Flowers Foods (NYSE: FLO) announced on April 28, 2026 that Dave’s Killer Bread (DKB), its flagship organic bread brand, is launching Mini Bagels in two flavors nationwide: Plain Awesome and Epic Everything. Simultaneously, DKB is rolling out a limited-edition regular-sized Summer Berry Bagel made with real cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries, available now through July 2026. All products are certified USDA Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified. Cristina Watson, Senior Director of Brand Management at Dave’s Killer Bread, is the spokesperson. DKB is headquartered in Milwaukie, Oregon, and operates its bakery in Oregon. It is described as the nation’s number one organic bread brand with 37 varieties of whole grain organic bakery and snack products and nationwide distribution. It was first introduced at the Portland Farmers Market in 2005.
The Products
Mini Bagels come in two flavors: Plain Awesome (plain) and Epic Everything (everything spice blend). Sold in packs of 12 at $7.49 SRP. Each mini bagel is 100 calories, made with organic whole grains. USDA Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified. The mini bagel format is positioned as a portion-controlled snack and meal option addressing the consumer insight that one third of bagel eaters frequently find a regular-sized bagel too large for a single sitting, with nearly half of Gen Z bagel eaters agreeing.
Summer Berry Bagels are regular-sized bagels made with real cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries. Sold in packs of 5 at $6.49 SRP. Available now through July 2026. USDA Organic. The multi-berry inclusion is the formulation story here: four distinct whole fruit inputs incorporated into a yeast-leavened bagel dough at commercial organic bakery scale.
The Organic Whole Grain and Multi-Berry Sourcing Story
DKB’s brand foundation is built on organic, whole grain inputs across all 37 product varieties. The Mini Bagels’ organic whole grain basis means the wheat flour inputs must be sourced from USDA Certified Organic wheat producers and milled through certified organic processing operations. For organic wheat flour suppliers serving the premium packaged bread segment, DKB’s product expansion into mini bagels extends the organic whole grain flour demand across a new format category under the nation’s number one organic bread brand and its parent company Flowers Foods’ national distribution network.
The Epic Everything Mini Bagel requires an everything bagel spice blend input: typically sesame seeds, poppy seeds, dried garlic, dried onion, and salt applied to the bagel surface before or after baking. At organic specification, all five components of the everything blend must come from organic-certified sources. Organic sesame, organic poppy seed, organic garlic granules, and organic onion flakes each have distinct supply chains, and qualifying all five at commercial organic specification for a national brand is a meaningful procurement complexity relative to a conventional everything spice blend program.
The Summer Berry Bagels’ four-berry inclusion (cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries) requires dried or fresh-equivalent fruit inputs at the incorporation specification for a yeast-leavened dough that must maintain structure and oven spring despite the moisture content and sugar load introduced by fruit inclusions. Organic berry inclusion sourcing requires USDA Organic certified dried or IQF fruit from suppliers who can deliver consistent berry size, moisture content, and color stability across commercial bakery production runs. For organic fruit suppliers serving the commercial bakery segment, DKB’s Summer Berry Bagel creates a four-berry organic procurement event within a limited-time April-through-July production window.
The Consumer Data Behind the Mini Format
DKB commissioned a survey of 2,000 general population Americans conducted online between March 26 and March 30, 2026. Key findings: one third of bagel eaters frequently find a regular-sized bagel too big to eat in one sitting; nearly half of Gen Z bagel eaters agree; millennials and Gen X eat the most bagels per month (8.2 and 7.5 respectively); two thirds of millennials say everything is better when there’s a mini version; the optimal bagel eating time (“Bagel O’Clock”) is 9:06 a.m.; 63% of respondents say year-round is the best season for bagels; and berry bagels are especially popular with millennials and Gen Z.
The mini format trend the survey confirms is part of the same consumption behavior pattern driving portion-controlled snack formats across the CPG landscape in 2025 and 2026: consumers want the experience of a familiar food at a size that fits their actual eating occasion. A mini bagel at 100 calories is a snack. A full-size bagel is a meal. DKB is essentially opening a new usage occasion for its organic bagel products without changing the brand’s core identity or ingredient standards.
The Flowers Foods and DKB Organic Sourcing Program at Scale
DKB operates within Flowers Foods’ national bakery distribution network, giving it reach and logistics scale that most organic bread brands cannot access. Its 37 organic product varieties all must meet USDA Organic certification requirements, meaning Flowers Foods’ procurement program for DKB must qualify and maintain organic grain, seed, fruit, and flavoring suppliers across a substantial and growing product portfolio. The Mini Bagel and Summer Berry Bagel additions extend the organic ingredient procurement footprint to two new SKUs in the bagel format category, adding organic whole wheat flour, organic everything spice blend inputs, and organic multi-berry inclusions to the existing DKB organic procurement program.
Why It Matters for Organic Wheat Flour, Everything Spice, and Organic Berry Ingredient Suppliers
Dave’s Killer Bread’s Mini Bagel launch under Flowers Foods’ national distribution creates a sustained procurement requirement for organic whole wheat flour at the protein content and specification required for a chewy, dense bagel dough structure in a mini-format product at the nation’s number one organic bread brand’s commercial Oregon bakery production scale, with USDA Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified certification requirements applying to all flour inputs. For organic wheat flour suppliers and organic grain mills serving the premium packaged bread segment, DKB’s mini bagel format expansion extends the organic grain procurement program into a new product category with its own production volume, separate from the existing full-size bagel and bread lines.
The Epic Everything Mini Bagel’s organic everything spice blend requirement creates a multi-component organic seasoning procurement program covering organic sesame seed, organic poppy seed, organic garlic granules, organic dried onion, and kosher salt at the quality, consistency, and food-grade organic certification required for a surface application on a commercial organic bagel at national distribution scale. Each component of the everything blend must be individually certified organic, which significantly narrows the eligible supplier pool compared to conventional everything spice programs and creates a specification-intensive procurement relationship with organic spice and seed suppliers. For organic sesame, poppy seed, and allium ingredient suppliers serving the commercial bakery seasoning segment, the DKB Epic Everything Mini Bagel is a new organic application at national scale.
The Summer Berry Bagels’ four-berry organic inclusion program covering cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries requires USDA Organic certified dried or IQF fruit inputs at the moisture content, size consistency, and color stability specification required for incorporation into a commercial yeast-leavened bagel dough without compromising dough structure, oven spring, or retail shelf life through the April-to-July limited-time production window. For organic berry processors and dried fruit suppliers serving the commercial bakery inclusion segment, DKB’s Summer Berry Bagel creates a four-berry concurrent organic procurement event with a defined seasonal production window, requiring pre-positioned inventory across all four berry varieties before the LTO window opens.
FAQs
What are the new products? Two Mini Bagel flavors: Plain Awesome and Epic Everything, in packs of 12 for $7.49 SRP. Plus Summer Berry Bagels (regular-sized, real cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries), in packs of 5 for $6.49 SRP, available through July 2026.
What are the nutritional and certification credentials? Mini Bagels: 100 calories per bagel, organic whole grains, USDA Organic, Non-GMO Project Verified. Summer Berry Bagels: USDA Organic, made with real fruit.
Who is Dave’s Killer Bread? The nation’s number one organic bread brand. Founded at the Portland Farmers Market in 2005. Flagship organic brand for Flowers Foods (NYSE: FLO). 37 varieties of whole grain organic bakery and snack products, all USDA Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified. Headquartered and baked in Oregon.
What does DKB’s Second Chance Employment commitment mean? One in three employee-partners at DKB’s Oregon bakery have a criminal background. The brand actively employs people with criminal histories as part of its core mission.
Where are the products available? At participating retailers nationwide. Store locator at daveskillerbread.com.
About Source86
Dave’s Killer Bread’s Mini Bagel and Summer Berry Bagel launches reflect the organic commercial bakery segment’s active demand for USDA Organic certified whole wheat flour at the bagel dough protein content and specification required for mini and standard bagel formats at national distribution scale, organic everything spice blend components including sesame seed, poppy seed, garlic granules, and dried onion at organic certification and food-grade commercial bakery surface application specifications, USDA Organic certified dried or IQF cranberry, blueberry, raspberry, and strawberry inclusions at the moisture and size specification for incorporation into yeast-leavened bagel dough without compromising structure or shelf life, and the non-GMO verification supply chain documentation requirements that apply to all DKB ingredient inputs under Non-GMO Project Verified certification. At Source86, we connect organic bakery manufacturers, premium bread brands, and certified organic CPG producers with trusted bulk and wholesale sourcing partners for organic wheat flour, organic seed and spice blends, organic dried and IQF fruit inclusions, and the ingredient sourcing infrastructure that supports USDA Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified production at national distribution scale.
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