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Stronger Drink Profiles To Dominate The Beverage Market

Why are consumers seeking strong flavours for their beverages? To what extent is COVID-19 responsible? (more…)

Protein Powered Solutions for Beverage Innovations

When it comes to developing successful beverages, quenching consumers’ thirsts is just the start. The pandemic has contributed to a shift in consumer behaviour, increasing focus on health and nutrition while also reinforcing a desire for enjoyable, comforting options. Martin Teo, Technical Director—Food Applications at the U.S. Dairy Export Council…

Savoury Snacks On Fire: Spice & Chili Flavours Take The Lead

Kerry predicts the spice and chili trend in savoury snacks to take on three directions in 2021. Heat has always been a key taste profile driving flavour innovation for savoury snacks. The difference now is that changing consumer snacking patterns and behaviours have refocused heat towards intensity and specific…

How Is The Pandemic Affecting Consumers’ Tastes & Consumption Patterns?

Avinash Lal, Market Research and Consumer Insights Director, Kerry Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, highlights three notable ways in which the pandemic has affected consumer interests. Turning To Original Food Consumers are seeking original foods more than before through an increased preference for traditional, local and familiar flavour profiles.…

Serving Up Culinary Flavours In Snacks

Depending on where you are in the world, mala, kimchi, gyoza, barbecue, cheese and red chilli are foods or ingredients you would expect to find in a meal. These days however, split open a bag of potato chips or puff snack and you’ll be served up a buffet of tastes…

The K-Food & Snack Renaissance

For manufacturers, whether it’s keeping traditional K-food or reforming and reshaping popular food, disruption is the key to achieving success in the K-food market within South Korea and around the globe. By Sunny Moon, Senior Analyst—Food & Nutrition at Euromonitor International. The highly influential Korean Wave has brought upon the…

The new year will bring new challenges in satisfying consumers looking for adventurous flavours. By Kristi Saitama, U.S. Dairy Export Council

Snacking Reimagined: US Dairy Proteins and Permeates Poised to Inspire Innovation in the New Year

The new year will bring new challenges in satisfying consumers looking for adventurous flavours. By Kristi Saitama, Vice President And Team Lead—Southeast Asia, U.S. Dairy Export Council Innova Market Insights says the connected world has led consumers of all ages to become more knowledgeable of other cultures, contributing to…

Into The Food Matrix With ADM

The ADM team understands the delicate process of attaining balance between taste, functionality, nutrition and texture within the food matrix to deliver on-point relevant solutions to customers. The Millennial demographic has been leading the evolution of ‘glocalised’ flavours, resulting in marketing efforts being narrowed to niche markets to create a…

Flavours: A Vanilla Perspective

Lionel Flutto, president, flavour, Symrise Asia Pacific, and Romy Weytens, taste competence manager, spoke with APFI at length about the vanilla industry and what the company has been doing to help smallholder vanilla farmers in the past 10 years. A first of our two-part vanilla feature, they share their insight…