Snack Food Nutrition Trends: Pulses, Vegetables, and Grains in Salty Snacks and Crackers
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Published Jan 20, 2017 |
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Growth of the alternative ingredients snack market will remain moderate to strong over the next three years through 2019, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.2% to reach sales of $1,700 million. The increase in number of snackers looking for healthy snack alternatives will be a strong driver for the market, as will the continued interest in snacks offering flavor and texture variety, which alternative ingredients snacks offer.
Snack Food Nutrition Trends: Pulses, Vegetables, and Grains in Salty Snacks and Crackers
Families with children and the younger generational cohorts are driving the market for healthy snack alternatives in lieu of more traditional snack foods. Sales of these alternative ingredients snacks within the salty snacks and crackers market segment were robust in 2016, growing 5.2% in the year and outpacing overall sales growth in these two snack segments. Vegetable-based snacks (not including potato) has been the fastest growing category, followed by pulse-based snacks. Sales of alternative grain formulation snacks were flat, despite whole grain and multigrain snack formulations being the most popular types of alternative ingredients snacks with consumers. Ingredient substitutions such as the use of specific vegetables in formulations and marketing such as sweet potato and spinach are popular, but are still far outnumbered by the amount of popular snack foods that simply call out the use of vegetables (or “veggies”) to promote a better-for-you snacking product. Generic “bean” formulations are also popular, but chickpea-based snacks are the fastest growing subcategory for pulse-based snacks.Growth of the alternative ingredients snack market will remain moderate to strong over the next three years through 2019, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.2% to reach sales of $1,700 million. The increase in number of snackers looking for healthy snack alternatives will be a strong driver for the market, as will the continued interest in snacks offering flavor and texture variety, which alternative ingredients snacks offer.