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Authenticity Matters in Products
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According to Paul Baker, founder of St Pierre Bakery, consumers are more inquisitive about the authenticity of their products. Read more on how authenticity is driving consumer demand for artisanal baked goods here.
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TikTok’s Most Popular Christmas Recipes
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Jack and Beyond Christmas Cakes, an award-winning online cake shop in Fulham, London, recently sought to find the most popular Christmas recipes for 2021 using TikTok, where Christmas recipe hashtags have over 135 million views.
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Here are their findings:
- Christmas M&M Cookies – 3.6 million views
- Roast Potato Christmas Trees – 2.6 million views
- Christmas Bark – 1.4 million views
- Grinch Brownies – 970,000 views
- Oreo and Reeses Chocolate Baubles – 651,000 views
- Christmas Tree Breadsticks – 283,000 views
- Honey and Thyme Roasted Parsnips and Carrots – 138,200 views
- Panettone – 136,700 views
- Sloe Gin – 64,600 views
- Mulled Wine – 30,700 views
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Meet Consumer Demand with Our Gourmet Bagel and Croissant Offerings
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Our bagel offerings include everything, plain, onion, cinnamon raisin, poppy, multi-grain and more.
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Our filled bake-off croissant varieties include chocolate hazelnut, almond, and raspberry.
To order or to request samples email us at order@usfisales.com
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Yelp Reveals Trending Food and Beverage Items for 2022
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Yelp’s data science team analyzed millions of reviews to find the words and phrases that were rising significantly between 2020 and 2021 across food. Finally, it consulted with Yelp Trend Expert Tara Lewis to zero in on what to watch for the year ahead.
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Here are the food items to look out for in 2022:
- Croffle (up 1,505%)
- Egg Bread (up 457%)
- Macadamia Pancakes (up 613%)
- Malasada (up 130%)
- Blonde Pizza (up 953%)
- Pizza Cones (up 51%)
- Calic Bread (up 1,269%)
Read more about these food items and for some beverages and industry trends for 2022 here.
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USDA Offering $1.5 Billion in School Meal Help
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A $1.5 billion program to provide states and school districts facing challenges with school meal programs because of supply chain disruptions was announced Dec. 17, the USDA will provide $1 billion for schools to buy foods for meal programs, $300 million to purchase foods to be distributed to schools and another $200 million for cooperative agreements to purchase local food.
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Mini Cakes are Big with Consumers
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Consumers like the portion size and variety that a box of cupcakes or snack cakes. Read the full article on how smaller sizes remain a huge trend for cakes.
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Instacart’s 2021 Deliver
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Instacart released their 2021 Delivered which highlights the trends ordered from Instacart over the past year. The Up’s from this year include pasta, cereal bars, and sandwiches and wraps.
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Reimagining Deli and Bakery for Today’s Grocery Shopper
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During Supermarket News’ webinar on Reimagining Deli & Bakery, guests presented 9 key takeaways to reimagine deli and bakery.
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Here are those key takeaways:
- Online and social media
- Impact of labor shortages
- Supply chain
- Premiumization in the perimeter
- Shoppers with a mission
- Growth in frozen
- Getting creative
- Convenience factor
- Solution center
Read the full article and watch the webinar here.
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‘Disastrous’ Plastic Use in Farming Threatens Food Safety
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According to report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, the use of plastic on farming is causing the soil to have more microplastic pollution than the oceans.
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Grubhub Reveals Most Popular Eating Habits for 2021
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Grubhub released their 2021 top trends on foods and other essentials ordered throughout last year. There rankings include categories such as convenience orders, candies, breakfast, lunch, dinner, as well as predictions for next year, and more. Read all their top trends here.
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Climate Friendly Chicken
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Environmentally conscious consumers will soon be able to buy “carbon-reduced” chicken that’s partially raised on food waste diverted from grocery stores. Do Good Chicken, which launches at major national retailers in February, is a sign of things to come as the food industry increasingly grapples with consumer concern about the climate crisis. Read more about climate friendly chicken here.
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