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Snacking 2026: Balancing Purpose and Pleasure
Snacking isn’t merely a way to describe half of all eating occasions—it has become a flexible tool consumers use to navigate daily life. The latest…
The Practical Future of Food Tech
In recent years, the digital food landscape has focused largely on novelty and inspiration: helping consumers discover new products, recipes and trends.…
Live Q&A: Inside the Digital Food Culture Gap
This webinar explored how consumers want technology to fit into their everyday food experiences, with experts breaking down key behaviors, expectations, and…
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"A New Landscape of Eating: 2022 Eating Occasions" Report Highlights
The landscape of eating has fundamentally changed. And while we cannot predict the future, every indication thus far is that we, as a society, are not…
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A supplement to “Health & Wellness 2023: The Great Wellness Reset”, “Pets and Health” explores both the impact pets have on their owners’…
Learn moreFree Download: A Look Inside A New Landscape of Eating
Our free download highlights findings from our latest report A New Landscape of Eating: 2022 Eating Occasions Report which explores U.S. adult eating behaviors…
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Leveraging The Hartman Group’s proprietary Eating Occasions Compass Database, this special report highlights findings from A New Landscape of Eating:…
Learn moreIs technology making us lazy and dumb?
Some consumers think it could be “You know, everything is so convenient and readily available with the touch of a button or voice-activated.…
Learn moreSeparating the walk from the talk and identifying opportunities along the way!
Have you ever wondered what separates the real health and wellness enthusiasts from those who are simply good at talking the talk? We don’t. Not…
Learn more"Food & Technology 2023" Report Highlights
In this 20-minute webinar, our CEO Laurie Demeritt will share key data and insights from our report, "Food & Technology 2023.""Food & Technology…
Learn moreA Sustainable Food System Might Be The Prize in a Tug-of-War Between Science and Nature
Food culture of the 1990s through the 2010s focused on a future that would resurrect idealized, if not imagined, notions of our agrarian past (e.g., pastoral…
Learn moreAs Consumers tighten their belts…will Health and Wellness products get the squeeze?
Consumers, even those in lower-income households, have long told Hartman Group researchers that health and wellness priorities are important, if not sacred.…
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