Puratos Canada: taking steps to offer healtier ingredients
Mississauga / CA. (pnv) For decades, Puratos Canada has developed solutions to improve the nutritional value of baked goods and launch more transparent, Clean(er) labels, as well as organic, gluten-free and plant-based alternatives. Puratos has developed a more proactive approach...
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Gen Z and Millennial Consumers Favor Organic Foods
Rockville / MD. (pf) The prevailing demographic of organic consumers skews in two directions. Most obvious are consumers who are upscale (including higher educational attainment and household income). Less obvious are younger adult consumers of the Gen Z (ages 18-24) and Millennial...
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Food Companies are Betting Big on Plant-based Innovation
New York / NJ. (fnm) The plant-based food market is growing exponentially and completely disrupting the global meat and dairy sector, causing major meat producers Maple Leaf Foods Inc., Tyson Foods Inc. and packaged foods company ConAgra Brands Inc. to shift their focus and create plant...
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Dutch Wessanen becomes B Corp food business
Amsterdam / NL. (wnv) Dutch Wessanen Group, a European leader in healthy, organic and sustainable food, has proudly announced that all of its businesses have now earned B Corp certification; making it the first group-certified food company in Europe. Each of Wessanen’s businesses have under...
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Organic Food: Eating with a Conscience in Europe
Munich / DE. (mi) According to Mintel market research’s GNPD Global New Products Database, in the last 10 years, the total number of new food and drink product launches globally with an organic claim has risen from 6 percent to 10 percent between August 2009 and July 2019. Mintel research finds...
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Nestle: announces push to use Nutri-Score in Europe
Vevey / CH. (nsa) Swiss Nestle S.A. announced that it will use Nutri-Score nutrition labeling in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland, starting in the first half of 2020. The company will implement Nutri-Score across brands of its wholly-owned businesses over a two-year period...
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General Mills: achieves sodium reduction commitment
Minneapolis / MN. (gm) General Mills Inc. reported it has achieved its public goal to reduce sodium by 20 percent across all ten key U.S. product categories. In an update to its 2015 voluntary sodium reduction announcement, General Mills reported that the three remaining key categories...
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Survey Finds Consumers Turn to Private Brands for Better Value, Not Just Better Price
Chicago / IL. (iri) Although 57 percent of consumers say their financial health is good, fears of a recession are driving slightly less consumer confidence in Q3/2019, according to the latest IRI Consumer Connect Survey results. Expecting to face a recession – or, perhaps more likely, a...
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Out-of-home market is the place to explore new tastes
Chicago / IL. (tni) While consumer demand for flavor innovation is high, Technomic’s «2019 Flavor Consumer Trend Report» reveals that consumers’ willingness to try new flavors varies by dining occasion. Consumers are less likely to experiment with flavors when ordering delivery rather...
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Meat substitute market to reach 8.1 billion USD by 2026
Portland / OR. (amr) Allied Market Research published a report, titled, «Meat Substitute Market by Product: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2019 to 2026.» According to the report, the global meat substitute industry garnered USD 4.48 billion in 2018, and is expected to garner...
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