Although sales growth has cooled, price, consumer brand loyalty and flavor innovations continue to position breakfast and dinner sausage as go-to favorites in an inflationary market.

Sausage benefits today as a platform for consumers’ desire for more protein, indulgence in moderation and strong flavors. It’s also seeing growth from an unlikely source — the clean-label, health crowd.

The summer grilling season is upon us, and sausages are certainly a longtime standby at most holiday get-togethers.

If you've eaten at a restaurant this year, you're familiar with the diversity of sausage offerings, whether a turkey sausage breakfast sandwich, modern peasant fare of homemade sausage, mustard, potato dumpling and kraut at a trendy restaurant, or just a straightforward bratwurst at a baseball game or cookout.