Trends & Innovation in Food Industry
Innovation in food industry is dealing with dynamic nature of consumer demands. Today consumer’s choices towards food are strongly influenced by taste, nutrition and sustainable aspect of the food source. Some of the recent trends in consumer demands are
- Plant based diets
- Low/No sugar, fat and alcohol
- Social-media friendly foods and beverages
- Sustainable food sources, processes and packaging
- Transparency & Trace-ability
Thus, food industry is bringing innovative solutions to meet consumer demands.
Nowadays, YouTube is one of the most used platform for video sharing. Info-graphic videos on this subject can provide easily understandable information in more entertaining way, as saying goes ‘Picture is worth 1000 words’.
In this short article, recent trends and innovation initiatives of food industry covered using info-graphic videos from various trusted sources.
Plant based foods
Consumers are looking for plant based alternatives to meat and dairy products, so industry is responding with solutions like lab cultured meat, plant protein solutions to mimic meat products and fermentation to produce dairy products. Some of the prominent examples of these include companies like Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat and Perfect Day.
CBD craze
Cannabidiol (CBD) is a phytocannabinoid, which is gaining momentum for its food and beverage applications. However, regulations in various countries needs to be cleared for doubts related to its application and safe consumption.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Food Industry
Similar to most of the industries, AI has entered food industry to deliver efficiency and productivity in all stages of processing covering from farm to fork.
Blockchain for Food Safety & Trace-ability
Unless you are living under rock for last 4–5 years, you probably have heard about BitCoins by now. Similar technology is used to enhance food safety and trace-ability related issues.
Sustainable Ingredients, Processes & Packaging
Every food company nowadays have set very ambitious sustainability goals with respect to sourcing of raw materials/ingredients, reducing their energy and carbon requirements for processes; and eco-friendly packaging materials.
Vertical Farming
In order to feed growing population and increasing number of cities, we need to reinvent farming and vertical farming is one of the solutions.
CRISPR Food — Gene Editing
We have seen GMO revolution which soon could be replaced by CRISPR gene editing technology.
Food on Mars
Yes, we haven’t reached Mars yet, but researchers have already started to concentrate their efforts to grow enough food for humanity, in case we reach and plan on colonizing Mars.
So, these are some of the info-graphic videos and short documentaries on trends and innovation in food industry.
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