Summer trends - consumption analysis and statistics 2024 report

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Summer trend

Trend overview

  • Social conversations about Summer have by over the past year
  • restaurants offer Summer on their menus
  • The fastest rising consumer need for Summer is
  • The dominating diet for Summer is

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Trend performance of summer

Trend analysis over time and across social, menus and recipes

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Ingredients & flavors for summer

The top established ingredients and/or flavors related to summer that are experiencing positive growth

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Diets

The dietary references with summer over time

Most popular summer dishes

Most popular summer posts from restaurants

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Top ingredients and consumer claims

Top ingredients by popularity

Top claims shaping F&B trend

Summer Trends in 2024: Analysis and Insights for the Food Industry

Social conversations about Summer have surged by 78.63% over the past year, with 13.57% of restaurants featuring summer-related items on their menus. Snack-based options are driving the fastest rising consumer need, while veganism continues to dominate as the primary diet associated with summer trends, showcasing the shift towards plant-based, seasonal offerings.

Snackable Summer: A Consumer Favorite

As summer snacks grow in popularity, brands have a prime opportunity to innovate with refreshing, vegan-friendly products that cater to the demand for quick, healthy, and seasonal options.

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Adaptable consumer messaging that converts

“Where Tastewise is brilliant and AI is, we can now track that trend. That's where AI is, it gives us that flexibility to actually change the messaging on the right time when consumers want it.”

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Botanical, Flavours & Innovation Director, Tata Consumer Products
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Customer centricity from vision to execution

“Tastewise gives me some actual data to say yes, what we think we’re seeing is on the right track, there’s something here. It also allows us to go a level deeper to understand what might be driving those trends”

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Natalie Taake
Senior Innovation Manager, Kroger
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Scalable foodservice strategies that deliver

“The partnership between Violife and Tastewise has been a resounding success, significantly boosting the ability to run a large-scale lead generation campaign for our foodservice business.”

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Rachel Waynberg
Senior Manager, Marketing, Foodservice
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End to end process and project elevation

“Tastewise has been really instrumental in being able to have a greater impact across all the different projects.”

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Amanda Hershon
Test Kitchen Specialist, Campbell Soup Company
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Pioneering trends before they hit mainstream

“The AI tool on Tastewise has really made us more efficient and faster in identifying trends. I really enjoy the automatically-generated reports that we can do, to having ingredient information. So we're using it and we'll definitely use it more as we get used to having that tool.”

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Senior Marketing Specialist, Bell

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