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Research and Markets: Ten Key Trends In Functional Foods 2007 Is A Practical Tool, Setting Out The Effect The Key Trends Will Have On Companies Such As Tesco, Coca-Cola And Yoplait's Strategies.


DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50272) has announced the addition of Ten Key Trends in Food, Nutrition & Health 2007 to their offering.

Our annual review, Ten Key Trends in Food, Nutrition & Health, is one of the most sought-after publications in the food industry. Companies who subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day"
subscribe, take

buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company";
 us know that we provide the best, most insightful and most useful case studies and analysis of the business of food and health - that's why we've been around for eleven years.

The past 12 months have seen major developments both in science and in strategy, and the following trends are now here to stay:

Key Trend 1: A future of weight-management

Key Trend 2 Mood Food - brain health, mood and performance to be the next big trend

Key Trend 3: Healthy snacking - pigs might fly as the boundaries between health, convenience and indulgence break down

Key Trend 4: Fruit: the future of functional foods

Key Trend 5: Digestive health still has far to run

Key Trend 6: Kids nutrition: Brains, bowels, naturalness and healthy snacking

Key Trend 7: We're all turning Japanese

Key Trend 8: Beauty from within - a marketing trend with many angles and wrinkles

Key Trend 9: The marketing power of "naturally healthy"

Key Trend 10: Functional foods and health - who really gets the benefits?

Ten Key Trends in Functional Foods 2007 is a practical tool, setting out the effect these key trends will have on company strategies.

Key point summary

1. Introduction: Ten Key Trends in Food, Nutrition & Health

Case Study 1: The upsurge of functional private label

2. The Ten Key Trends

Key Trend 1: A future of weight management

Case Study 2: Special K - a weight-management mega-brand in the making

Case Study 3: Enviga - calorie-burning by the gallon?

Key Trend 2: Mood Food - brain health, mood and performance to be the next big trend

Case Study 4: DHA DHA docosahexaenoic acid.
DHA,
n.pr See acid, docosahexaenoic.
 for soymilk's better brain point of difference

Case Study 5: High melatonin melatonin: see pineal gland.
melatonin

Hormone secreted by the pineal gland of most vertebrates. It appears to be important in regulating sleeping cycles; more is produced at night, and test subjects injected with it become sleepy.
 milks offer better sleep

Key Trend 3: Healthy snacking - pigs might fly as the boundaries between health convenience and indulgence break down

Case Study 6: Breakfast reinvention - Up & Go

Key Trend 4: Fruit: the future of functional foods

Case Study 7: Fruit Strategy - how to make a new superfruit

Key Trend 5: Digestive health still has far to run

Case Study 8: Plums reinvented as a healthy drink for good digestion - Key Trend 4 meets

Key Trend 6: Brains, bowels, naturalness and healthy snacking are the drivers in kids' nutrition

Key Trend 7: We're all turning Japanese

Key Trend 8: Beauty from within - a marketing trend with many angles and wrinkles

Key Trend 9: The marketing power of 'naturally healthy'

Key Trend 10: Functional foods and health - who really gets the benefits?

Boxes, Photographs, Charts & Tables

Boxes

1. STRATEGY - a cautionary tale A cautionary tale is a traditional story told in folklore, to warn its hearer of a danger.

There are three essential parts to a cautionary tale, though they can be introduced in a large variety of ways.
 from the decline and fall of a functional food market

2. Pom Wonderful POM Wonderful, LLC is a privately owned company and brand of pomegranate juice, advertised as one of the most powerful naturally-occurring antioxidants. It is sold in distinctive double bulb-shaped clear plastic bottles. Its taste has been described as similar to cranberry juice.  - a superfruit success story

3. Red Kiwi poised to make a healthy debut

4. Pro or Pre?

5. Sunsweet Growers Sunsweet Growers Incorporated is an agricultural marketing cooperative founded in 1917 as the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association. Sunsweet is headquartered in Yuba City, California, USA where, as of 2007, the company operated the largest dried fruit plant in  at-a-glance

6. Healthy skin from healthy oils

7. The weight-management-beauty link

8. The renaissance of a traditional food through natural nutrition

9. The renaissance of chocolate - natural health with natural indulgence

Photographs

1. Kesko's Pirkka

2. Vitaalbrood ProFit

3. Tesco's cholesterol-lowering range

4. Benecol's cholesterol-lowering daily-dose bottles

5. Coca-Cola's Minute Maid Minute Maid is a product line of beverages, usually associated with orange juice, but now extends to soft drinks of many kinds, including Hi-C.

Minute Maid was the first company to market orange juice concentrate, allowing it to be distributed nationwide and served
 Heart Wise orange juice

6. Yoplait's Healthy Heart yoghurt.

7. Skane Dairy's Maval yoghurt.

8. Fabuless promotional material

9. Danone's Shape Lasting Satisfaction range

10. Coca-Cola's Enviga

11. Valio Dairy's Profeel milk

12. Nestle's Sveltesse

13. Promotional material for CAPSA's NaturLinea yoghurts, milk and juice

14. Rachel's Organic Yogurt Diet book

15. Advertisement for Kellogg's Special K "2-week challenge"

16. Coca-Cola's Enviga

17. A window from Enviga's website

18. Danone's Danino

19. Ezaki Glico's Mental Balance Chocolate GABA GABA ?.

GABA
abbr.
gamma-aminobutyric acid


GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
A neurotransmitter that slows down the activity of nerve cells in the brain.
 

20. A window from Lipton L-theanine's website

21. Danone's Zen

22. Odwalla Soymilk soy·milk  
n.
A milk substitute made from soybeans, often supplemented with vitamins.

Noun 1. soymilk - a milk substitute containing soybean flour and water; used in some infant formulas and in making tofu
 with Omega-3 DHA.

23. Cricketer Farm's Night Time Milk

24. PepsiCo's Flat Earth veggie and fruit crisps

25. A window from Whitworths' website

26. Unilever's Knorr Vie fruit and vegetable drinks

27. Sanitarium's Up & Go

28. Advertising for Unilever's Knorr Vie

29. Naked juice with Omega-3s

30. Hero's Fruit2Day

31. Pom Wonderful pomegranate pomegranate (pŏm`grănĭt, pŏm`ə–), handsome deciduous and somewhat thorny large shrub or small tree (Punica granatum  drink

32. Brad Oberwager - CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  and president of Sundia Corporation

33. Sundia Watermelon watermelon, plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of the family Curcurbitaceae (gourd family) native to Africa and introduced to America by Africans transported as slaves. Watermelons are now extensively cultivated in the United States and are popular also in S Russia.  juice range

34. Yakult and Danone's Activia

35. Nestle's Shredded Wheat package

36. Sunsweet's PlumSmart plum juice

37. Sunsweet's PlumSmart plum juice

38. Bellamy's Organic Farms Apple Snacks

39. Danone's Danino

40. Junior Horlick's packaging

41. Organix Brand's Goodies bars

42. Kiviks Musteri's Fruktstund

43. A window from Junior Horlick's website

44. Yakult Honsha's Yakult daily-dose bottle.

45. Birds Eye's Edamame Edamame is a preparation of immature soybeans in the pod commonly found in China and Japan. The pods are boiled in water together with condiments such as salt, and served whole.  and a Japanese original

46. Imparlat's Kaiku Aloe Vera aloe vera
n.
1. A species of aloe (Aloe vera) native to the Mediterranean region.

2. The mucilaginous juice or gel obtained from the leaves of this plant, used in pharmaceutical preparations for its soothing and healing
 yoghurt

47. A window from Nestle Contrex's website

48. A selection of Japanese CoQ10 products

49. Quaker Oats' porridge oats oats, cereal plants of the genus Avena of the family Gramineae (grass family). Most species are annuals of moist temperate regions. The early history of oats is obscure, but domestication is considered to be recent compared to that of the other  package

50. A window from 7-Up's website

51. Stonyfield Farm's Shift energy drink

52. Naked juice with Omega-3s

53. Bellamy's Organic Farms Apple Snacks

54. Nairn's Oat Cakes package

55. Hershey's "flavanol antioxidants Antioxidants
Substances that reduce the damage of the highly reactive free radicals that are the byproducts of the cells.

Mentioned in: Aging, Nutritional Supplements

antioxidants,
n.
" symbol

Tables

1. Consumers' health concerns worldwide

2. Spanish consumers' health concerns

Charts

1. Total sales of FOSHU-approved products in Japan, 2003

2. Prevalence of obesity by economic status, EU

Companies and Brands Mentioned Include:

* Tesco

* Benecol

* Coca-Cola

* Yoplait

* Danone

* Nestle

* Unilever

* Yakult

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