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This plant-based dessert is made with cashews, almonds, Belgian dark chocolate and coconut milk

Take-home sales of own-label meat-free and vegan-friendly items are up 20.3% over the past year

This long-standing option is one of Iceland’s products to have recently had palm oil removed

The UK’s crisps sector has grown by 3.6% to £914.5m in take-home value sales amid a flurry of NPD

Take-home value sales of individually wrapped chocolate assortments have hit £224m

Free-from continues to be a bonanza for grocery

Supermarket shoppers took home an extra 33.5 million litres of flavoured water last year

Exotic Mango and Feisty Cherry are the brand’s first new flavours since 2003

Ice cream’s value is soaring. Take-home sales rose by 7.2% last year to £969.2m due to price increases

Burts last month launched its latest tie-up with an alcohol brand

Canned fruit had much-needed value pumped into it last year

Mr Lee’s, the healthier pot noodle startup, dramatically overhauled its SKUs last summer

Nuts are expected to be the fastest-growing category in snacks over the next five years

CCEP unveiled this sugar-free Sprite variant in February as part of a strategy to broaden its portfolio of drinks unaffected by April’s sugar tax

Ginsters is the UK’s top savoury pastry brand. It sold an extra 3.2 million units last year

Unilever unveiled its new Marmite variant last month

After three years of value decline, the sweet biscuits category returned to growth in 2017

Bottled water is buoyant. Brits downed an extra 103.6 million litres over the past year

In January, Kellogg’s rolled out WK Kellogg – a vegan-friendly cereal range featuring organic and no-added-sugar variants

For the past few years, cold-brew coffee – coffee infused with cold water overnight – has been the hip alternative to traditional energy drinks

Jacobs launched its three-strong Ciabatta cracker range to tap “the growing trend of lighter offerings for lunch”