January 2023

Prepared Foods

Check out the January 2023 issue of Prepared Foods, featuring our cover story on strategies for reducing sugar and sweetening beverages, the appeal of snacks to consumers, and much more.

Consumer Sweet Preferences Make Sugar Reduction Challenging for Product Developers

Beverages continue to lead all categories of foods and beverages with the greatest number of low/no sugar claims

Alexa Bosshardt MPS, RDN

December 12, 2022

Global concerns over obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease will usher in the new year’s health and wellness initiatives. Consumers will engage in the annual effort to seek out food and beverage choices with more moderate amounts of nutritive sweeteners (i.e., sucrose and fructose), lower amounts of “undesirable” fats, and fewer calories.

Snacks Appeal to Consumer Interests with Fun, Indulgence and Nutrition

Consumers are poised to splurge in small ways on affordable pleasures such as snacks that bring a high level of enjoyment for a low price.

Lu Ann Williams

January 13, 2023

Each fall, Innova Market Insight releases its Top 10 Trends for the coming year. Then the anticipation and excitement begin as we link those top trends to topics we write and speak about—including snacking.

Fresh, Frozen, Thick Crust or Thin, the World Loves Pizza

According to Datassential, breakfast pizza popularity is expected to grow 15% in the next four years

David Feder , RDN

January 4, 2023

Recipe innovation is at the forefront of product development, and to win new customers, traditional combinations (featuring such standbys as pepperoni, sausage, or mushrooms) are giving up space to new meat combinations, as well as novel vegetable crusts, sauces, plant-based toppings, other natural ingredients and spices sourced from the world’s cuisines.

New Food & Beverage Products Featuring Fruit Ingredients

This month’s collection includes smoothies, culinary salad kits and muesli cereals

January 10, 2023

Convenience, plant-based nutrition, and restaurant-inspired international flavors are driving food innovations, and chopped salads kits are well positioned to drive growth for the value-added salad.

Consumers are actively seeking everything from enhanced focus and better information processing, to reduced stress, improved mood, faster learning, effective memory, better adaptability, and enhanced multitasking. This session will review the science behind these ingredients and how they can be added to your formulations to tap into the cognitive support wave.

Remember a child’s kaleidoscope? You put your eye to a cylinder fitted inside with angled mirrors and—as soon as you twist the end of the cylinder—there’s a changing pattern with the shifting of small pieces of colored glass. That’s also something of an apt description for the plant-based food and beverage market, which continues to capture attention as it grows and shifts.

Prepared Foods

January 2023

Cover Story

Consumer Sweet Preferences Make Sugar Reduction Challenging for Product Developers

Features

Snacks Appeal to Consumer Interests with Fun, Indulgence and Nutrition

Fresh, Frozen, Thick Crust or Thin, the World Loves Pizza

Departments

New Food & Beverage Products Featuring Fruit Ingredients

Get our new eMagazine delivered to your inbox every month.

Stay in the know on the latest food & beverage product development trends.