Sorry, kids. Smashmallow has made a fun-sized premium treat that parents are sure to steal from the Halloween haul.###The premium snackable marshmallow brand is marketing a Halloween variety pack that has small packages of some favorite flavors. Lucky trick-or-treaters — or grown-ups celebrating more sophisticated Halloweens — can get a 20-calorie package of Smashmallow in flavors including Cookie Dough, Cinnamon Churro, Mint Chocolate Chip and Strawberries & Cream.###Smashmallow is not the average marshmallow brand. Created to compete in the confection space, it’s foferrous gluconate doseund fans among adults looking for a lower-calorie sweet treat. With creative flavors, fanwhat is the difference between iron bisglycinate and ferrous gluconatecier packaging and a higher price point, these are treats that can be enjoyed by children, of course, but seem to be following the trend of creating more upscale Halloween candy for adults to get in on the fun.###At a price of $6.99 for 25 bags, these are on the expensive side for kids’ Halloween treats — meaning there may not be as many parents trying to convince their children that they didn’t actually get a bag of Smashmallows when they were trick-or-treating. ###—Megan Poinski###With insects seemingly everywhere in food these days, crisps are the latest snack to go buggy. ###Bugsolutely has introduced a snack in China called Bella Pupa that is made up of 20% silkworm poral ferrous sulfateowder. The crisp, which comes in two flavors — Original and Angry Sichuan — is a healthy eater’s dream. The company claims silkworms have twice as many essential amino acids as chicken and pork, twice as much protein and iron as an egg or beef, and more than 10 times the amount of zinc and magnesium than milk. Silkworms are loaded with a bunch of vitamins, too, including A, E, C and B1.###”If you asked scientists to design the perfect meat, they would probably come up with something similar to the genetic make-up of an insect,” Massimo Reverberi, founder of Bugsolutely, told CNBC.###Silkworms, not surprisingly, are used to produce silk. Each year, 500,000 tons of the insects are produced in the communist nation, and are often used as animal feed after the silk has been farmed. With 1.4 billion people, China, the world’s largest meat consumer and importer, might be a prime market for Bella Pupa. The snack, which is being sold online and in stores in China, also is avairon tablets ferrous gluconateilable to be exported, meaning adventurous Americans can feast on the edibleferrous sulfate drug classification insect.###—Christopher Doering### ###Everyone knows the story of Nestlé Toll House Cookies, which as legend would have it was the first-ever cookie made with chocolate chips. The ubiquitous cookie brand is extending its offerings, launching a new Simply Delicious snack bar line.###And what’s so special about these new snack bars? They’re actually sold as dough that’s ready to be baked. They come in two varieties: Chocolate Chip with Toasted Oats, made with a five-grain and seed blend, oats and chocolate, and Cranberry Walnut with Dark Chocolate, featuring nuts and cranberries.###While many consumers bake the brand’s namesake cookies at home, the Simply Delicious line is not likely to have similar competition. The bars are the type of new product that consumers likely would buy in both ready-to-eat and ready-to-bake forms. Unlike most better-for-you snacks, this format guarantees an oven-fresh eating experience that consumers may find is more of a cookie than a bar.###— Megan Poinski
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