This is your official July 2026 Aisle Report, where Grocery Girl breaks down the biggest new brands and product launches from the past month. Consider this your inside look at what just hit the grocery world and the names you’ll want to know before they’re everywhere….

THE NEW NAMES

On The Brightside

Meet the soda made for your nervous system. Each can has 15mg of Zembrin, a plant extract known for its calming benefits, in Guava Glow and Strawberry Sunshine.

Bessi

The cottage cheese craze isn’t slowing down. Bessi just turned it into high-protein ice cream with four flavors: Vanilla, Sweet Cream & Blackberry, Chocolate, and Lemon Shortbread.

Backflip

Looks like the cereal aisle has a new it-brand. Backflip is a lower-sugar, seed-oil-free cereal already at Target nationwide, created with YouTuber Ben Azelart and entrepreneur Shaun Neff and wrapped in the kind of colorful, nostalgic branding cereal has been missing.

DIRT

DIRT may have just won best-dressed olive oil. The new extra virgin olive oil is made with single-origin Koroneiki olives from Crete and packaged in a sleek tinted glass bottle.

Gritzy

Gritzy is bringing a modern update to a Southern staple. The new heat-and-eat stone-ground grits are ready in just 90 seconds, come in Classic and Buttery, and are Non-GMO Project Verified.

(Not So) Boring Rice

Somebody finally looked at the rice bag and saw an opportunity. (Not So) Boring Rice is two California-grown calrose varieties, white and sprouted brown, at $29.97 for a three-pack.

Dynasty

The latest move in hydration is all about women. Dynasty is a new electrolyte drink mix formulated specifically around women’s hormonal and metabolic needs, instead of taking the usual one-formula-fits-all approach.

DRINKS

Califia Farms - Banana Crème

Califia Farms just launched two limited-edition banana products: a Simple & Organic Banana Crème Almond Creamer and a Banana Crème Almondmilk Latte, both made with real banana purée. The creamer is organic and made without gums or oils, and both are available at Kroger, Amazon, and retailers nationwide.

The insider gossip: banana is quickly becoming one of the it flavors to watch. Califia won’t be the last brand to get in on it, so expect to see a lot more banana-flavored products hitting shelves soon.

C4 - Sparkling Protein

C4 made its name in energy drinks. Now it’s betting on the protein craze. The brand just launched a sparkling drink with 20 grams of protein and zero sugar in Strawberry Watermelon, Lemon Lime Fizz, and Cherry Vanilla. With Ozempic and other GLP-1s changing the way people eat, protein has become grocery’s hottest currency, and C4 clearly wants a piece of it.

Nello - Apple Rush

Nello built its name on powdered wellness drinks. Its next move? The energy aisle. The brand just launched Apple Rush, its first canned energy drink, made with green tea caffeine, L-theanine, and Alpha-GPC, and it’s already rolling out at Target.

Truvani - Electrolytes

Truvani is coming for the hydration aisle. The brand known for its clean-label protein powders just launched electrolytes in Strawberry, Lemon Lime, and Piña Colada, with no sugar, no stevia, and no synthetic citric acid.

Juni - Strawberry Lemonade and Watermelon Lemonade

Juni is a functional sparkling tea brand made with caffeine and adaptogens. It just launched Strawberry Lemonade and Watermelon Lemonade, both with zero sugar, 30mg of caffeine, ashwagandha, lion’s mane, and reishi.

FOOD

Rotten - Tiniez + Chewerz

Rotten just launched protein candy. The new Tiniez and Chewerz come in Original and Sour, with 11 grams of protein, 5 grams of prebiotic fiber, 40% less sugar, and no artificial dyes. Protein has officially made its way into the candy aisle.

Perfect Bar - Oaties

Perfect Bar built its name on refrigerated nut-butter protein bars. Now it is changing the recipe that made it famous. Oaties are the brand’s first oat-based bars, made with oat butter instead of nut butter, with 8 grams of protein in Oatmeal Cookie Dough and Brownie Batter. And yes, they still live in the fridge.

Sola - PB&J Bites

The PB&J aisle has another challenger, and this one came from the bread aisle. Sola's new Bites come in Grape & Peanut Butter and Strawberry & Peanut Butter, with 11 grams of protein, 17 grams of fiber, and no added sugar.

Frankly So - Zesty Ranch

Frankly So is taking a different approach to protein. Instead of another bar or shake, the brand makes crunchy whole wheat toppings with 10 grams of protein per serving. Zesty Ranch is the newest flavor and the first made for savory foods like salads and nachos.

Evergreen - Protein Waffles

Evergreen just joined the protein breakfast rush with a new Homestyle Protein Waffle. Each serving has 10 grams of protein from Greek yogurt and eggs, with no protein powder.

The Final Word

July brought protein candy, cottage cheese ice cream, 90-second grits, and a whole new class of brands trying to become your next grocery obsession. A few of these names are about to be everywhere. Others may quietly vanish from shelves before anyone notices. Grocery Girl already has a guess about which is which.

August, you’re up next. See you in the next Aisle Report...

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Dill pickle flavor continues to take over grocery shelves.

What used to be the spear sitting next to your sandwich is now showing up in everything from potato chips and protein pretzels to organic puffcorn, mayo, and even electrolyte packets you mix into your water. Brands keep launching new pickle products because shoppers keep buying them.

The latest available sales data puts pickle-flavored products at roughly $490 million, up nearly 34% year over year. The flavor is salty, sour, instantly recognizable, and naturally sugar-free, making it an easy fit for the better-for-you brands currently taking over the snack aisle.

Why Pickle And Why Now?

Gen Z helped make pickles popular by sharing taste tests, recipes, and viral snack combinations like chamoy pickle kits on TikTok. Food industry researchers now describe pickle flavor as a cultural phenomenon, not a passing trend. It has already expanded into pickle ranch, dill pickle popcorn, pickle-flavored nuts, and even limited-edition dill pickle Cup Noodles.

Pickle also already has a healthy reputation. Sour and fermented flavors are often associated with probiotics and gut health, giving pickle products an instant health halo. Brands did not need to reformulate their products or clean up their labels because the flavor already had built-in consumer approval.

The Pickle Products Taking Over

So who’s actually doing it? Grocery Girl did a little aisle digging…

Snackish: Pickle Punch

Snackish is the new potato chip brand from Tara Bosch, the founder of SmartSweets, and Pickle Punch was one of the 5 flavors chosen for its launch.

Each bag has 8g of potato protein and 3g of cassava fiber, and the chips are cooked in avocado oil instead of seed oils. They cost $4.99 and are rolling out at Target stores nationwide.

The real insider detail? Bosch could not find a manufacturer capable of making the exact chip she wanted, so she built her own 65,000-square-foot factory in Atlanta.

Kindling: Dill Pickle Power Twists

Kindling brought the pickle trend into the pretzel aisle with its Dill Pickle Power Twists.

Each serving has 8 grams of protein from wheat protein isolate and chickpeas. They are also made with 100% whole-grain wheat and contain no artificial flavors or high-fructose corn syrup. You can find them at Target, Kroger, and Harris Teeter.

The brand says it created the flavor because most pickle snacks taste more like straight vinegar than actual dill pickle. Kindling wanted this one to be tangy without completely overpowering the pretzel.

Frankie’s: Dill Pickle Puffcorn

Frankie’s is a family-owned snack company founded in Quebec, Canada, known for its light and airy organic puffcorn. Its Dill Pickle Puffcorn brings the trending flavor to a snack that feels completely different from the usual chip.

It is oven-baked instead of fried and made with organic ingredients and avocado oil. The result is a light, crunchy pickle snack without the heavy texture of a traditional potato chip.

Ayoh: Dill Pickle Mayo

Ayoh took the pickle trend beyond the snack aisle with its Dill Pickle Mayo, one of four flavors in the original lineup.

The 12-ounce squeeze bottle is made with an avocado oil base and real chopped pickles.

The real insider story is how quickly Ayoh grew. Within its first six months, the brand attracted more than 22,000 online customers and sold over 170,000 bottles while also building a presence in independent stores. It then raised $4.5 million and secured a nationwide Whole Foods deal just six weeks after closing the funding round. By July 2025, Ayoh was available at all Whole Foods locations nationwide.

Liquid I.V. x Grillo’s Pickles: Hydration Multiplier

This flavor started as a joke. Liquid I.V. first teased a pickle flavor on social media in 2024, then turned it into an April Fools’ post in 2025. It became one of the brand’s most popular posts and fans spent the next year flooding its comments, DMs, and inboxes asking for the flavor to become real.

Liquid I.V. listened and partnered with Grillo’s Pickles to make it happen. The drink mix combines cucumber, vinegar, and dill with a touch of sweetness, plus Liquid I.V.’s electrolyte and vitamin formula.

It is a limited-edition flavor sold exclusively on Liquid I.V.’s website while supplies last.

The Final Word

Pickle did not exactly sneak up on anyone.

Sales went up, retailers made room, and now the flavor is showing up in chips, puffcorn, pretzels, mayo, and even electrolyte packets.

Some of these products are built to last. The chips and mayo already have real retail distribution behind them. The Liquid I.V. collaboration, meanwhile, is a limited-edition flavor that only exists because the internet would not stop asking for it.

Either way, pickle has officially outgrown its spot next to the sandwich.

Until the next flavor takes over the aisle...

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Hello Aisle Insiders,

This is a Grocery Girl prediction. The snack aisle as you know it is about to look completely different and Ozempic is the reason why.

1 in 9 Americans is currently on a GLP-1 drug. Many on Ozempic are skipping the snack aisle entirely and buying more protein. That is not a trend. That is a crisis for every major snack brand in America and they all know it.

Conagra, the company behind Slim Jim, is already studying whether to shrink portion sizes. Nestlé launched its first new brand in nearly 30 years specifically built for GLP-1 users. General Mills and Danone are quietly repositioning their products around protein. Even Hershey is benefiting, their mints are up 8% because Ozempic causes bad breath and nobody is talking about that.

The brands that create smaller portions and higher protein are going to win the next decade.

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Grocery Girl's sources confirm: June was a big month. Consider this your insider gossip on every new product that dropped in the food world this June. New snacks, new drinks, new sauces, a frozen dessert with a lawsuit behind it, a celebrity pasta sauce nobody saw coming, and a coconut water with a name that broke the internet. The full June report starts now…

Good Nut

Tom Brady, seven-time Super Bowl champion, just launched a coconut water brand. It is called Good Nut. He refused to say the name in his own launch video. The brand is organic Vietnamese coconut water in three flavors, original, chocolate, and sparkling, no added sugar, no artificial anything, available exclusively on Gopuff for $3.29 a can. The chocolate flavor is reportedly the first certified organic chocolate coconut water on the market. Grocery Girl has seen a lot of celebrity food launches. This one has the best name by far.

David - Pints

You may have heard the rumors. Earlier this year, David protein bars were hit with a lawsuit claiming their bars had 400% more fat and 80% more calories than the label said. The lawsuit was dropped, and David launched a frozen dessert almost immediately after. Four flavors, 30 grams of protein per pint, sold out in 28 minutes on launch day. Worth noting: they cannot legally call it ice cream because the FDA requires a minimum fat content to use those words on a label, and David’s recipe is specifically designed to skip the fat. So frozen dessert it is. $90 for six pints.

Jesse & Ben’s - Crinkle Cut Fries

Two restaurant guys from Washington DC spent a decade running a food business and decided the frozen fry aisle needed saving. Jesse Konig and Ben Johnson launched Jesse & Ben’s in 2024 with one idea: a frozen french fry made with real ingredients and zero seed oils, cooked in 100% grass-fed beef tallow or avocado oil instead. The brand grew over 1,100% in 2025 and landed in over 3,500 stores including Whole Foods, Target, and Costco. They just dropped their crinkle cut beef tallow fries. The frozen fry aisle has not seen this kind of disruption in a very long time. Grocery Girl’s sources say the crinkle cut is the one to watch.

Date Better - Naked Dates

Michelle Valdez Wilton started Date Better in her home kitchen in 2022 with no outside funding, no shortcuts, just an idea: take a Medjool date, stuff it with nut butter, dip it in 85% organic dark chocolate, and call it a snack. It worked. Now she is at Whole Foods and expanding nationally. The latest drop is the Naked line, the same concept without the chocolate coating. Five flavors: peanut butter crunch, hazelnut butter, almond espresso butter, key lime pie, and snickerdoodle.

Barebells - Soft Candy

Barebells built its reputation on protein bars that taste like candy bars. Now it just launched actual candy. The Soft Candy line is inspired by classic Swedish candy and comes in three flavors: peach rings, watermelon, and sour cola. Each 55g bag has just 1 gram of sugar and 100 calories, compared to an average of 21 grams of sugar per serving in leading soft candy brands. Available on the Barebells website and TikTok Shop in a variety nine pack for $26.99. The protein bar brand just walked into the candy aisle and brought better ingredients with it.

Nomie

Roopa Annadatha spent her career in operations at Apple and Peloton. Then she had kids and discovered the same problem every parent knows: the convenient dinner option is almost never the nutritious one. She built Nomie to fix that. It is a line of just-add-water pantry meals for kids ages two to six that go from shelf to plate in under ten minutes. Three organic flavors: Butternut Mac & Cheese, Zucchini Pesto Pasta, and Black Bean & Veggie Rice. Each one packed with veggies, protein, and fiber. Pre-orders opened June 25 at getnomie.com with shipping starting in August. The kids’ meal category has needed this for a long time.

Unreal - Peanut Butter Drops

Unreal is a candy brand that has been quietly reimagining classic candy with cleaner ingredients since 2012. No artificial anything, less sugar, simpler formulas. Their latest drop is the Peanut Butter Drop, a chocolate-shelled peanut butter candy that goes directly after Reese’s Pieces territory. Four grams of protein and 33% less sugar than leading brands, coming in at 10 grams of sugar per serving. Same nostalgic concept, better ingredient label. The candy aisle has been overdue for this kind of competition. Unreal just made its move.

Sauz - Basic Basil Marinara

Sauz built its reputation on pasta sauces nobody expected. Miso garlic marinara. Jalapeño basil pesto. Brown butter sage alfredo. The brand that made the pasta sauce aisle interesting just launched a classic marinara and called it Basic. Here is the part worth knowing: Basic Basil Marinara started as an April Fools joke in 2024. The internet wanted it so badly that Sauz actually made it. Tomatoes, basil, olive oil, garlic, sea salt, and black pepper. More basil than any competing marinara on the shelf, $24.99 for a two pack. The joke became the product. Grocery Girl respects the commitment.

Khloud - Jalapeño Queso Protein Popcorn

Khloé Kardashian has a protein popcorn brand called Khloud and the latest flavor is Jalapeño Queso. Seven grams of protein per serving, available on TikTok Shop and at Wegmans. The celebrity food brand space is crowded. Khloud keeps finding ways to stay relevant. Jalapeño queso protein popcorn is not something Grocery Girl saw coming but the aisle has spoken.

B.T.R. Nation - Superfood Crispy Treats

The Rice Krispie treat has been the same since 1939 and nobody questioned it. B.T.R. Nation did. The superfood snack brand just launched a crispy treat made with organic brown rice and real honey, no refined sugar, no dairy, and no soy. Three flavors: classic vanilla, peanut butter, and cocoa. The childhood snack got the glow up it deserved. Grocery Girl’s inner child is thriving.

Magic Spoon - Protein Oatmeal

Magic Spoon built its name on high protein cereal that tasted like the sugary stuff you grew up on. Now it is coming for breakfast number two. Magic Spoon just launched a protein oatmeal with 15 grams of protein per serving, 6g of fiber, and only 1g of sugar. The brand that reinvented cereal is now coming for the oatmeal aisle.

Recess - Pink Lemonade

Recess is the canned relaxation drink that became a wellness staple for anyone trying to decompress without a glass of wine. Each can is loaded with magnesium, L-theanine, and lemon balm, ingredients known for taking the edge off without knocking you out. The latest flavor is Pink Lemonade, a strawberry lemonade version of the brand’s Mood line. Available in 12oz cans as part of the Out of Office Sampler variety pack on the brand’s website and Amazon. Stress relief never tasted this good.

Sweet Loren’s - Oatmeal Bars and Scones

Sweet Loren’s is the refrigerated cookie dough brand that made gluten free, dairy free, and allergen friendly baking feel effortless. Now it is moving into breakfast. The brand just launched two new ready to bake lines: Oatmeal Bars in chocolate chunk, apple cinnamon, and maple brown sugar, and Scones in chocolate chunk and cinnamon brown sugar. Both bake in under 15 minutes, free from gluten, dairy, and the top nine allergens. Fresh from the oven in fifteen minutes with an ingredient label you can actually read. Sweet Loren’s just made breakfast worth waking up for.

Smash Kitchen - Pasta Sauce

Glen Powell, the actor behind Top Gun Maverick and Hit Man, has a condiment brand called Smash Kitchen. It just entered the pasta and pizza sauce category for the first time with seven varieties: hot honey, classic, truffle, classic marinara, tomato basil, roasted garlic, and spicy marinara pasta sauces. All organic. Rao’s, take note.

Angels & Cowboys - Declaration of Rosé

To mark America’s 250th birthday, Sonoma County winery Angels & Cowboys released a limited edition rosé called the Declaration of Rosé. It is a Provençal-style blend made from Grenache, Syrah, Carignane, and Mourvèdre grapes, with a special commemorative label. Only 6,500 cases were made. $18 a bottle, available nationwide. The most patriotic rosé of the summer.

SVEDKA - Vodka Water

SVEDKA just dropped a Vodka Water line and the packaging alone is worth talking about. Four slim, clear cans with a bold color blocked band at the top, color coded by flavor: red for strawberry, green for lime, yellow for pineapple, and orange for mango. Each can is made with SVEDKA vodka and natural spring water, no artificial flavors, no added sugar, and comes in at 5% ABV and 100 calories.

June was packed. Better snacks, cleaner candy, a celebrity pasta sauce, a frozen dessert with a lawsuit behind it, and a Tom Brady coconut water with a name nobody saw coming. Grocery Girl covered it all. July is already on the radar. Check back soon for every food worth knowing.

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Your one and only source into the hottest new brands in the grocery aisle. Grocery Girl has been deep in the aisle, reading ingredient labels and stalking new brands so you do not have to. Five emerging food brands worth knowing now, before they end up on every shelf and every feed. Bookmark this. You will want to say you knew about them first…

Fields Good Cookies

Remember those cookies you would get at the mall? Warm, fresh out of the oven, the smell hitting you before you even walked past the counter. That was Mrs. Fields. Her daughter Ashley just launched her own cookie brand, and she did not go the nostalgia route. Fields Good launched this spring with three cookies that look and taste like a regular cookie but are packed with wellness ingredients: a chocolate focus cookie with creatine, a peanut butter protein cookie with 10g protein and 4g fiber, and an oatmeal raisin sleep cookie with L-theanine. Some would call it nepotism. The cookie business runs in the family either way.

Moo’d Up

Chocolate milk is back. Not for kids, for adults who finally have a version that makes sense. Moo’d Up is a powder mix you scoop into any milk and what comes out tastes like the chocolate milk you grew up on, except with 10g of collagen protein, 3g of sugar, and 15 vitamins and minerals per serving. No seed oils. No artificial anything. And sources confirm strawberry just dropped too. Grocery Girl’s inner child has never been more healed.

Motif Coffee Syrups

The syrup in your coffee has been getting away with a lot. High fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors, artificial colors, all hiding in something you add to your drink every single morning without thinking twice. Motif is here to expose it. Naturally sweetened with agave and allulose, 70% less sugar than leading brands, no artificial anything. Three flavors: vanilla, chocolate, pistachio, and cinnamon babka. The most ignored ingredient in your morning routine just got an overdue audit.

Woodstock Foods Banana Water

Coconut water has been the default hydration drink for over a decade. Sources say banana water is next. Woodstock Foods makes an organic banana water with just one ingredient, organic banana, that delivers 765mg of electrolytes from potassium and magnesium, plus vitamins A, B6, and C, zero added sugar, and zero artificial anything. It is made by pressing the water out of two varieties of heirloom bananas and retails at $2.99, slightly cheaper than coconut water. Same hydration aisle, better ingredient label, and a much better story. Grocery Girl has heard the whispers. Banana water is the one to watch.

Takeaways

The protein bar aisle has long been dominated by chalky, sweet bars that hurt your stomach more than help it. Takeaways walked in with cheese. A puffed snack bar built around real cheese with 12g of protein, 3g of fiber, and 120 calories per bar. Comes in three flavors: white cheddar, cheese pizza, and pepper jack. Gluten free, non-GMO, all nine essential amino acids, and no crumbs. The savory era of the protein bar just arrived and it is long overdue.

That is five brands worth saving, sharing, and shopping before everyone else catches on. A cookie reinvented by the daughter of a legend. A chocolate milk powder that finally makes sense for adults. A coffee syrup that exposed what has been hiding in your cabinet for years. A banana water that is quietly challenging the hydration aisle. And a cheese bar that had the nerve to walk into the protein aisle and actually belong there. The food world moves fast. Grocery Girl is here to make sure you are never behind. The aisle never sleeps and neither does Grocery Girl.

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Hello, Aisle Insiders.

May 2026 brought a wave of new food launches, and one trend stood out: the people behind the products became the entire story.

Over the course of four weeks, seven new launches hit shelves, each backed by a celebrity, a well-known industry leader, or a founder with a compelling story.

From Carrie Underwood to Novak Djokovic to Bethenny Frankel, the message was impossible to ignore. In 2026, a recognizable name has become one of the most valuable ingredients in a product launch.

Here are the food launches from May 2026 worth watching…

HiNote - Everyday Energy Daily Nutrition Drink Mix

Carrie Underwood has officially joined the celebrity wellness brand club. The country star co-founded HiNote, which just debuted its first product: Everyday Energy Daily Nutrition Drink Mix. The whole pitch is “sustained, jitter-free” daily nutrition for busy women, which is celebrity-wellness code for the exact demographic every founder has been quietly fighting over for the last two years. Carrie just walked in with a country tour, a built-in fanbase, and absolutely zero plans of losing. Whether the powder works or not, the marketing already does.

Koia – Dubai Chocolate Plant-Based Protein Shake

Dubai Chocolate continues to be one of the most popular flavors of the year, and now it has a protein shake. Koia just released an exclusive Dubai Chocolate Plant-Based Protein Shake with 18 grams of plant-based protein, 7 grams of prebiotic fiber, and 6 grams of sugar. For anyone who has not been on TikTok in two years: Dubai Chocolate is the pistachio-filled viral bar that broke the internet, and every food brand has been racing to get the flavor on a label since. Koia just got there with macros attached. The Dubai Chocolate takeover is officially nowhere near over.

Fancypants Baking Co. - Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies and Mini Snack Packs

Fancypants is playing the long game. The cookie brand quietly expanded its lineup this month with two new drops: Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies and Mini Snack Packs. The cookies are a slightly elevated take on a classic flavor combination. The Mini Snack Packs are Fancypants entering the single-serve cookie category, which has been one of the fastest-growing parts of the aisle for the last two years. While the rest of the food industry is busy losing its mind on viral flavors, Fancypants keeps building a cookie empire one calculated drop at a time.

NoBiggie – Sparkling Juice Drinks for Kids

NoBiggie is the kids’ beverage launch nobody saw coming. Co-founded by Ali Weiss, the former CMO of Glossier, and Aytunc Atabek, the former VP of Product at Vita Coco, NoBiggie just launched with a lineup of sparkling juice drinks made with real fruit juices and purées. No added sugar, no dyes, no artificial sweeteners, and 75% less sugar than the average juice box. The cans and 4-pack boxes come with interactive extras like gameboard inserts, dares, secret notes, and mantras, basically turning every juice box into an event. When a Glossier marketing brain and a Vita Coco product brain decide to come for kids’ beverages, this is what you get. The Glossier-to-juice-box pipeline is officially open.

Joy Supply

Joy Supply launched in early May out of Brooklyn with the kind of origin story other brands would kill to fabricate. The modern cookie brand built its debut around a real 1908 family recipe from founder Lindsay Leopold’s great-grandfather’s bakery in Monmouth, Illinois. The cookies are thin, crisp, and made with regeneratively grown whole-grain oats from a fifth-generation South Dakota farm, real butter, and straightforward ingredients. They launched with four flavors: Classic Oat, Dark Chocolate Chip, Salted Peanut, and White Chocolate Raspberry. The Classic Oat is the original 1908 recipe, while the others put a more modern spin on its crisp oat-cookie base. Some brands launch with a celebrity co-sign. Joy Supply launched with a recipe that has been in the family since 1908.

Cob Foods – Sorghum Tortilla Chips

The athlete-led CPG wave just gained a new player. Novak Djokovic co-founded Cob Foods with entrepreneur Jess Davidoff, but the brand did not start with chips. It first launched with popped sorghum, a corn-free alternative to popcorn, in flavors like Cacio e Pepe, Mediterranean Herb, Olive Oil & Pink Salt, and Seriously Cheesy. Now Cob is expanding the line with Corn-Free Sorghum Tortilla Chips. The chips are made with just sorghum, avocado oil, and pink salt, making them corn-free, seed oil-free, and gluten-free.

MUSH x Bethenny Frankel – Mocha Latte Protein Overnight Oats

Bethenny Frankel is back in the grocery store. The Real Housewives alum and Skinnygirl founder just teamed up with MUSH to launch Mocha Latte Protein Overnight Oats, dropping exclusively at Target. Bethenny built Skinnygirl into a $100 million empire over a decade ago and has been quietly hunting for her next CPG hit ever since. MUSH happens to be one of the fastest-growing brands in the refrigerated aisle. Bethenny does not lend her name to brands. She picks winners and joins them.

The Final Word

If May proved one thing, it is that the grocery aisle in 2026 is no longer a place where unknown brands quietly build their way up. The shelf is officially Hollywood now. Country stars get nutrition drinks. Tennis legends get chip brands. Real Housewives get oat collabs.

Whether you love it or roll your eyes at it, the pattern is undeniable. The brands winning in 2026 are the ones with a story attached. The product still has to deliver. But the name attached to it now does half the heavy lifting.

Grocery Girl will see what June brings.

Until the next aisle report…

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What started as a red, white, and blue popsicle has become one of summer’s biggest flavor trends.

Every summer, Bomb Pop comes back. But this year, it is showing up way beyond the freezer aisle. The ice cream truck classic has turned into a full grocery trend, with cherry, lime, and blue raspberry popping up in prebiotic sodas, energy drinks, cookies, and sour candy.

And the timing makes sense. Fourth of July is when grocery shelves go all in on red, white, blue, nostalgia, and limited-edition flavors. Bomb Pop has the color, the flavor combo, and the childhood memory built in, so brands are taking that exact feeling and putting it into everything.

Grocery Girl tracked down the five brands doing it best right now…

Bloom Nutrition Pop Rocket Blast

Bloom Nutrition dropped a prebiotic soda with 3g of sugar and no artificial anything. It's seasonal, so grab it while it's here. A Target reviewer said it best — “tastes just like a bomb pop from my childhood.”

Cove Ice Pop Soda

Cove made a zero sugar probiotic soda and called it Ice Pop. Certified organic, naturally sweetened and colored, high source of Vitamin C, gluten free, and only $2.29 at Target. A probiotic soda inspired by the most iconic summer popsicle in America for under three dollars. The aisle is not playing around this summer.

Oreo Firecracker Pop

Oreo put the Bomb Pop in a cookie. Golden wafers, triple layered cherry, lemon, and blue raspberry creme. Limited edition for summer 2026. The cookie aisle just got a little more interesting this summer.

Unwell Energy Red White and Blueberry

Unwell took the Bomb Pop and made it an energy drink. 150mg of natural caffeine, 3g of sugar, real fruit juice, biotin, 6 B vitamins, 745mg of electrolytes, no artificial anything. Available at Target for $2.69. The label is impressive. The reviews… are not. One reviewer called it “colonoscopy prep.” Another said “plant water.” Grocery Girl is going to let you be the judge on this one.

Joyride Sour Ice Strips

Joyride took the Bomb Pop and turned it into a sour candy strip. 80% less sugar than leading brands, 8g of fiber per serving, no artificial colors or sweeteners, $4.99 at Target. One reviewer said it was "better than the original honestly." The candy aisle finally did something right.

The Grocery Girl Takeaway

This is not a coincidence. Fourth of July is the most nostalgic food moment of the year and brands know exactly what they are doing. Cherry, lime, and blue raspberry is one of the only flavor combinations in America that requires zero explanation… it already lives in everyone’s memory. So when a flavor has that kind of pull, brands run with it. And right now they are running with it into every category imaginable.

You heard it here first.

xoxo, Grocery Girl

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Hello, aisle insiders.

Let’s all take a moment of silence for the food industry, which appears to have collectively lost its mind recently.

Grocery Girl has been keeping a list of seven recent food launches that is quite literally insane. All real. All on shelves right now. Every single one of them would have been a prank five years ago.

Grab a snack. You'll need it. Although maybe not these snacks…

The Lineup

Meaties – Ground Beef Cereal

Yes, this is a real product. Meaties is a breakfast cereal whose number one ingredient is dehydrated American beef. Twenty grams of protein per serving, eaten with milk like a normal cereal, available in Chocolate Peanut Butter and Maple Cinnamon flavors that exist purely to distract you from the fact that the base is beef. $14 a box. It launched in March and sold out almost overnight. Tell Grocery Girl this is a fever dream.

Bush’s Beans – Rocket Pop, Apple Pie, and Dill Pickle Baked Beans

Bush's Baked Beans is going through something, and we are all witnesses. The brand released three limited-edition flavors this week: Apple Pie, Dill Pickle, and Rocket Pop. Yes, as in the popsicle. In a can of side dish. The multi-pack is priced at $5.25 as a Memorial Day nod, which is how you know the entire launch was engineered to go viral from day one. Whoever pitched it in the boardroom should be running a country by next year.

Liquid I.V. x Grillo’s Pickles – Pickle Hydration Multiplier

Liquid I.V. just dropped pickle-flavored hydration packets with Grillo’s. Three times the electrolytes of a sports drink, $14.99 for a 10-pack online only. The backstory is what makes it: Liquid I.V. floated this exact concept as an April Fool’s prank last year. Fans refused to drop it. A year later, the brand quietly built it for real. Grocery Girl is choosing to read this less as a product launch and more as a documented case of a brand losing a public negotiation with the internet.

PBR x Grillo’s – Pickle Beer

We officially live in a time when pickle-flavored beer is a thing you can buy at the grocery store. Pickle is no longer just a chip flavor, or a popcorn flavor, or a seltzer flavor. It is now a beer flavor. PBR and Grillo’s teamed up on a 4.7% ABV pickle lager, brewed with real Grillo’s brine, available at Walmart, Publix, Albertsons, and Total Wine for $7.99 a six-pack. There is also a co-branded NASCAR car. Because of course there is. Pickle is the flavor of the year and no one is even pretending to fight it anymore.

GoodPop – Fudge n’ Vanilla French Fry Pop

Real french fries. On a popsicle. In your freezer aisle. GoodPop is selling a vanilla and fudge bar rolled in actual crispy potato pieces, and yes, she is serious. The whole thing is supposed to taste like a fry dipped in a milkshake — which, depending on the kind of person you are, sounds either revolting or like the single greatest idea anyone has ever had in the entire history of food.

Van Leeuwen x Guinness – Lovely Day for a Guinness Ice Cream

Beer ice cream. That is the entire product. Van Leeuwen and Guinness launched it last July as a limited drop, packaged in a black pint with a tan lid designed to look like a freshly poured Guinness. It sold out almost immediately. The brands brought it back this April at Whole Foods nationwide — $11.15 a pint, no end date announced. Beer. In ice cream. Sitting in the Whole Foods freezer right now.

Proda – Protein Soda

And then there is Proda, a soda that contains protein. Which is a sentence Grocery Girl never expected to write. Ten grams of clear whey protein, three grams of fiber, zero sugar, forty-five calories, seven flavors including Shirley Temple and Root Beer, $3.49 a can at Sprouts.

The Limit Does Not Exist

Let’s be honest about what this means.

The food world has officially gone feral. There are no more rules. There is no more “that flavor doesn’t belong in that category.” Beer is in ice cream. Beef is in cereal. Apple pie is in a can of baked beans. French fries are in a popsicle. Protein is in a soda. A popsicle is in a can of beans.

The guardrails are gone.

Which means, if you have been sitting on a deranged flavor or product idea — a sour-candy seltzer, a ranch ice cream, a hot honey cereal, a savory popsicle, whatever has been living rent-free in your Notes app… this is your sign. If a Peaky Blinders actor can launch a Shirley Temple-flavored protein soda and land it at Sprouts, your idea is not too weird.

Your idea is not weird enough.

The Bottom Line

The food world used to have a limit. The limit was something like “do not put a popsicle in a can of beans.” That limit is gone.

Whoever is pitching this stuff is winning. Bush’s got every food publication in America to write about baked beans for a week. Meaties sold out in days. Guinness ice cream is back by popular demand. Liquid I.V. turned an April Fool’s joke into a real SKU because fans literally would not stop asking.

That is the game. There are no rules anymore. Go make the weird thing.

xoxo,
Grocery Girl

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Gossip travels fast in the grocery aisle. April had plenty of it.

A movie star walked in with a ranch. A reality star walked in with a collagen drink. Soda decided it was secretly a supplement. Pickle juice got a glow-up. Mac & cheese decided to start lifting weights.

Two storylines ran the month. The nostalgia rebrand, and the function pile-on. Every launch picked a side.

Of course Grocery Girl was watching. Of course she has thoughts.

The cart is full. The tea is hot. Let's get into it…

GOODLES Drops Wild Wild Pesto Mac & Cheese

GOODLES just dropped a new flavor, and Wild Wild Pesto is the one everyone’s about to be talking about.

Per serving: 14g of protein, 7g of fiber, and 21 nutrients from plants. In a boxed mac & cheese. Let that sit for a second.

If you’re new here, GOODLES is the better-for-you mac co-founded by Gal Gadot… yes, that Gal Gadot. Same nostalgic blue-box energy you grew up on, just quietly rebuilt from the inside out. More protein. More fiber. Actual plant-based nutrients hiding in the pasta you used to eat standing over the stove at 11pm.

Most boxed mac taps out around 8–10g of protein with basically zero fiber. This one nearly doubles the protein and sneaks in 7g of fiber while you’re not looking.

Boxed mac used to be the lazy dinner. Now it’s the lazy dinner that’s secretly working harder than you are.

ARMRA Launches the First Ready-to-Drink Colostrum Soda

Just when you thought the soda aisle was full… ARMRA pulled up with something nobody else has.

Meet the world’s first ready-to-drink colostrum soda. Yes, colostrum. In a can. With bubbles.

If you’ve been anywhere near wellness TikTok, you already know ARMRA. The physician-founded brand built its name on premium grass-fed bovine colostrum supplements… the kind people swear by for their hair, their skin, and that “lit from within” thing everyone’s chasing. Until now, it lived in a scoop. Now it lives in a soda.

Every 12-ounce can contains 1 gram of grass-fed bovine colostrum, which delivers over 400 bioactive nutrients… peptides, antibodies, and growth factors all working in the background. The whole thing is formulated using cold-chain technology to keep the colostrum stable in a shelf-stable liquid, which is the part nobody else has cracked yet.

Flavors are Spicy Lime, Pomelo Basil, Huckleberry, and Pear Ginger… not a vanilla protein shake in sight.

Each can is built to boost energy, support hair strength, and give you that radiant complexion the supplement was already known for. Same benefits. Just sippable now.

Functional sodas had their moment with prebiotics. Then probiotics. Then protein. Colostrum was always going to be next… ARMRA just got there first.

Grocery Girl is officially watching this one.

TRUFF Expands Into Aioli with a Three-Flavor Lineup

TRUFF just moved into the aioli aisle… and of course they didn’t show up quietly.

If you don’t know TRUFF, you’ve definitely seen the bottle. The black one with the gold truffle on top that turned hot sauce into a luxury condiment. At this point, the lineup is a full pantry takeover… Black & White Truffle Hot Sauce, Truffle Oils & Salt, Truffle Mayonnaise, and Pasta Sauces.

And now, aioli.

Three flavors:

• Classic Truffle

• Garlic Parm Caesar

• Smoky Jalapeño

Here’s the thing. TRUFF isn’t chasing categories anymore… they’re slowly reinventing every sauce on the shelf. Each launch picks off another condiment that’s been sitting in the same format for decades and quietly upgrades it.

And the timing makes sense. Classic mayo sales dropped last year. Premium mayo made with cleaner ingredients grew 23%. Shoppers are officially trading up… and TRUFF is one of the brands they're trading up to.

The hot sauce got them on the table. Everything since has been TRUFF working their way through the rest of the fridge.The hot sauce built the brand. The aioli is here to expand it.

Smash Kitchen Adds Ranch to the Lineup

Smash Kitchen is back in the condiment aisle, this time with organic ranch dressing.

If you’ve been keeping up, Smash Kitchen is the better-for-you pantry brand co-founded by Glen Powell… yes, the Top Gun: Maverick and Anyone But You Glen Powell. The brand is built around rethinking the American pantry, starting with the condiments people already use every day but never really questioned.

They came out of the gate with ketchup, mustard, mayo, and BBQ sauce. Then they entered the chip aisle in February with non-GMO kettle-cooked potato chips at Walmart. Now they’re back where they started… adding organic ranch to the mix.

And ranch is just the opener. It’s the first condiment rolling out from an upcoming dressing lineup that will also include Italian, Caesar, and balsamic vinaigrette. So this isn’t a one-off launch… it’s the start of a full dressing aisle takeover.

And the timing makes sense. Ranch just passed ketchup as America's favorite condiment. A $1.3 billion category that hasn't been touched in decades… until now.

Ranch is one of those condiments most people don’t think twice about. It’s been the same brands, the same bottles, the same ingredient lists for decades. Smash Kitchen is doing what they’ve done with everything else… taking something familiar and quietly rebuilding it with cleaner ingredients.

Glen Powell got people to pay attention. The product is what gets them to come back.

Sprinter Launches k2o, a Collagen Drink Mix for Skin

Kylie Jenner’s vodka soda brand just made a hard left turn. Best known for its canned vodka sodas, is now launching k2o by Sprinter… a powdered drink mix-in built around skin support. Each stick packs electrolytes, bioactive collagen peptides, and hyaluronic acid… the kind of ingredients you’d usually find in a serum or a supplement, not a drink.

The pitch is simple. Hydrate your body and your skin at the same time. Electrolytes handle the moisture side. Collagen peptides and hyaluronic acid handle the glow.

This isn’t a small pivot. Sprinter is going from a fun, social drink you grab for a Friday night to a functional powder you mix into water on a Tuesday morning. Same brand. Completely different occasion.

Hydration is now a $1.5 billion business. Sprinter just walked into one of the most crowded aisles in the store… and they brought collagen with them.

The hydration aisle keeps adding jobs. First focus. Then energy. Now skin.

Rally Brings the Pickle Juice Shot to the Hydration Aisle

Pickle juice is officially leaving the jar.

Rally is a new brand built around one thing… pickle juice as a functional drink. Their first product is a 2 oz shot designed for muscle cramp relief and clean hydration support. Briny, tangy, finished with a dill-cucumber kick.

The formula is straightforward. Vinegar, key electrolytes (sodium, potassium, magnesium), and essential vitamins. No artificial sweeteners, no colors, no preservatives.

Flavor: Classic Dill.

You take it before, during, or after a workout. Or whenever a cramp starts creeping in at 2am and you’re regretting every decision that led to it.

Athletes have been drinking pickle juice for cramps for years. Rally turned it into a product you can actually buy.

GoodPop Launches Fruit Sours… A Sour Candy-Coated Pop

GoodPop just made the popsicle aisle interesting again.

GoodPop is the clean-ingredient frozen treat brand built on real fruit juice and zero artificial junk. Their newest launch is Fruit Sours… and it’s the first of its kind.

Here’s what makes it different. Each pop has a patent-pending, plant-based sour candy coating on the outside that melts into a real fruit juice base on the inside. So it’s a sour candy and a fruit pop in the same bite. Two experiences in one.

Available in two variety packs:

• Cherry & Melon

• Green Apple & Lemonade

Sour candy used to mean artificial colors, artificial flavors, and a sugar content most people stopped looking at. GoodPop rebuilt the format from scratch… plant-based coating, real juice inside, none of the chemistry set.

And the timing makes sense. Sour candy is having a moment. Sales are up nearly 70% in the last few years, mostly driven by Gen Z.

The popsicle aisle has been quiet for a long time. GoodPop just made it loud again.

Lucky Energy Launches SLUSH… Energy Drinks That Taste Like Childhood

Lucky Energy is going straight for the nostalgia button.

Lucky Energy is the better-for-you energy drink brand built around zero sugar, clean caffeine, and flavors that don’t taste like medicine. Their newest drop is the SLUSH series… a three-flavor lineup inspired by the slushies you used to beg your mom for at the gas station.

Flavor lineup:

• Blue Razz Slush

• Cherry Slush

• Strawberry Slush

This is also the first time Lucky Energy is showing up in a 12 oz sleek can… and it’s permanent, not limited edition. Smaller format, same energy, designed for the shopper who wants something between a sip of seltzer and a full Monster.

Here’s what’s interesting. Most energy drink flavors lean into either fruit punch chaos or wellness ingredients nobody can pronounce. SLUSH is leaning into something else entirely… memory. It’s the gas station slushie, the after-school stop, the bright blue tongue moment, just rebuilt for adults who still want all of that without the sugar crash.

The fastest-growing slice of the energy drink aisle right now? Zero-sugar, clean-ingredient brands like Lucky Energy.

Energy drinks used to compete on caffeine. Now they’re competing on feeling.

Wonder Monday Makes Key Lime Pie Cheesecake Permanent

Wonder Monday is officially keeping the Key Lime Pie Cheesecake around.

Wonder Monday is the better-for-you dessert brand known for its low-carb, high-protein cheesecakes that don’t taste like a compromise. The Key Lime Pie Cheesecake started as a limited seasonal release… the kind of thing they usually take away by the end of summer. Now it’s earned a permanent spot on the lineup.

It hits the same brand formula. Low carb, high protein, real ingredients, none of the sugar load you’d expect from a cheesecake that actually tastes like one.

Most shoppers want dessert. They also want it to do more than just taste good. Wonder Monday is built for exactly that.

Limited releases usually live and die in their season. This one stuck.

The Final Word

And just like that… April is in the books.

Here’s what the aisle was actually doing. Nostalgia got rebuilt. Slushies, sour pops, boxed mac, ranch dressing… all the stuff you grew up on came back, just with cleaner ingredients and better stats. And on the other side of the cart, function kept layering on. Hydration is doing skin now. Soda is doing colostrum. Pickle juice is doing cramps. Nothing is just the thing it used to be anymore.

If you grew up on it, a brand is rebuilding it. If you drink it, a brand is adding a job to it.

The middle of the aisle is gone. Either your product taps into a memory or it taps into a function… and the ones doing both are the ones to watch.

You know you love me.

xoxo, Grocery Girl

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The grocery aisle is starting to feel a little… famous.

You go into the grocery store for a protein bar and suddenly you’re standing in front of celebrity tequila, celebrity popcorn, celebrity hot sauce, celebrity gummies, and a supermodel selling “brain-boosting” drinks. Every aisle feels like a different celebrity somehow got a grocery deal.

Celebrities aren’t just launching makeup brands anymore. Now they’re everywhere in food. Snacks, drinks, sauces, candy, baby food… if it can sit on a grocery shelf, someone famous probably has their name on it.

Food feels personal. People want to know what celebrities eat, drink, snack on, and keep in their kitchens. These brands aren’t just selling a product… they’re selling the lifestyle around it, with a name that already brings recognition and makes it feel familiar right away.

So let’s get into the celebrities slowly taking over the grocery store… one aisle at a time.

Khloud by Khloé Kardashian

Khloé Kardashian has always been more relatable than the rest of her family… so putting her name on something people buy every week makes sense.

Khloud launched in 2025 as a high-protein, seed-oil-free snack brand starting with protein popcorn and later expanding into chips. It’s positioned as a “better-for-you” snack line — more protein, cleaner ingredients, elevated packaging, same snack aisle.

But the interesting part isn’t really the popcorn.

It’s how fast celebrity brands can skip the normal process. Most snack companies spend years trying to get retailers to notice them, convince consumers to care, and slowly build recognition. Khloud launched with over 300 million people already knowing exactly who Khloé Kardashian is before the first bag even hit shelves.

The celebrity already built the audience. The product just has to give people a reason to add it to their cart.

Kin Euphorics by Bella Hadid

Bella Hadid is one of the biggest models in the world, so it was only a matter of time before she entered the wellness aisle too.

Kin Euphorics launched in 2021 as a non-alcoholic functional drink brand built around adaptogens and nootropics, marketed for calm, focus, and mood support. Bella tied the brand to her own “sober curious” lifestyle, positioning it as something that gives you a feeling without alcohol.

Moody packaging, wellness language, elevated lifestyle marketing… It feels less like a drink and more like an aesthetic.

What’s interesting is that functional beverages are usually built on ingredient credibility and formulation. Kin entered the space with something else just as powerful: visibility. Bella Hadid has over 60 million followers, which creates instant interest before most people even know what adaptogens are.

Cloud 23 by Brooklyn Beckham

Brooklyn Beckham is the son of David and Victoria Beckham… which already explains why people were paying attention before the first bottle even launched.

Cloud 23 launched in late 2024 as a premium organic hot sauce brand with flavors like Hot Habanero and Sweet Jalapeño. The sauces lean into cleaner ingredients, thicker texture, and no gums or stabilizers. Even the name ties back to the Beckham brand, referencing David Beckham’s jersey number, 23.

Brooklyn has positioned the brand around his interest in cooking and food content online, building more of a “tastemaker” image than a traditional celebrity endorsement.

But hot sauce is usually a category built through word of mouth, flavor reputation, and repeat buyers over time. Cloud 23 skipped straight to recognition.

Because when your last name is Beckham, getting people to notice isn’t something you have to worry about.

Once Upon a Farm by Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner is an American actress, known for films like 13 Going on 30. Her background is in acting… not food manufacturing or nutrition, but she’s now the co-founder and Chief Brand Officer of Once Upon a Farm.

Once Upon a Farm is an organic baby food and snack brand she joined in 2017. The products are positioned as a fresher alternative to the shelf-stable pouches most parents are used to, made with fruit and vegetable blends and no preservatives.

Jennifer Garner is known for her down-to-earth, “girl next door” image… so of course people trust her with baby food. The trust is already there. The product just follows.

In a category like this, that matters. You’re choosing something your kid eats every day, so the decision comes down to who you feel comfortable with, not just what’s on the label.

K2O by Kylie Jenner

Kylie Jenner built a billion-dollar brand off beauty, aesthetics, and selling an image… so a beauty-focused hydration brand was basically inevitable.

K2O is a hydration mix positioned around “beauty from within,” combining electrolytes with ingredients tied to skin and appearance benefits. In simpler terms: it’s hydration powder marketed with skincare energy.

And the concept itself isn’t exactly groundbreaking. Hydration powders already exist. Beauty supplements already exist. This just combines the two and puts Kylie Jenner behind it.

Kylie has over 390 million Instagram followers, so the product launches with something most wellness brands spend years trying to build: attention. People aren’t just buying hydration… they’re buying into the idea that this is part of the Kylie Jenner routine.

Stiller’s Soda by Ben Stiller

Ben Stiller is known for comedy movies… not exactly for disrupting the beverage industry. But now he has a soda brand.

Stiller’s Soda is a lower-sugar, vitamin-added soda line built around nostalgic flavors like Shirley Temples, while fitting into the growing “better-for-you” soda trend. Less sugar, added ingredients, cleaner branding — all very familiar territory in grocery right now.

The product category already existed. The celebrity is what makes people stop and pay attention to it. Ben Stiller brings instant recognition to a space where most beverage brands spend years trying to stand out.

Because realistically, if this same soda launched without a celebrity attached to it… most people probably wouldn’t look twice.

Shaq-A-Licious by Shaquille O’Neal

Shaquille O’Neal is a Hall of Fame NBA player, widely known as one of the most dominant centers in basketball history.

Now he has a candy brand called Shaq-A-Licious Gummies, which launched in September 2024 in partnership with The Hershey Company. The gummies are oversized and shaped like Shaq’s face, leaning fully into his larger-than-life personality, and are designed to stand out immediately on shelves.

There’s nothing complicated about the product itself. Gummies already exist, oversized candy already exists, novelty shapes already exist. This just combines all of that and puts Shaq’s name and face on it.

You’re not buying these because they’re a better gummy. You’re buying them because it’s Shaq.

Goodles by Gal Gadot

Gal Gadot is an actress best known for her role as Wonder Woman. She started a mac and cheese brand called Goodles.

Goodles is positioned as a more nutrient-dense version of boxed mac and cheese, with added protein and fortified ingredients while keeping the same taste and convenience people expect. It’s marketed as an upgraded option for families who still want something quick and familiar.

And to be fair, this one helped push the idea that you can take a nostalgic comfort food like mac and cheese and make it higher in protein and nutrients without losing what people like about it.

What’s interesting is they don’t really lead with her name. The branding focuses on the product first, not the celebrity behind it.

818 Tequila by Kendall Jenner

Kendall Jenner is a model and part of the Kardashian family, best known from Keeping Up with the Kardashians. She started a tequila brand called 818.

818 Tequila is made from 100% Blue Weber agave grown in Jalisco, Mexico. It’s positioned as a premium tequila, with sleek, minimalist packaging and a clean, elevated brand image. It sits in a category that’s already filled with celebrity-backed tequila brands.

What changes is how it shows up. Kendall Jenner has over 300 million followers across social media, which means instant exposure the second anything launches. One post can reach more people than most brands spend years trying to get in front of.

Smash Kitchen by Glen Powell

Glen Powell is an actor known for films like Top Gun: Maverick, Anyone But You, and Twisters. Now he has a condiment brand.

Smash Kitchen is an organic pantry brand focused on basics like ketchup, mustard, and barbecue sauce. It’s positioned as cleaner and higher quality than traditional options, while still priced to compete with what people already buy. The branding leans into comfort food and family-style meals with simple, familiar products and slightly upgraded ingredients.

Glen Powell is basically America’s sweetheart right now, so anything he puts out gets a stamp of approval before people even try it. And with millions of followers across social media and constant media coverage from recent films, that kind of visibility is something most food brands will never have.

You Thought You Could Escape Celebrities… Even the Grocery Store Said No.

The grocery aisle is becoming something else entirely.

Not just a place to buy food… but a place where celebrities turn themselves into brands you can literally pick up off a shelf. Snacks, drinks, sauces, candy, baby food… all the things you already buy, now with a very familiar face attached.

Most brands spend years trying to get noticed. They fight for shelf space, pour money into marketing, and hope people remember the name. Celebrity brands don’t have to do that. They show up with followers, headlines, and built-in curiosity already there.

People trust familiar faces. They follow routines. What someone eats or drinks starts to feel like part of their identity… and fans want in on that.

So it’s not always the best product winning. It’s the one you recognize first.

The grocery aisle isn’t just food anymore. It’s content.

At this point, celebrities are everywhere… and apparently the one place you thought you were safe didn’t make the cut: the grocery store.

Good luck out there.

xoxo, Grocery Girl

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