Check out the April 2023 issue of Prepared Foods, featuring our cover story on organic ingredient options and ideas for snacks, a look at the crackers category, and much more.
Breakfast items like cereals, omelets, and hash browns have become popular as snacks. Meeting this trend from the other direction, such comfort and enjoyment, coupled with convenience and variety, are increasingly repositioning snacks as replacements for meals.
Gen Z consumers are trend creators who define what markets should be provide. They welcome positive engagement with companies and seek new experiences.
Recent insights show more consumers eat more plant-based meat, poultry, and seafood analogues from restaurants because these foods are prepared in the same way as animal proteins.
Whether you pour it, spread it, slice it or spoon it—plant-based dairy options are making inroads in consumer kitchens. Retail 2021 data from the Good Food Institute and SPINS showed plant-based milk category sales at $2.6 billion alone with one- and three-year growth figures of 4% and 33% respectively. Moreover, plant-based milks enjoyed a 16% share of market two years ago and 42% share of household penetration.
Allergen-free products and innovations that feature upcycled ingredients illustrate creativity in the bakery category
April 25, 2023
Upcycled spent grains specialist Brewer's Foods, Somerville, Mass., added Chocolate Chip Sea Salt Brewer’s Cookies to its growing line, which already features pita chips and flatbread crackers. Officials note the cookies feature Callebaut chocolate (ethically sourced, sustainably grown), Cabot butter from sustainable farms, and King Arthur flour with wheat grown without pesticides or herbicides.
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