The past year has driven renewed demand for foods that offer benefits like convenience, comfort, or healthy nutrition. These effects are being seen throughout the grocery store—impacting even consumer choices in bakery aisle staples like bread. Here we explore some of the bakery trends growing in 2021 and what food manufacturers can do to meet these needs.
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Strong consumer interest in healthier snacking options is driving growth in the sugar substitutes market. Here’s a look at the trend in sugar-free foods and beverages—plus key takeaways for food and beverage manufacturers.
Glanbia Nutritionals surveyed consumers around the world to gain insights into consumer trends in nutritional supplements. Here we explore five important findings around consumers’ top health priorities, favorite supplement ingredients, and more.
Snacks
GuideThe snackification of meals is fundamentally changing the snack foods industry. With multiple snacking occasions per day and the rise in snacks replacing meals, consumers’ expectations in snacks have expanded beyond indulgence and satiety. This year’s snack trends include a new health focus, new ingredients and some serious flavor exploration.
The eSports market, forecast to reach $1.8 billion by 20221, has become a global phenomenon with international tournaments, professional gamers, sponsors, merchandise, and more. Gamers, known for their brand loyalty and strength as influencers on social media, remain a largely untapped market for food and beverage manufacturers.
As the fastest-growing segment in consumer health, sports nutrition is drawing unprecedented attention from food, beverage, and supplement manufacturers. Learn what’s driving both core users and active lifestyle newcomers to purchase sports nutrition products and how manufacturers can seize this high growth opportunity.
As oat beverages expand around the world, brands are looking for new ways to grab consumers’ attention. See how the next generation of oat beverages is addressing consumers’ unmet needs.
The rapid expansion of e-commerce grocery due to the pandemic has created many new challenges for grocery retailers. Learn about the new strategies retailers are using and the emerging opportunity for shelf-stable yogurt in e-commerce.
The U.S. ready-to-drink (RTD) sports drink market has grown to over $10 billion annually thanks to new categories of consumers.1 Learn how the broad appeal of convenient, healthy refreshment is winning fans beyond the sports crowd and which innovations can help RTD beverage manufacturers capitalize on this growing opportunity.