Healthy Vending and Other Emerging Trends

摘要

From vending of healthful foods and beverages to management, food technologists are following a new recipe for growth. It's a whole new world out there—energizing beers and spirits, frozen baby food and even espresso in self-heating cans—and it's moving at a record pace. An unprecedented and aggressive focus on healthier eating to prevent unhealthy conditions later in life, an overwhelming demand for immediate-consumption easy-access foods and beverages, and new generations with very new attitudes, have already re-charted the future of food. This article will discuss a series of high potential up-and-coming markets and identify those niche markets likely to move mainstream.