With easy-pour bottle, Frito-Lay spices up salsa packaging

Among recent packaging innovations introduced by Frito-Lay for a number of snack-type foods is a new squeezable bottle for salsa, a condiment that is typically packaged in jars.

The plastic, easy-pour bottle, which debuted nationally this spring, is made for Tostitos Thick & Chunky All Natural Salsa. Featuring a large hollow handle molded into it, the sleek 28-oz bottle is designed and coextrusion/blown by Continental Plastic Containers LLC (a Consolidated Container company). It's a multilayer Lamicon polypropylene structure with an ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) barrier.

Topping off the unique bottle is a 69-mm polypropylene fine-ribbed cap supplied by Sun Coast Closures. The yellow closure, which features the words "Shake Well" and "Refrigerate After Opening" on top, is lined with a film/foil induction seal that fuses to the bottle mouth.

The bottle is hot-fillable, providing shelf stability for nine months prior to initial opening. The product sells for $3.99.

For more information:
Continental Plastic Containers, Dallas, Texas, Tel: 214-303-3717, Fax: 214-303-1829
SunCoast Closures Inc., Sarasota, FL, Tel: 941-355-7166, Fax: 941-351-1984

Edited by Bill Noone