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2024 Food & Beverage Trends: Flavors that Captivate and Connect
In part 2 of our series about food and beverage trends, discover flavors that can captivate and connect with people in 2024, meeting needs for energy, refreshment, delight, and new memories.
2024 Food & Beverage Trends: Cultural and Behavioral Changes Affecting Innovation
Let’s explore how cultural and behavioral changes will influence food and beverage trends and 2024 product innovation.
Bakery Innovation: Five Steps To Mixing Up Sweet Ideas
Increase your chances of in-market success with a strategic process for generating innovative ideas. Let’s explore five steps to sweet success in bakery innovation.
Innovation Investigation: Consumer, Market, and Flavor Trends in Better for You Candy
Discover pathways to bring your favorite confections treats to life while still meeting desirable label claims with Better for You candy.
How Flavors and Colors Work Together in Food and Beverage
Explore how color plays a role in flavor selection and taste experience as we examine color trends in core food and beverage categories.
What’s for Lunch: Trends and Insights to Inspire Innovation
Discover how food and beverage manufacturers can create connections with consumers during the middle of the day.
Innovation Evolution: Nostalgic Taste Trends in Baked Snacks, Cereal, and Confections
Let’s examine nostalgia trends and ideas for food and beverage brands to innovate with nostalgic flavors and formats.
FlavorScience Episode 7: Functional Beverage
In the seventh installment of the FlavorScience series, Flavor Development Manager, Pete Sauer, creates a strawberry white tea functional beverage with caffeine.
Experience-Inspired Flavors (Video)
Watch the video to learn how flavors can transport us to different places and help us feel more connected to special moments.
Innovation Evolution: Late Night Snacking Trends
Read about three late night snacking trends to guide brands’ creation of an innovative food or beverage perfect for satisfying the midnight munchies.
Predictions Spotlight: Experience-Inspired Flavors
We’re exploring our predictions for experience-inspired flavors. From new no-alcohol options to globetrotting flavors, here are the key trends to inspire your next delicious innovation.
News from IFT FIRST 2023
Discover news and food & beverage insights from IFT FIRST 2023, including details about delicious, innovative demos from FlavorSum.
Innovation Evolution: How New Food & Beverage Trends are Unfolding in 2023
Discover how 2023 food and beverage trends are shaping up in popular categories like dairy, bakery, beverage, alcohol, and confections.
Candy Innovation: Five Milestones on the Road to Crafting Sweet Success
How do you take candy innovation from an idea to a successful launch? Here are five milestones on your journey to crafting an irresistible confection.
Flavors for Feel Good Food and Beverages (Video)
Watch the video to learn how formulators can explore functionality using flavor as an avenue for both moderate and perceived benefits.
Predictions Spotlight: Elevated Taste Experiences
We’re taking a deeper dive into our predictions for elevated taste experiences. From dual tastes to indulgent flavors, here are key trends to help inspire your innovation journey.
The Next Generation of Delectable Desserts (Video)
What flavors and formats are trending in frozen, ambient, and chilled desserts? Let’s explore how brands can create innovative and indulgent desserts.
Crafting Food and Beverage Products that Appeal to Generation X
How can you connect with older generations? Let’s explore a few Generation X food and beverage trends and how brands can engage and build connections.
Creating Genuine Connections with Millennials
Let’s review key Millennial food and beverage trends to discover how brands can engage and connect with this tech-savvy and diverse generation.
How the Snack Bar Market is Evolving to Meet Consumer Needs (Video)
Let’s take a look at how snack bar formulators are finding new and creative ways to deliver great products to their customers.
Predictions Spotlight: Down to Earth Flavors
How are down-to-earth flavors, one of our 2023 predictions, emerging in NPD? Whether you’re innovating with floral, botanical, or mushroom profiles, earthy flavors can inspire your product development journey.
Creating Lasting Connections with Gen Z (Video)
Join us as we explore key attributes of Gen Z and the ways in which food and beverage brands can create connections with this diverse generation.
Innovation Evolution: The Next Generation of Delectable Desserts
What’s on the horizon for desserts? Read about the trending flavors and formats to learn how your brand can create innovative desserts that excite shoppers and inspire brand loyalty.
How the Snack Bar Market is Evolving to Meet Consumer Needs
From 2022 to 2023, snack bars, the favorite handheld treat, will continue on the path of innovation to introduce new concepts, formats, and flavors that address unique consumer needs.
Predictions Spotlight: Flavors for Feel Good Food and Beverages
Discover how our 2023 prediction, “feel good flavors” for mind, body, and soul enhancement is coming to life in the market.
ICYMI: Top Trending Food and Beverage Insights from 2022
You might have needed more time to keep up with our weekly food and beverage insights, so ICYMI, here are a few flavorful highlights from the FlavorSum team.
Food & Beverage Market Trends for 2023 (Video)
Let’s explore our 2023 predictions to discover how your brand can stand out in the food and beverage space in the new year!
Experiencing Travel Through Taste: Global Flavors to Inspire Innovation
Let’s explore trending internationally inspired flavors and how food and beverage innovators can help people experience travel through taste.
Flavors for Children (Video)
Let’s examine how food and beverage producers can craft products that appeal to kids and have the benefits and qualities that parents want.
Innovation Evolution: What’s Next In the Organic Food & Beverage Market?
Let’s explore trends in the organic food and beverage market to learn what’s driving recent innovations, growing categories, and trending flavors.
How to Create New Connections with Nostalgic Flavors
Nostalgic flavors offer opportunities to reimagine the classics as consumers look for ways to find comfort and stability after a turbulent two years.
Using Flavor to Enhance Mood-Boosting Foods & Beverages
Consumers are turning to nutrition to manage stress and balance their mood. Let’s explore how the relationship between flavor and function can lead to innovation opportunities.
Formulating with Flavor: Bakery Emulsions
Bakery product manufacturers can use emulsions for cost-effective, delicious, and flavorful cookies, cakes, and bars with guidance from FlavorSum.
How Beverage Innovation is Responding to Evolving Consumer Needs
The FlavorSum team identifies growth opportunities in several beverage segments by exploring the market, consumer, and flavor trends.