Dairy top trends: Innova Market Insights spotlights health, pleasure and plant-based alternatives

24 Feb 2020 — The influence of Innova Market Insights Top Ten Trends for 2020 is clearly apparent in the dairy category, which is facing key challenges amid changing consumer tastes. Among the notable shifts in purchasing behavior is the increasing demand for plant-based dairy alternatives. Meanwhile, the formulators in this sector are setting their sights on other opportunities for category expansion with novel texture-enhanced offerings and hybrid varieties.

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Top dairy ingredient trends: flavor innovation, clean label and environmentally friendly | 2018-12-05 | Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery

When it comes to snack and bakery products that feature dairy ingredients, consumers are demanding flavor innovations, as well as clean label and environmentally friendly dynamics.

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Shifts in dairy: Label-friendly claims top consumer preferences, finds Cargill study

25 Jul 2018 — Global changes in attitudes towards dairy include consumer concern around hormones, allergens and perceived unhealthfulness. At the same time, trends driving consumption include label-friendly and nutritional claims. According to the results of a new Cargill consumer study, clean label is growing in prevalence. The rise in “clean label seeking” in dairy is highest in Indonesia and China and lowest in Germany, the UK and Japan.

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Here’s Why Consumers Choose Non-Dairy Milks (And Why They Might Want to Look Deeper) – The Farmer’s Daughter USA

Non-dairy milks have certainly become trendy. The sector has grown by 61% since 2012 alone, and new options like almond and oat milk are more widely available. The plant-based alternative have become a staple in the dairy section of the grocery store, with the price of non-dairy milks quite competitive with dairy milk. So, why […]

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Milk may need a makeover: Alternatives to dairy are increasingly winning over consumers | Industries

Consumers are shying away from milk, turning instead to dairy alternatives made from soy, rice and oats, and other crops.     Those alternatives are still a small slice — just 3 percent of the $600 billion global dairy industry — but they are growing. Dairy alternatives increased 4 percent in the five years ended […]

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