20 things you need to know about healthy food trends.

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3. Approximately 17% (12.5 million)
of children and adolescents
aged 2—19 years are obese.
(CDC, 2012)

4. Healthy Beverage Expo
experts claim that 2013-2014
will see healthy alcoholic
drinks emerge, including
wines instilled with goji
berries and ginseng, and
lower calorie and more
organic options.
(Beverage Daily.com, 2013)

5. A third of Americans in 2012 said they were trying to
cut back or eliminate gluten from their diets.”
“
(Food Show’s Trendiest Trend: Gluten-free, Crain’s New York Business, 2013)

6. 61%
(Marketdata Enterprises, 2012)
Regular
Supermarket Food
Dieter Preferences
Pre-Packaged or
Diet Company Food
Meal Replacements
No Food Preference
6.3%
4.9%
26%

7. Coconut water is also growing in popularity
as part of the health-and-wellness movement.
This natural juice from young coconuts is a
source of calcium, magnesium, electrolytes,
and potassium, and it’s low in calories and
has no fat.”
(Bringing The Juice, QSR)
“

8. There are
108 million
American
dieters, and
they make 4-5
dieting attempts
per year.
(Marketdata Enterprises)

9. 83.3% of dietingconsumers favor “do-
it-yourself” weight loss
programs accessed
from home (online or by
phone) or the use of diet
books or celebrity diet
plans (fad diets). “(Marketdata Enterprises, 2012)
“

10. The share of dieters that prefer
a self-directed program is now
82% during 2012— near the
highest ever.”
“
(Marketdata)

11. Juicing is more
than a trend—
it is a new food
and beverage
category.”
(The Great Juice Rush, QSR)
“

12. (MarketsandMarkets, 2012)
The food and beverage (F&B)
market is the largest segment
of the global weight loss market
and is expected to reach US
$215.9 billion by 2014 at a
CAGR of 10.8%.”
“

13. (Duke Medicine)
The key to avoiding the lose-gain
cycle also known as yo-yo dieting is
to approach weight control not as a
“diet” but as a change in lifestyle.

14. Children who
became obese as
early as age 2 were
more likely to be
obese as adults.”
“
(CDC, 2013)

15. (Dietary Trends, American, Yahoo! Health)
More than 30% of men and more than 40%
of women take a daily multivitamin/mineral
supplement.”
“

16. OTA says that with 9.5% growth
in 2011...
(Who’s Driving Growth in Organics?, Compass Natural)
U.S. sales of organic products
totaled $31.5 billion.
This represents 4.2% of overall
U.S. food sales.

17. Tax proponents of sugar-sweetened-
beverages believe the next step is to spread
the beverage industry’s resources thin through
passing at least 14 state or local beverage tax
ballot measures in 2014.”
(2013 Food and Beverage Industry Outlook, McGuireWoods)
“

18. (MarketsandMarkets, 2012)
“The North American
market is the largest
geographical
segment in the food
and beverage market;
and is expected to be
worth $253.7 billion
by 2014.”

19. Locally grown or
sourced ingredients fill
3 of the 10 spots in the
National Restaurant
Association’s annual
“What’s Hot” culinary
forecast, a survey
of more than 1,800
professional chef from
the American Culinary
Federation.”
“
(10 Trends for 2013, QSR Magazine)

20. Organic is creating jobs – more than 572,000 U.S.
jobs were created in the organic sector in 2010, at a
rate 21% higher than the conventional food industry.”
(The Food Awakening: Food Trends for 2013, Prevention.com)
“
According to a 2012 Organic Trade
Association study:

21. The Patient Protection
and Affordable Care
Act will affect the
restaurant industry
more than almost any
other industry when fully
implemented in 2014.”
“
(10 Trends for 2013, QSR Magazine)

22. The men’s weight loss market is
estimated to be worth $11.3 billion
next year—17% of the total diet
market. ”
(Marketdata Enterprises)“
Diet Market
17%

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