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Grocery aisles that once ran on sugar counts now run on grams of fiber. Fortune Business Insights values the global healthy foods market at $1,150.75 billion in 2025, projecting growth to $2,343.63 billion by 2034 at a compound annual growth rate of 8.22%. Seven of the country’s largest food and beverage makers have spent the past eighteen months reformulating, launching and acquiring their way into that curve.
Some are chasing gut health. Others are chasing protein grams or stripping out synthetic dyes ahead of federal pressure. The companies below show how differently a single trend line can be interpreted once it reaches a boardroom.
PepsiCo
PepsiCo acquired prebiotic soda brand Poppi for close to $2 billion in March 2025, then, two months later, launched Pepsi Prebiotic Cola, its own 30-calorie, 5-gram sugar reformulation with 3 grams of prebiotic fiber.
Ram Krishnan, chief executive of PepsiCo Beverages U.S., called the release the next leap forward in giving consumers choice, optionality and functional ingredients.
The company widened its bet further in August 2026, bringing Spanish chilled soup brand Alvalle into US refrigerated aisles for the first time.
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola introduced Simply Pop in February 2025, using its Simply juice line as the base for a prebiotic soda carrying 6 grams of fiber per can, ahead of Poppi’s 2 grams and behind Olipop’s 9 grams.
Becca Kerr, the company’s chief executive of nutrition, said wellness-focused Gen Z and millennial shoppers were really interested in juice and prebiotic sodas.
The launch followed Coca-Cola reporting $47 billion in 2024 revenue, a scale that let it enter a category Olipop and Poppi had spent five years building from scratch.
Kraft Heinz
Kraft Heinz announced in June 2025 that it will remove all remaining FD&C artificial dyes from its US products by the end of 2027 and will not launch new products containing them.
Nearly 90% of Kraft Heinz’s US portfolio was already free of synthetic dyes at the time of the announcement, a figure the company disclosed alongside its pledge.
General Mills
Hours after Kraft Heinz’s announcement, General Mills said it would remove certified colors from its US cereals and all K-12 school foods by summer 2026, with its full retail portfolio following by 2027.
Chairman and chief executive Jeff Harmening framed the shift as consistent with the company’s history, noting General Mills has moved quickly to meet evolving consumer needs.
Roughly 85% of its US retail foods were already made without artificial dyes before the pledge.
Nestlé
Nestlé launched Vital Pursuit, a line of 14 frozen meals including sandwiches, pizzas and bowls, developed at the company’s research center in Ohio and marketed toward people using GLP-1 medications.
The line reflects a broader shift among frozen food makers toward smaller portions and higher protein content as GLP-1 prescriptions have reshaped national grocery shopping patterns.
Mondelez
Mondelez International launched its first Clif High Protein bars in August 2026, each carrying 20 grams of protein and 5 grams of fiber in peanut butter chocolate chip and cinnamon French toast flavors.
The bars were meant to offer a unique duality: 20 grams of protein with everyday energy. The company paired that launch with new Perfect Snacks bars with 3 grams of prebiotic fiber, extending the same protein-and-fiber push across two separate brands in its portfolio.
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Kellanova
Kellanova’s RXBAR brand released RXBAR High Protein in June 2025, a plant-based, gluten-free bar made with six ingredients and sweetened with organic agave nectar, delivering 18 grams of protein per bar.
In the formulation, pea protein and peanut butter served as their texture architect and protein powerhouse.
The bar’s short ingredient list contrasts with Nestlé’s engineered frozen meals and Coca-Cola’s fortified sodas, showing that better for you can mean either addition or subtraction, depending on the brand.
The seven companies are chasing the same shopper from different aisles
Soda makers are adding fiber. Snack makers are adding protein. Packaged food giants are subtracting synthetic color. Each strategy points back to the same $2.3 trillion projection. Still, tactics diverge by category, timeline, and how much each company is willing to reformulate an existing brand versus building or buying a new one entirely.
Whether shoppers reward reformulation over acquisition, or protein claims over dye-free labels, will show up first in quarterly earnings, not press releases. PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Kraft Heinz, General Mills, Nestlé, Mondelez and Kellanova have each placed a different bet on what health-conscious actually means to the American grocery shopper in 2026, and the next several earnings cycles will start separating which bets paid off from which ones followed the crowd.
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