Margeaux Walter FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

America Is Binging on Snacks, and Food Companies Are Eating It Up

The ‘snack-ification’ of U.S. diets has cookie and candy giants drooling

U.S. consumers are gorging on snacks, fueling boom times for cookie and candy giants while other packaged-food companies vie for bigger shares of the snack aisle. 

Nearly half of U.S. consumers are eating three or more snacks a day, up 8% in the past two years, according to Circana Group, a market-research firm. U.S. snack sales rose to $181 billion last year, up 11% from the year prior, the firm said.

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