HW Cooking Ingredients and Meals

The ready meals category is not as strong in Greece as in other Western countries due to the fact that Greek households still remain fairly traditional, with families eating primarily home cooked meals instead of buying packaged ready meals. This…

Overall volume sales of low fat cooking ingredients and meals continued to increase in France in 2022. Buoyant demand reflected rising consumer awareness of the health risks associated with being overweight or obese, a well-established trend that…

Nordic rapeseed oil is benefiting from being seen as a locally sourced superfood, boosting sales of domestic cooking oils. It is noteworthy that, as the global supply of sunflower oil suffered shortages in 2022, Finns increasingly turned to locally…

The COVID-19 pandemic saw consumers place an increased focus on their overall health and wellbeing. More and more consumers looked for ways to maintain good health, as they became increasingly concerned about COVID-19 infection and their ability to…

In an inflationary environment, unevenly rising prices inevitably affected the purchasing power of many Spanish consumers in 2022, hampering the growth of certain health and wellness cooking ingredients and meals. Despite the temporary downhill…

The pandemic and economic crisis hit Brazilians hard and created polarisation in consumption habits. Those in lower- income segments were forced to trade down and reduce costs by choosing regional brands or private label options, while consumers of…

Turkey has a long history of consumers enjoying dips, although these are often either made from scratch at home, or consumed in neighbourhood restaurants. However, recently there has been an increase in the availability of packaged dips, which are…

In recent years there was a rise of adulteration practices, in terms of replacing mustard oil with poor-quality oils in multi-source edible oils, with the intent to reduce costs. It was relatively easy to mix lower-quality oils, as they would not…

Japanese consumers have relatively high interest in functional products, and generally trust the claims on the packaging and in marketing activities. With the aim of assisting consumers to make more informed choices, a system of Foods with Function…

Demand for health and wellness cooking ingredients and meals remains under pressure during 2022 as inflation continued to accelerate. 2022 saw Argentina’s ongoing economic crisis and the plummeting exchange value of the Argentinean peso fuelling…