mind. The gum is wrapped in unique soft chewing particles that provide a multi-sensory chewing experience and long-lasting flavor.
Finalist Award
1) Extraordinary Di Van Merle : Berry flavored vitamin gum
The vitamin-containing Mantos Gum introduces a new flavor of berries, wrapping the berry sandwich inside the gum colloid. Chew 2 tablets of gum for 10 minutes to provide additional vitamins with 30% of the recommended daily values of vitamins B6, B12 and C.
2) Ferrero: Tic Tac® strawberry cream gum
Available in combinations of strawberry and cream flavours, this gum can be eaten separately or mixed and matched for a different sensory experience.
3) Charms Company: Lollipop chewing gum
The outer layer is chewing gum, and the inside is crushed lollipop, which comes in four flavors: blueberry, cherry, green apple and grape.
4) Rev Gum: REV Energy Glue
Classic spearmint flavored chewing gum that provides energy to the human body, the product is sugar-free, the regular version contains 60 mg of caffeine (equivalent to a cup of espresso), and there is also a choice of enhanced versions.
Chocolate category
Winner
Lindt: Oat milk chocolate
Launched this year, The plant-based chocolate of Lindt has the rich flavor and creamy creamy texture of Lindt Classic Chocolate, made with the highest quality cocoa and oat milk. Each chocolate bar is divided into bite-sized pieces for easy sharing anywhere.
Finalist Award
1) Good time: Full cup of potato chips chocolate cup
Fill a chocolate cup with potato chips that combine sweet, salty, crunchy and other taste experiences with 180 calories per serving.
2) Mars: TWIX salted caramel cookie stick
Three layers of sandwich caramel cream chocolate bars, plus a pinch of salt, bring a whole new crunchy and sweet experience. This candy offers a combination of creamy milk chocolate, salted caramel and cracker bars.
3) Mars: M&M's Chocolate Chip Cookie Beans
Combining two fan-favorite classic delicacies: M&M'S Beans and Chocolate Chip Cookies, this product features a delicious cookie-centric, covered in classic milk chocolate, and all wrapped in a colorful, iconic M&M'S bean shell.
Non-chocolate candy category
Winner
Ferrara: Berry flavored gummies
It's an innovative form of fudge that surrounds a berry-flavored fudge center and is wrapped in a rainbow-colored crunchy grain that can be exploded to provide a dual taste and texture.
Finalist Award
1) Bazooka Candy: Juicy Drop® mixed with gummies
A gel with sweet and sour flavors that can be eaten with a sour sauce to create the perfect combination of sweet and sour.
2) Ferrara: Double layer of gummies
Combining sweet and sour, each gummy presents a fruity flavor in a vivid two-color color, with sweet on one side and sour on the other.
3) Mars: STARBURST inflatable candy
Unlike Mars' typical gums, STARBURST Airs is an inflatable fudge with a unique, soft and fluffy texture that has a sweet, fruity flavor but is soft and easy to chew.
Festival categories
Winner
Ferrero: Kinder Holidays Combined Countdown Calendar
This is a blind box calendar for the countdown to Christmas and contains 24 delicious snacks. It has a variety of unique children's snacks and graphics with a gingerbread house with a fun puzzle on the back.
Finalist Award
1) Jelly Belly Candy: Elk greeting card candy
This greeting card includes a cute reindeer design and a blister pack filled with cherry-flavored jelly beans.
2) Ferrero: Golden Egg Chocolate
Ferrero's Golden Egg Chocolate for Easter is filled with cream hazelnut fillings with hazelnuts and crispy wafer flakes, surrounded by exquisite milk chocolate shells.
Meat snack category
Winner
4505 Meats: Hot & Spicy sausages
Hot & Spicy is a spicy meat snack made from a blend of Serrano, jalapeno and red pepper that is low in calories and contains no sugar.
Finalist Award
1) Country Archer Provisions: Beef jerky with crushed pepper
This bite-sized beef jerky is made from grass-fed beef with the addition of organic crushed black pepper and dehydrated bell peppers and contains no other artificial additives.
2) PREVAIL Jerky: Lemongrass flavored beef jerky
Made from 100% grass-fed beef with no artificial preservatives, nitrates, hormones or antibiotics, it is high in protein, low in carbohydrates and sugars, with 12 grams of protein and 1.5 grams of fat per serving, naturally sweetened with coconut sugar.
Flavor snack category
Pecan Nation: Cinnamon flavored pecans
Coated with cinnamon in half a piece of hulled pecan, these healthy nuts are rich in antioxidants, magnesium, fiber and unsaturated fats.
Salty snack category
KrackCorn: Caramel popcorn
Crispy and delicious caramel sea salt flavored popcorn, using non-GMO corn, high fructose corn syrup.
Sweets category
Hershey: Reese's snack bar
Reese's snack bar is a crisp, savory and sweet combination featuring peanut butter cream, whole grain brown rice, crunchy roasted peanuts and creamy milk chocolate.
Fancy product categories
Jelly Belly Candy: Butter beer fudge
This is a Harry Potter IP-derived candy, which is a product that Harry Potter fans can't miss in the outer packaging of the retro-style wine barrel, filled with chewy candy blocks with the flavor of butter beer.
Best Presentation Award
Trü Frü: Ruby chocolate jelly strawberry
Fresh strawberries are freeze-dried to retain their sweet and sour taste, wrapped in ruby chocolate to create a unique flavor that contains only 60 calories per serving.
Best Small Business Innovation Award
Carrot Bacon: Smoked carrot jerky
Smoked vegetarian jerky made from carrots, in accordance with the clean label, is stocked with only olive oil, maple syrup, soy sauce, spices, salt, natural flavors, citric acid, and is rich in vitamins, minerals and fiber.
brief summary
From the taste point of view, the combination of sweet and salty, supplemented by spicy, the mixing of a variety of raw materials, the creation of a multi-flavor taste experience is the innovative direction of today's candy snacks; in the ingredients, as far as possible to streamline the ingredients, and add functional ingredients to increase the health attributes of candy snacks; in the raw materials, plant-based has been welcomed by the market, oat milk as the raw material of chocolate, vegetable butter as the raw material of the caramel cream, has become the best alternative raw materials.
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