The change will impact all company brands based in North America that use cocoa, including Silk, So Delicious Dairy Free, Vega, Horizon Organic, and International Delight.
KitKat, a brand of Swiss food and beverage giant Nestlé, will be manufactured using only sustainable sourced cocoa beginning in the first quarter of 2016, the brand announced this week.
The food preservatives market is projected to reach a value of $2.8 billion by 2020 growing at a CAGR of 2.4 percent from 2015, according to a recent report from research firm MarketsandMarkets.