Gone are the days when a bag of frozen fruit was seen as the poor man’s alternative to a fresh punnet of juicy strawberries. Today America has a much bigger appetite for frozen fruit, and suppliers have the smoothie craze to thank for it.
We’ve long been drinking coffee by the capsule, but what if we could do the same with juice? Start-up Juicero has raised $120 million to do just that – deliver the freshest juices to home-service dispensers to bring juicers better quality than is available in the shops. How big could it be?
How snacking is taking over the US one bite at a time
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6 Feb 2015
More calories were consumed in snacks during the 2015 Super Bowl than at Thanksgiving dinner in 2014. Snacking in the US is at an all-time high, with 91% doing it daily. So why is the 'little and often' habit replacing traditional meals? And what does the average American really want from a snack?
As society becomes more pressed for time, snacking is convenient and quick. With diet-conscious consumers looking for healthier options, drinkable foods like Mamma Chia's organic seed juices are bridging the gap between food and drink.
With less time dedicated to the most important meal of the day, busy people have turned to convenience breakfast products, but how many of them are actually filling us up? NOSH promises a ‘real breakfast in a bottle’ with its Super Brekkie ‘Froothies’.