Firmenich has announced cucumber as the 2017 “Flavour of the Year” based on its growing appeal - demand for refreshing, clean, and healthy food and beverages is driving cucumber’s surge in popularity.
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When a giant food company invests $32-million in a startup focusing on personalized nutrition – as Campbell’s recently has – then you know that “personalization” has reached its tipping point. This is a key trend identified in New Nutrition Business' annual report, 10...
Growing calls for transparency throughout the supply chain are taking clean and clear label to a new and supreme level. This comes as the inherent benefits of plant-based products are being active marketed to a more health conscious consumers. “Clean Supreme” and “Disruptive Green” lead...
In a newly released Food & Drink 2016 report, Waitrose has identified four broad trends highlighting how what we eat is increasingly becoming a way of expressing who we are and tips a number of trends to watch for the year ahead. [Great insights and...
Taking their cue from the success of carbonated waters and seltzers, alcohol brands are cutting calories.
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The US spirits industry is seeing a craft movement take hold across bars and retail outlets in a way that could mirror the success craft brewers.
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The European and US craft beer sector has exploded in the last ten years – in fact micro is now mainstream, as highlighted by recent acquisitions of craft brewers by the big players in the industry.
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The US/the world is currently in the third wave coffee movement, but what exactly are these “waves”? Mintel’s expert analysts share a brief history of the different coffee waves and their predictions on what’s to come.
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How did a substance that falls from the air, springs from the earth and comes out of your tap become a hyperactive multibillion-dollar business?
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There’s a growing trend in the world of wine that many wine producers have been slow to catch up to. It doesn’t have anything to do with grapes, blends or finishes. It has to do with size, asserts a senior Tetra Pak marketing executive.
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The latest issue of the annual Tetra Pak Index is focused exclusively on 100% juice for the first time. The report identifies consumer trends driving new growth opportunities for producers around the world.
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From lattes in trendy coffee shops to standalone products from companies like WhiteWave, banana milk could be the latest dairy alternative craze to disrupt an increasingly fragmented industry.
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The once-thriving market for frozen orange-juice concentrate is getting squeezed - by disease, waning demand and the weather.
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New research from Mintel reveals standout results for global energy drink innovation.
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From teas enriched with medicines to programmable tea taps, the humble brew could see a dramatic evolution over the coming years, says Tetley. Even the concept of tea consumed as a liquid could be challenged.
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With National Afternoon Tea Week steaming ahead this week In the UK (8th-14th August), new research from Mintel indicates that older consumers may be the first to clink their cups and saucers in celebration.
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Sherry, once the go-to aperitif for the English tea-drinking classes, has been making a comeback, against the odds, and with such dramatic force that the power of its appeal needs understanding and interpretation, writes Michael Fridjohn.
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Spirits companies and brewers are rolling out vegan, all-natural, gluten-free and non-alcoholic offerings, as consumer preferences shift.
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Two in five US consumers are replacing their breakfast with nutritional and performance drinks, finds a new Mintel study.
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Demystification and democratisation initiatives will allow the wine category to breathe and venture out of its stuffy cellar of complacency and stiff traditionalism, contends Euromonitor analyst, Spiros Malandrakis, in his usual rather-literary style!
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