Mintel: Meat Snacks Are Growing Faster Than Potato Chips

Bakeryandsnacks.com recently published an article about the fastest growing sub-segment of salted snacks in the US - meat snacks. The article cites Mintel and says that meat snacks are the third biggest category of salty snacks in the US. Meat snacks include jerky, pork scratchings, salami sticks, kabanosy and biltong. Sales grew over 6 percent, following a 12 percent growth prior to that, with a dollar sales amount of $3.3 billion. Potato chips still reign, with a sales dollar amount of $8.2 billion, but growth was only 1.3 percent.