Consumer Demand for Healthy Choices
What: Overwhelmingly, consumers are seeking out healthy lifestyle options, leading to an increased awareness of nutrition labels and ingredients.
And as the demand for products without certain ingredients – gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free – and flexitarian and plant-forward diets become more mainstream, the market for clean label, plant-based ingredients continues to flourish.
Why Almonds? In general, health claims are featured more frequently on product introductions with almonds versus total food introductions1.