The Chinese New Year calendar designates 2020 to be the “Year of the Rat.” If sauce, dressing, and spreads makers followed a similar convention, then 2019 would have been designated the “Year of the Plant.”
According to a 2019 Innova Consumer Survey, 63% of global consumers are increasingly trying to incorporate plant ingredients in the diet. Not surprisingly, sauce, dressing and spread manufacturers have been finding creative ways to address the trend as well.