Better-for-you snacks are positioned as healthier than conventional snacks, based on health claims and characterizations that consumers perceive as important to health such as clean label, low fat, low sodium, plant-based, and low/no added sugar.
September 16, 2021Industry players and marketers are doing their part in addressing health trends through new product development of better-for-you breakfast.
January 2, 2019Butter sales reached their highest level in decades
May 17, 2017July 11 - Have your healthy fats and learn about them too. A new paradigm is emerging for the use of fats and oils in healthier foods and diets. Packaged Facts research director David Sprinkle will present at this year’s annual Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) convention as part of a session delving into how oils contribute to healthier foods and snack products by looking at the latest data on consumer insights, nutrition, policy-making, and functional solutions. IFT16 will be held in Chi...
July 11, 2016Natural Products Expo East 2015 in Baltimore, MD will feature Packaged Facts research director David Sprinkle as a guest speaker. Sprinkle will present on the topic Healthy Fats and Oils: Immediate Solutions, Long-Term Benefits on September 17 at 9 am. As part of his presentation, Sprinkle will pinpoint three important factors that will stimulate sales growth of healthy fats and oils. They include: • innovating and maintaining product integrity in holistic ways that resonate with the generat...
September 8, 2015This past February, New York Yankee Mark Teixeira announced intentions to hit 30 home runs and collect 100 RBIs during the then-upcoming Major League Baseball season. Prior to 2012, these numbers would have been lofty yet attainable goals for a superstar of Teixeira’s stature. But in recent years the two time all-star first baseman appeared snakebitten having missed extensive time due to injuries that tarnished his reputation as one of baseball’s most feared sluggers. Fast forward four months ...
June 18, 2015Today’s consumers want and expect more than great taste and belly-filling from the foods and beverages they consume. Ninety percent of Americans believe that certain foods offer health benefits beyond basic nutrition, according to research published in Packaged Facts’ Functional Foods: Key Trends & Developments in Ingredients. Baby Boomers and Millennials are looking for products offering positive nutrition to help them optimize health and avoid chronic and, potentially, life-threatening illness...
January 14, 2015As expected, the FDA is (at a very measured pace) closing the door on trans fats. Our understanding of the role of fats and oils in the diet has advanced considerably since the simplistic 1980s and 1990s focus on reducing dietary fats altogether (Nabisco’s Snackswells brand is usually cited in this context). That made sense to a degree because fats are higher-calorie than protein or carbs, and because saturated and especially trans fats aren’t healthy. But that doesn’t mean that anyone ever go...
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