Kerry, a world leader in taste and nutrition, has recently presented its 2024 global taste charts, A World of Future Tastes, to the global food and beverage community. Kerry’s year-long study has culminated in a set of insightful, interactive charts designed for thirteen distinct regional marketplaces.
These graphs show the global adoption and development of flavors and offer a comprehensive examination of the components and patterns that will influence innovation in the food and beverage industry in the upcoming year. Product and menu creators worldwide can mine the charts as an online resource.
Researchers from Kerry also took a close look at the lifecycles of two historically popular flavors, orange and chocolate, to highlight the amazing rate of innovation that is occurring today. They also looked at how these common ingredients are now being used in a wide range of creative product offerings that are being produced all over the world. These two case studies demonstrate how numerous classic tastes from throughout the world are now combining into fresh, inventive applications as flavor and spice blends from far-off places are sourced, combined, and recombined to create mouthwatering new flavor experiences by product makers worldwide.
“The global exchange and dissemination of tastes and flavors through social media and travel is still in its infancy, and globalization in food, beverage and cuisine development make this a truly exciting time to be in the industry,” said Soumya Nair, Global Consumer Research and Insights director at Kerry. ”Although rapidly changing times can present great challenges, they also provide an unparalleled opportunity for brands to catch an emerging trend on the rise. We are seeing many unique flavor intersections in foods and beverages, and Kerry is using technologies such as Natural Language Processing, AI, social media and traditional consumer observation tools to stay ahead of the adoption curve, and to help customers navigate the emerging taste environment for products being developed in 2024.”
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