Positive Choices

PLANO, Texas, April 4, 2023 -- Frito-Lay and Quaker today announced the opening of an industry-leading Greenhouse Learning Center at its R&D headquarters. The Learning Center will be used to field test, measure, and analyze compostable packaging with an aim to speed up the rate of innovation. This facility represents a key milestone to achieve the company's PepsiCo Positive (pep+) packaging goal to design 100 percent of packaging to be recyclable, compostable, biodegradable or reusable by 2025.

Lay’s FRESH 4D marks the first time consumers will taste Lay’s chips in their freshest form, using potatoes sourced from local farms and served within 24 hours of being made.

Reservations for the multi-sensorial, four-course seated dining experience open April 6. 

PLANO, Texas, Sept. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo® and leader in snacking, today introduced an industrially compostable bag for its Off The Eaten Path® brand.

PLANO, Texas, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PepsiCo's Frito-Lay North America division announced today the expansion of the Smartfood brand to include popped chips, popcorn, and puffed corn under the Smartfood Selects name.

PLANO, Texas, June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- PepsiCo's Frito-Lay North America business unit announced the introduction of two new Lightly Salted varieties of chips.  Fritos Lightly Salted corn chips and Ruffles Lightly Salted potato chips join Lay's Lightly Salted potato chips, which were launched in 2000 in select markets but expanded to national distribution beginning in 2010. With at least 50 percent less sodium per one ounce serving than their original counterparts, Lightly Salted varieties provide consumers concerned about sodium with lower sodium options.

PLANO, Texas, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Lay's, a brand of PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division, announced that it is using all natural ingredients to craft its Lay's Kettle Cooked potato chips. To mark the roll out of these potato chips, four different carvers will officially begin crafting a Lay's Kettle Cooked billboard made entirely from wood at the corner of Van Ness and Mission streets, the busiest intersection in San Francisco, Calif. Local San Francisco residents can check-in via online social network Foursquare to become Mayor and win free bags of Lay's Kettle Cooked potato chips.

PLANO, Texas, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- On the eve of Earth Month, the SunChips brand today officially introduces the world's first 100 percent compostable chip bag at an event in Los Angeles, along with details about a new national consumer education effort to encourage composting and greener lifestyles. The new 100 percent compostable bags are made with plant-based polylactic acid (PLA), a renewable material that also allows the bags to fully compost in approximately 14 weeks when placed in a hot, active compost bin.