Honey Maid

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Honey Maid
2020-07-01 21 45 00 A box of Nabisco Honey Maid Graham Crackers in the Franklin Farm section of Oak Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia.jpg
A box of Honey Maid graham crackers with branding from 2020.
Product type Graham cracker
Owner Mondelez International
Introduced1925
Website Official website

Honey Maid is a brand of graham crackers. First introduced by Nabisco in 1925, the brand is currently owned by Mondelez International.

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History

The Pacific Coast Biscuit Company of Seattle (later named National Biscuit Company and shortened to Nabisco) first introduced Honey Maid in 1925. [1] The recipe used honey as an ingredient which was not the typical recipe at the time. [2] They were first introduced as Sugar Honey Maid Grahams and renamed Honey Maid Graham Crackers in 1965. [3] Nabisco also made a cookbook based on the crackers in order to promote the brand. [4]

Honey Maid was acquired along with Nabisco in 2000 by Philip Morris Companies who merged it into Kraft Foods. [5] It was later spun off with Kraft Foods into Mondelez International. [4] By 2012, Honey Maid had a 49.4 percent share of the graham cracker market. [1]

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References

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  2. Garber, Megan (5 April 2016). "Honey Maid, Moral Compass for Us All". The Atlantic. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
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  4. 1 2 Smith, Andrew F (2013). Food and Drink in American History 3 Volumes. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   9798216085478 . Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  5. O'Connor, Anahad (19 September 2023). "Many of today's unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco". The Washington Post. Retrieved 20 February 2024.