Market Signals + Trends dives into the consumer and industry insights shaping the future of food and beverage. From emerging flavor trends to generational preferences, posts in this category uncover what’s driving demand and guiding innovation.
Food Service Beverages: The Real Trendsetter In our Road Map to the Trends that Matter for Food Developers series, we’ve explored the ice cream, bakery, and cultured dairy trends that developers need to consider not just this year and next, but for the foreseeable future. We will also take a closer look at Food Service …
Botanical flavors in bakery are on the rise. Floral, herbaceous, spiced. These flavors are subtly igniting consumer imaginations and developers’ innovations across categories. In fact, as of 2025, the global botanical flavors market alone was valued at USD 9.0 billion. That is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.6%, reaching more than USD 20.5 …
The US food and beverage industry is experiencing one of the biggest shifts in decades. With macro movements like elevated nostalgia, internationally inspired tastes, the premiumization of segment staples, and cleaner, more natural labels charting course across categories, fruit trends in bakery are following suit. However, when compared to the “anything goes” approach of categories …
In the first two installments of our Roadmap to the Trends that Matter for Food Developers series, we took a detailed look at the ice cream and bakery trends. These trends will be driving developments for the rest of this decade, and maybe even into the next one. In this third and final part of …
Part 2: Bakery Trends for Food Developers In Part 1 of our A Roadmap to the Trends that Matter for Food Developers series, we explored ice cream trends that are not only dictating the market in 2026 but will continue to shape developments in 2027, 2028, and beyond. Here, we turn our attention to bakery …
Lists of 2026 ice cream trends are important. But they’re probably less valuable for developers than you might think. Their primary purpose isn’t to tell you what’s next; it’s actually to tell you what they already know will be filling store shelves in 2026. So, what’s often labeled “the next big thing” is usually code …
The Power of Nostalgic Flavors in Food and Beverage Nostalgic flavors are nothing new. The way they’re impacting the food and beverage industry is. The question is why? In a world of constant uncertainty, nostalgic foods help ground us in the comfort and familiarity of the past. I live in a place where the State …
Formulating winning flavor bases that keep up with global taste trends can be tough. But why? It isn’t an exaggeration to say that internationally-inspired flavors are taking the food and beverage industry by storm. A desire for multicultural flavors isn’t just a North American phenomenon. According to Innova Market Insights, 1 in 3 global consumers …
Developing on-trend flavors is far from easy. For product developers, it means balancing innovation with formulation challenges, as well as protecting shelf stability and maintaining performance over time. Success is about doing all of the above and offering exciting and authentic taste experiences that consumers won’t forget. Today, it’s global fusion flavor trends dominating social …
