Almond Leads as Most Popular Nut, but Hazelnut Dominates Chocolate Product Activity

摘要

Almond is still the most popular nut to use in new product introductions, closely followed by hazelnut and peanut. A scan of new product introductions using Innova Market Insights new ingredient search technology found 1,466 launches worldwide for almonds in the last six months of 2009 (Jul-Dec 09). This was followed by hazelnut (1,256), peanut (1,086), walnut (292) and pistachio (167).