Article: Formula 417: with Barilla Plus, Barilla reinvents pasta for the American consumer.(product information)(Barilla America inc.)

Barilla Plus, arguably the most innovative new product to hit the pasta category, began with the elementary observation that Americans eat pasta more as a meal than as a course, as is typical in pasta-centric Italy. The simple idea that pasta could be more than wheat and water kicked off a three-year journey that ended with formula 417, pasta that blends nutritional balance with all the comfortable aspects of pasta, down to shapes, cooking instructions and taste.

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Barilla Plus was launched at retail in early 2005 as a line of boxed pasta in varieties Penne, Elbows, Rotini, Angel Hair, Spaghetti and Thin Spaghetti--standbys in the ...

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