2018 Food and Beverage Trends

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What are consumers choosing to eat? When and where do consumers search for meal solutions? Who’s preparing that meal? How do meal solutions get to the consumer?

Consumers are demanding more from their dairy product favorites—as in more clean labels, value-added ingredients, portability and sugar reduction.

The ready-to-eat breakfast cereal category's hopes of innovating a way out of its sales slump largely were dashed in 2017. New product launches were plentiful, but none are likely to register as blockbusters.

The 2018 beverage trends report takes a look at influential macro-trends and how they're impacting beverage categories.

Perhaps it's just how the cookie crumbles. But when it comes to food trends, there are few food categories like bakery foods that illustrate the large gap between what consumers say—and what consumers actually do.

"Clean label"—despite lacking a legal or commonly accepted definition—is a wake-up call to the food industry to re-examine ingredients, formulations, and processing for contemporary consumers who are increasingly mindful of their food and beverage choices.

Welcome to 2018. I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to this shiny new year. We closed 2017 with a whole-issue peek into our crystal ball, hopefully helping processors get a jump on the food, beverage, and ingredient trends for the next 365 days and beyond.

Spanning the universal themes of preservation, automation, aesthetics, sustainability, and trust, these trends provide a full view of next year’s global packaging industry.

Consumers are embracing prepared foods and retailers couldn't be happier. Supermarkets embracing prepared foods are experiencing significant growth.

While many shifts in the restaurant industry are slow to take hold, the use and availability of data is one trend that's quickly emerging.