Articles Tagged with ''consumer trends''

BMC says in the past five years the bottled water market has grown from 14.4 percent of the overall beverage market to 17.8 percent.

The association says more people are turning toward stronger flavors, alternative sweeteners and snacks.

Urbanspoon, a popular restaurant discovery app, has released its list of the most popular dishes and cuisines for 2014 and is looking ahead to 2015 with some bold predictions of food trends in the new year.

Despite limited to no interaction with agriculture and farming, more than half of American consumers indicate they would like to farmers when it comes to trusting their food, according to a recent survey sponsored by Bayer CropScience.

The E. & J. Gallo Winery recently commissioned the inaugural Gallo Consumer Wine Trends Survey to capture the current state of Americans’ wine drinking attitudes and behaviors and answer where, when and how Americans are enjoying wine.

Cereal lovers across the US can rejoice at the return of French Toast Crunch announced by General Mills this week after an 8-year hiatus.

Sales of alcoholic drinks in bars and restaurants are expected to grow by 2.7 percent in 2015 according to Technomic’s forecasts.

A new study suggesting five out of six Americans who try vegetarian diets return to a diet that includes meat has the American Meat Institute (AMI) offering an enthusiastic “welcome back” to those would be vegetarians.

In response to consumer preferences, representatives with Hershey’s, the US’s largest chocolate manufacturer, say the company is weighing the idea of replacing corn syrup with sugar in products that still use the sweetener, according to news reports.

Global information company the NPD Group recently released the results of its Kitchen Audit, a study that asks consumers to report on what appliances, cookware, and utensils they own, food ingredients they have on hand and what recipes they use.