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2017: Food Trends for the New Year

What trends from the past 12 months will ride momentum into the new year?
Nick Roskelly, Executive Editor New Media/Business
Nicholas Roskelly
January 17, 2017
From my vantage point, several food and beverage industry trends will continue to roll through 2017, while a handful of scattered ideas find fertile ground and growth  potential.
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Eat Like a Rock Star

Smaller meal portions are driving trends in both the retail and foodservice sectors
Nick Roskelly, Executive Editor New Media/Business
Nicholas Roskelly
October 11, 2016
The trend of eating smaller amounts of food has sparked discussion about the future of eating three square meals per day.
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Manipulating Microalgae

Food technologists and research chefs are using microalgae in food innovations
David Feder
David Feder , RDN
September 7, 2016
I’m writing this fresh from the annual Institute of Food Technologists (www.ift.org) conference and expo in Chicago. If you didn’t attend, as a source of food science and ingredient trends in the trillion-dollar world of food product development and manufacturing, it can’t be beat. Kudos to the legions of IFT support staff, lead staff, and admin who made it happen!
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Mind Over Menu

How do food and beverage manufacturers interpret a shifting and fast-paced foodservice market?
Bob Garrison, Chief Editor
Robert Garrison
August 11, 2016
Our ability to reason, think creatively and solve problems. Perhaps that’s best described as mind over matter. Ah, but how do food and beverage manufacturers interpret a shifting and fast-paced foodservice market? That can be a more vexing question of mind over menu.
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Counting Ingredients, Not Calories

Intense concern with the origin of food uncovers fundamental questions for food processors
Nick Roskelly, Executive Editor New Media/Business
Nicholas Roskelly
July 20, 2016
Major food companies have committed to wholesale changes in ingredient sourcing, which has disrupted supply chains and created acute frustration along with rare opportunity.
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Pure, Authentic Fruit

Mintel recently reported a 202% rise in foods and beverages wearing the more general “superfood” moniker in the five years ending in 2015
David Feder
David Feder , RDN
June 14, 2016
A formulator could almost bet on success of a product with any colorful and exotic fruit – especially the red, blue, and purple ones – that came loaded with powerful phytochemicals and nutrients like antioxidants, polyphenols, and anthocyanins.
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Ripe for Disruption: New Products Conference

Embark on three immersive days of discovery around the trends, knowledge and insights that matter most at the intersection of culinary, science and technology
Bob Garrison, Chief Editor
Robert Garrison
May 11, 2016
Ever forget how fast time flies? This certainly applies to people. Take me, for instance. I’m aging quickly and in my early 50s. Yet in my mind’s eye, I’m still just 27 or 28 years old. And you can imagine the disruptive surprise when an AARP card application arrived in the post.
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Healthy Products, Healthy Lifestyles

New food and beverage products that assume consumer health can find marketplace opportunities, and effect real change in overall community health
Nick Roskelly, Executive Editor New Media/Business
Nicholas Roskelly
April 11, 2016
A recent Mintel study found that 43% of Americans agree that living a modern lifestyle makes it very difficult to be healthy.
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