12 Global Food and Beverage Trends For 2018
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The document outlines 12 key food and beverage trends for 2018, reflecting changes in consumer preferences driven by busy lifestyles and health awareness. Trends include a preference for convenient, ready-made, and healthy food options, alongside an increased interest in international cuisines and attractive packaging. Also highlighted are innovations such as self-heating packaging and a shift away from traditional fast food towards more reputable brands.
12 Global Food and Beverage Trends For 2018
- 1. 12 Global Food and Beverage Trends for 2018
- 2. Foods and Beverages Foods and beverages are naturally some of the most used products in daily lives of every person on earth. These are both essential parts of the human body, and like everything else around us, we all like foods and beverages that we appreciate both in their taste and also their nutritional characteristics.
- 3. International Food Tastes Food and beverage habits have evolved over the years especially with the mixing of communities and international food tastes and traditions, the new food trends for 2018 are much different than what they used to be only a few decades ago. Here are some significant food trends of the present year:
- 4. Trend #1: Food on the Go With busy work and life routines, most people no longer have that kind of time on their hands where they can spend hours on cooking foods and preparing beverages for themselves and others around them. The most significant preference for people in 2018 is to get readymade food on the go that they can just buy and consume.
- 5. Trend #2: Healthy Foods and Beverages With all the information available on different channels like label information, social media or the internet in general, people are much more aware of what they should be eating to stay healthy, and that’s what they prefer.
- 6. Trend #3: International Foods If you look around in any of your local markets or town centers, you will notice the abundance of international foods restaurants and take away stores. The general liking of local people in any given market has shifted towards international foods that are not native to their regions.
- 7. Trend #4: Good Looking Foods For such a long time, the preference has always been to get food that tastes good and is made from healthy ingredients, a new addition to the preferences in 2018 has been the presentation and how the prepared food items look. French delicacies like the Macarons are a perfect example.
- 8. Trend #5: Long Lasting Foods The busy routines cutting down time people can spend on cooking has also changed food storage priorities. In 2018, people prefer foods that can last a good amount of time without going stale and being able to be enjoyed over more than one meals.
- 9. Trend #6: Portable Packages Another very significant trend in 2018 is to have your food and beverages products as well portable as possible. People are always on the move and food that can move with them and can be consumed whenever or wherever required is appreciated.
- 10. Trend #7: Self Heating Packaging With innovations in packaging materials and techniques, self-heating packaging that can heat the food where and when required without the need of microwaves or ovens is entering the marketing fast in 2018.
- 11. Trend #8: Hands off Foods With so many people always on the go, the other common limitations is that unavailability of hand washing spaces and necessities. Food that doesn’t require hands-on routines is the new do.
- 12. Trend #9: Disposable Packaging Again with people always on the move, the modern 2018 requirement is for food or beverage packaging that is easily disposable and doesn’t require any washing or cleaning for them at all. This is the kind of limitation experienced in busy lifestyles.
- 13. Trend #10: The Dislike for Fast Foods Even though fast food chains like Pizza Hutt, McDonald's, KFC or Dominos might be experiencing growth, but it is not as much as the growth in population and the general awareness in what to eat has meant that people are diverting from oily and fatty fast foods in 2018.
- 14. Trend #11: Shift Towards Better Foods in General People are moving towards well-known food brands in all kinds of foods. Packaged food brands like Nestle or DANONE have become much more appreciated because of the quality ingredients they use and the general perception and appreciation people have for them.
- 15. Trend #12: Attractive Food Packaging In the more competitive modern world, like anything else, what looks more attractive sells more. This rule applies to food products as well. Custom Printed Food Packaging has gotten so much better and efficient and does the best job of attracting hungry people towards them.
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