It’s our favorite time of year…the trend prediction season. The big reveal of food trend predictions is Christmas for food industry professionals and here at Nikken, we are always inspired and sometimes surprised by what is expected in the coming year. We could wait but these lists are so good and chock full of macro…
Welcome back fat! The often-maligned ingredient appears to be returning to the good graces of consumers and food professionals alike. Could the days of buttering bread, sautéing vegetables or meats in oil, and tossing salads with creamy dressings become the stuff of reality and not teenage dreams? Not so fast. All consumers aren’t convinced as…
There’s nothing more social than food. It is a daily unifier for families, friends, co-workers and even strangers. Both connector and barrier breaker, food has broken into the biggest social circle of all: social media. Today, consumers can’t help themselves from snapping, tweeting, tumbling and posting about food and many of their food choices are…
If you were in Las Vegas for Supply Side West ’16, you are probably still full—just like we are. Between bites of our back-to-reality kale salad, our mouths are still watering and our taste buds have been elevated no doubt. We thought it only fair to share the tastes that we simply can’t get over…
Consumers are obsessed with food; they watch cooking shows and scour Pinterest and websites with visions of being the next contestant on Chopped. They’re hungry all the time but don’t have the time to shop and cook the meals they want at home. Add to this the fact that the unique, fresh sourced ingredients they…
It’s happened. Eating healthy is cool. Vegans, Paleo and Whole 30 devotees have become part of the “in crowd,” with more consumers than ever making bold declarations of challenging their food to do more for them. It seems that you can’t go a day without hearing about someone at work, in the neighborhood, at the…
Snacking. It’s become a way of life, a bonafide part of our day. And with 94% of Americans admitting to snacking at least once a day and forty percent of adults substituting a snack for a meal these days, the choices required to satisfy diverse palates and dietary choices has to be bountiful, flavorful and…
Wow – did that happen fast! Snapchat, the social media app embraced by GenZ and Millennials alike, has surpassed both Twitter and Instagram in daily usage and has passed Instagram in the amount of time spent on it.1,2 As of June, 2016, Snapchat had 150 million users per day –that’s a whole lot of captured…
Its subtle—but have you noticed how the burger has been elevated to a whole new status? Today’s burger is much more than “two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese”. The bun and what is sandwiched between is the juicy manifestation of all that is trending in our industry. Let’s pop the lid off the burger…
Ok we admit it: we are Twitter lurkers. We have found that there is a lot on Twitter that relates to our business, industry and the whole world of food –all of it educational and very tasty. There is a bounty of Twitter feeds from chefs, industry publications and organizations, print and digital magazines and…
