Crackers can offer a healthier alternative to traditional salty snacks such as chips, popcorn and pretzels
May 18, 2015
In a virtuous circle that promises to provide a significant boost to the market for crackers, major marketers in turn have begun to roll out an ever-expanding line of innovative products to meet the challenge created by soft sales and slow growth in product segments such as potato chips and cheese snacks.
Will local foods overtake organic foods in popularity?
April 23, 2015
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) notes, "The abundance of farmers' markets and the emergence of larger scale retailers carrying local products (and promoting them) is a healthy indicator of market responsiveness to consumer demand."
Consumers have lost interest in dieting to lose weight and in 2015 they prefer healthy eating
April 2, 2015
According to the Packaged Facts report, Functional Foods & Beverages: Key Trends by Product Categories and Benefits, all three are also undergoing major shifts in the marketplace that reflect cultural and lifestyle changes including heartier breakfasts and more, healthier snacking.
While international flavors such as sriracha supports the center store, food trends shaping what America eats favor fresh, natural, and local foods
March 27, 2015
The supermarket industry's "center store" of shelf-stable and frozen products is hardly sedentary. Take sriracha hot sauce, as the center store very much did.
Natural sports drinks and savory nutrition bars are among key product trends reshaping the U.S. functional foods market
March 19, 2015
Helping to drive a robust functional foods market in 2015 is a nation still struggling to shed extra pounds and keep them off, consumers recognizing the importance of engaging in regular physical activity to promote overall good health, and adults of all ages seeking out foods and beverages to help them maintain enough energy to support fast paced lives that less and less frequently involve food preparation and healthful, sit-down meals with family or friends.
Over the past decade, breakfast-type foods with the fastest growing popularity were healthy, portable snacks
March 10, 2015
No bowl or milk necessary for the modern American breakfast. The most important meal of the day in the U.S. is shifting away from the familiar snap, crackle, and pop of cold breakfast cereals to embrace the convenient goodness packed into the food industry's increasing array of nutritional and cereal bars.
Over the next five years, local foods will grow faster than the annual pace of total food and beverage sales to approach $20 billion in 2019
March 5, 2015
Locally produced foods are stepping out of the shadow of their once "quirky niche" designation to claim a much more prominent place in the U.S. food and beverage retail-scape.