- by Cara Brosius
- September 16 2021
- fat-free
- food
- food additives
- health and wellness
- healthy snacks
Better-for-You Snack Trends
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.
- by Cara Brosius
- May 3 2021
- chocolate
- food flavors
- health and wellness
Better-for-You Chocolate Trends for Healthy Indulgence
Better-for-you snacks are proliferating as snacking throughout the day becomes normalized for many consumers.
- by Daniel Granderson
- March 1 2021
- health and wellness
- healthy eating
- nutrition
- plant protein
- sports nutritional products
- sports supplements
How to Create a Plant-Based Diet Suitable For Sports-Lovers
Thinking of going vegan? Giving up animal products doesn’t have to diminish your athletic capacity. Here’s how to create a plant-based diet for sports-lovers.
- by Daniel Granderson
- March 13 2020
- health
- health and wellness
- pet health
- pet owners
- veterinary
What We're Reading: Dog infected by coronavirus COVID-19 in Hong Kong
The World Organization for Animal Health published a report of the emerging disease, listing this case as the first in dogs.
- by Daniel Granderson
- March 21 2017
- functional foods
- health
- health and wellness
- nutritional supplements
- sports supplements
- weight management
Alternative and functional pain management gathers steam
The times, they are a changin’: the percentage of consumers who prefer “alternative medicine” to standard medical practice has risen from 17% over the past 10 years, a 37% jump. The trend extends deeply into the realm of pain management, which continues down an inclusive path that suggests success for alternative therapy professionals.
- by Aaron Hackle
- March 8 2017
- consumer goods
- consumer spending
- consumer trends
- consumers
- health
- health and wellness
- retail
Treating sleep disturbances: let me count the ways
If you have pain, take a pain reliever; if you can’t sleep, take sleep medication. Right? Wrong. Packaged Facts’ survey analysis suggests that sleep disturbance sufferers are much less likely than pain sufferers to take either OTC or prescription drugs to treat their condition. And yet OTC and prescription sleep remedies do the job: disturbance sufferers who take medication to treat their condition report high rates of relief.
- by Daniel Granderson
- November 16 2016
- health
- health and wellness
- marketing
- nutrition
- nutritional supplements
- sports nutritional products
- sports supplements
- women’s health
Nutritional supplement marketers must mind the celebrity gap
There is a huge gap in how men and women respond to endorsements of nutritional supplements from famous people. I discuss this gap and what it means for how supplement marketers can most effectively advertise to each gender in Packaged Facts’ report, "Nutritional Supplements in the U.S., 7th Edition". However, I thought I would break down those results a little more in this blog since the results are so fascinating.
- by Daniel Granderson
- November 2 2016
- alternative protein
- food beverage
- food research
- food retail
- health and wellness
- health food
- healthy eating
- plant protein
- protein
Is health of the planet more compelling than personal health?
The recent attention being paid to plant proteins, both by ordinary consumers and the food industry, begs the question, are consumers more willing to eat less meat to help save the planet than they are to reduce their own chances of developing heart disease?
- by [email protected]
- September 8 2015
- health and wellness
- fats
- oils
- food and beverage
- omega-3s
- olive oil
David Sprinkle to present on healthy fats and oils at Natural Products Expo East 2015
Natural 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...
- by [email protected]
- July 7 2015
- consumer trends
- food trends
- food beverage
- healthy eating
- health and wellness
- grains
- Ancient grains
Research director D. Sprinkle to present July 10 on consumer trends, health & wellness food drivers
Interested in learning more about health and wellness food drivers, including consumer demand for grains? Be sure to purchase your copy of the upcoming Packaged Facts report, Food Formulation Trends: Ancient Grains and Sprouted Grains (August 2015).
Packaged Facts research director David Sprinkle will be among the expert presenters at the “Innovation with Healthier Oils & Grains: Solutions to Meet Changing Policies and Demands” course hosted by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) on July...
