Business Acquisition, Cash Consideration, Payable, Per Share

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Business Acquisition, Share Exchange Ratio

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Business Combination, Additional Acquisition Related Costs, Expected

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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-Topic 805
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This element represents acquisition-related costs incurred to effect a business combination which costs have been expensed during the period. Such costs include finder's fees; advisory, legal, accounting, valuation, and other professional or consulting fees; general administrative costs, including the costs of maintaining an internal acquisitions department; and may include costs of registering and issuing debt and equity securities.

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Face amount or stated value per share of common stock.

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Merger Agreement (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023 USD ($) $ / shares	Sep. 30, 2022 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2023 USD ($) $ / shares	Sep. 30, 2022 USD ($)	Oct. 10, 2023 $ / shares	Dec. 31, 2022 $ / shares
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Common stock, par value (in usd per share) \| $ / shares	$ 0.0001		$ 0.0001			$ 0.0001
Merger transaction costs \| $	$ 11,288	$ 0	$ 11,288	$ 0
Subsequent Event
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Common stock, par value (in usd per share) \| $ / shares					$ 0.0001
Hostess Brands, Inc.
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Merger transaction costs \| $	$ 11,300		11,300
Additional acquisition related costs, expected \| $			$ 59,000
Hostess Brands, Inc. \| J . M . Smucker Company \| Subsequent Event
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business acquisition, cash consideration, receivable (in USD per share) \| $ / shares					$ 30.00
Business acquisition share exchange ratio					0.03002