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Your favorite Prepared Foods' editors dish out their expert opinions on recent trends in Our Viewpoints. David Feder, Bob Garrison and Nick Roskelly each have their own unique insights to help you keep up with the ever changing food and beverage industry.

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Editorial View: David Feder

‘21 is Gonna Be a Good Year

Accelerating pace in the year ahead
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David Feder , RDN
January 6, 2021
There are two overarching trends greeting us as we enter the third decade of the 21st century. The first is a hyper-awareness of the foods and beverages we consume that surpasses anything preceding or predicted. The other is the synergy between food makers and consumer demands ignited by this awareness.
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Editorial View: Bob Garrison
2021 Predictions

A New Year: Ready? Set? Grow!

Do you know where you are—as a R&D department?
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Robert Garrison
December 1, 2020
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Amid a growing gap in performance between those that innovate successfully and those that do not, companies wishing to get ahead and stay ahead of competitors need a robust R&D strategy.
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Editorial View: Nick Roskelly

Adapting to Exponential Future Change

The food industry will continue to innovate even when faced with uncertainty
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Nicholas Roskelly
November 4, 2020
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For some time now, the majority of the food and beverage industry has been aware of this shift. Food suppliers and processors have positioned their businesses to adapt to exponential future changes.
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Editorial View: David Feder

Morningstar Farms, Gardein Set the Standard for Meat Analogs

Any company entering the meat alternative category can look to these brands for benchmark goals
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David Feder , RDN
October 2, 2020
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Plant-based has been the big buzz-term in food and beverage for well over a year now. With meat and poultry analogs leading the way, we split the topic into two features.
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Editorial View: Nick Roskelly

Will We Ever Return to Pre-Pandemic Behavior?

Lessons from intentional disruptive practices may be essential as we confront enduring changes to business practices
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Nicholas Roskelly
August 6, 2020
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According to the International Food Information Council’s 2020 Food & Health Survey, 85% of Americans have made at least some change in the food they eat or how they prepare it because of the coronavirus pandemic. Do we expect consumers to return to pre-pandemic behaviors?
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Editorial View: Bob Garrison

Disruption Brings Opportunity

Maintaining strategic innovation, insights, ideation or product development
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Robert Garrison
July 10, 2020
Understandably, it hasn’t been the best time for CPG food and beverage processors to unveil new products to retail customers or their consumers. Yet it doesn’t have to bring an end to strategic innovation—involving insights, ideation or product development. 
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Editorial View: David Feder

Men’s Health: Meeting Nutritional Needs

The challenge for food and beverage makers is to step up development of products for men that employ functional ingredients
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David Feder , RDN
June 15, 2020
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June is Men’s Health Month, and June 10-16 is designated as Men’s Health Week. It’s not quite certain how we guys landed both a week and a month at the same time, but it probably has to do with the need to be told to do something more than once. In this case, it’s needing to be nagged to take care of ourselves.
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Editorial View: Nick Roskelly

I Attended a Trade Show in 2020

Until the COVID-19 crisis descended, the year was shaping up to be charged with innovation from food and beverage product developers
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Nicholas Roskelly
May 15, 2020
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By the time I finish writing this sentence, I imagine another industry trade show will have been cancelled. In my 20 years of covering the food and beverage industry, I have never witnessed such widespread disruption to business. I don’t believe any among us have been left unaffected by the current crisis.
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Editorial View: Bob Garrison

Proud of your new product? Enter Prepared Foods’ Spirit of Innovation Awards

Spirit of Innovation Awards highlight the hard work of food and beverage product development teams
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Robert Garrison
April 17, 2020
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I am inviting all food and beverage processors to tell us about your new product achievements and enter Prepared Foods’ upcoming 18th annual Spirit of Innovation Awards.
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Of Mice and Men: Nutrition Miscommunication

Navigating the gray area of nutrition science in a “better for you” landscape
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David Feder , RDN
March 25, 2020
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Happy National Nutrition Month! I use this bully pulpit often to decry the persistent plague of rampant – and often nefarious – nutrition miscommunication.
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