Articles Tagged with ''health and wellness''

A growing consumer awareness for feeding the microbiome is fueling new product innovation with the snack.

The supplier’s survey shows consumers seek fiber quality over cost in baked products.

Women’s health, affordable nutrition, and sugar and salt reduction are among some of the top areas for innovation in 2023. 

Fats, oils, starches, fiber, dough conditioners and texturizers all serve critical functional roles in snacks and baked goods, particularly maintaining the quality of the product throughout the desired shelf life. As consumers demand cleaner labels, more health-and-wellness benefits and better sustainability, product developers face a wide range of functional ingredient challenges.

KIND Snacks recently surveyed 740 dietitians and nutrition experts across the U.S. to predict where the country is headed in terms of health, fitness, and wellness, and a few of the most overhyped foods and diets of 2017.

About 25 years ago, most consumers and companies were primarily looking to solve baseline health-and-wellness conditions, or find new approaches to address them.