Flexitarian fix: Why focusing on vegan’s won’t drive APAC’s plan-based growth

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Drink your biotics: Bright colours and visual appeal crucial to deliver healthier beverages to children – Tummy Buddies
16 okt· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
Australia’s Tummy Buddies believes that healthier product innovation for children needs to focus on bright colours and visual appeal in order to secure that crucial first purchase.
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In focus: Can Asia’s AI-powered productivity drink find a niche in the market?
14 aug· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
Singapore-based Flojo believes that it has found a sweet spot in Asia's beverage market with an AI-powered ‘productivity drink’ targeting consumers who regularly use a lot of brain power.
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Singapore cultivated seafood firm Umami Bioworks believes that strategic mergers are crucial to overcome doubts about the sector and achieve buy-in from major brands which can help the category scale-up.
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Flexitarian fix: Why focusing on vegan’s won’t drive APAC’s plan-based growth
13 mar· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
Focusing on flexitarians and doubling down on the perceived health benefits of consuming less meat and dairy is the best way for APAC’s sluggish plant-based sector to secure significant growth.
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Quality over quantity: Why APAC tea sector needs to focus on functional innovation to drive growth
21 feb· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
The APAC tea sector need to focus on functionality and format innovation and not just increasing blend varieties if it is to enjoy sustained growth, according to Sri Lanka and Europe-based tea specialist English Tea Shop.
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Dry and high: Ambient plant-based innovation the way to go for clean label products to become more mainstream
19 feb· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
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Dry and high: Ambient plant-based innovation the way to go for clean label products to become more mainstream
6 dec 2023· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
Singapore-based plant-based products firm Thoughtful Food believes that the sector needs to look more closely at dry and ambient innovation as a key driver, particularly for brands seeking to solve ultra-processing challenges or go more clean label.
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‘Super cheap’: Affordability trumps protein and sustainability as main driving factor for insect-based foods in APAC
18 okt 2023· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
Affordability is emerging as the main driving factor for insect-based foods in the APAC region, possibly even more significant than its often-lauded protein or sustainability factors.
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Lessons learned: How can APAC cultivated meat sector avoid past alt protein ‘pitfalls’?
13 sep 2023· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
The cultivated meat industry in APAC needs to focus on localisation and realistic pricing strategies to avoid repeating past alternative protein ‘pitfalls’, says pioneer Aleph Farms.
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Tea with a twist: Curated Culture eyes APAC ‘sports and wellness’ space with probiotic tea products
16 aug 2023· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
Singapore-based Curated Culture has big plans to enter the ‘sports and wellness’ space in the APAC region with its probiotic tea products, which the firm has stressed is ‘not kombucha’.
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Euphoric functionality: How better-for-you beverage trends are starting to converge across APAC and US markets
21 jun 2023· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
Better-for-you beverage trends and ingredients are starting to see a convergence between markets in the Asia Pacific and United States as comsumer awareness grows, according to energy tea brand YATE.
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Overcoming kids' veggie aversion: Taste and health the key combo to drive uptake of healthy snacks and improve diets
17 maj 2023· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
Children are the ‘toughest food critics’ meaning that healthy snack firms have to pay equal attention to taste and nutrition if they are going to attract mass appeal and help improve the diets of young people.
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Vitality for the elderly: How plant-based and natural can clean-up in the burgeoning active ageing space
22 mar 2023· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
Singaporean plant-based firm Vitality Foods is targeting the still-active seniors demographic in APAC with its all-natural, clean label products, believing it has found a gap in the industry that is as-yet underserved and full of unmet needs.
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Tradition with a twist: How Philippines’ plant-based pioneers are infusing health and localisation to stand out
22 feb 2023· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
Plant-based brands in South East Asia need to step up their game by integrating unique health and localisation features to stand out in the increasingly crowded market, according to a Philippines brand blazing a trail in the sector.
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Innocent innovation: How better-for-you confectionery is shifting candies out of the ‘guilty’ indulgence space
25 jan 2023· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
The rise of new ingredients and innovations in the better-for-you confectionery space is shifting candies and other sweet treats into a guilt-free indulgence space, and has to the potential to progress further into the functional foods realm.
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Cleaning up snack foods: Big brand interest in cleaner and healthier options paving path for leaf protein sector
16 nov 2022· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
The interest in cleaner and better-for-you snacks shown by big food and beverage brands, including Mondelez, Nestle and Vitasoy, is paving the way for a new specialised area of plant-based proteins to enter the market, namely the RuBisCo leaf protein.
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Hitting the sweet spot: How sugar-replacement start-up will maintain brand focus after conglomerate merger
26 okt 2022· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
Ensuring that brand focus is maintained after joining a larger company is crucial to sustain and boost growth, according to sugar replacement start-up Swiftlet which has become part of Vietnamese conglomerate Senix Health Group.
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AI augmentation: Three key trends driving the need for new tech in traditional commodities
21 sep 2022· Food & Beverage Trailblazers
Increased consumer demand for premiumisation and alternative protein products, as well as inflation-driven price hikes, are driving the need for technology such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) in traditional ‘commodities’ that have so far not been exposed to such advances.
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Drink your biotics: Bright colours and visual appeal crucial to deliver healthier beverages to children – Tummy Buddies

In focus: Can Asia’s AI-powered productivity drink find a niche in the market?

‘Not all protein is made the same’: Mamame touts nutritional benefits of black-eyed beans to boost healthy snacking

Fat for fitness: Smaller packs and keto options driving nut butter popularity in Asia

‘Plugging the gaps’: Market consolidation in cultivated protein sector vital to overcome ‘disillusionment’

Quality over quantity: Why APAC tea sector needs to focus on functional innovation to drive growth

Dry and high: Ambient plant-based innovation the way to go for clean label products to become more mainstream

Dry and high: Ambient plant-based innovation the way to go for clean label products to become more mainstream

‘Super cheap’: Affordability trumps protein and sustainability as main driving factor for insect-based foods in APAC

Lessons learned: How can APAC cultivated meat sector avoid past alt protein ‘pitfalls’?

Tea with a twist: Curated Culture eyes APAC ‘sports and wellness’ space with probiotic tea products

Euphoric functionality: How better-for-you beverage trends are starting to converge across APAC and US markets

Overcoming kids' veggie aversion: Taste and health the key combo to drive uptake of healthy snacks and improve diets

Vitality for the elderly: How plant-based and natural can clean-up in the burgeoning active ageing space

Tradition with a twist: How Philippines’ plant-based pioneers are infusing health and localisation to stand out

Innocent innovation: How better-for-you confectionery is shifting candies out of the ‘guilty’ indulgence space

Cleaning up snack foods: Big brand interest in cleaner and healthier options paving path for leaf protein sector

Hitting the sweet spot: How sugar-replacement start-up will maintain brand focus after conglomerate merger

AI augmentation: Three key trends driving the need for new tech in traditional commodities