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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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Going to the source: How foodservice is reshaping the modern meal
Summer has a way of changing our meal routines. A quick lunch between errands turns into a café stop. Dinner becomes takeout enjoyed on the back patio…
Learn moreAspiration vs. reality: How consumers balance competing snacking needs
Consumers have never been more intentional about what they want from their snacks. They aspire to eat more protein, fiber and functional ingredients. They…
Learn moreAI generates answers. Expertise creates confidence.
As your organization enters the annual planning cycle, you may be facing a familiar dilemma: needing to make strategic decisions with fewer resources and…
Learn moreThe new rules of claim credibility
For years, food companies treated claims like "organic," "natural," "clean" and "fresh" as points of differentiation. Today, those same attributes are…
Learn moreThe World of Health and Wellness Model: Time-tested, culture-validated
Chatter about AI is constant. (Almost) everything is being automated. New tools and technologies launch daily with the promise of solving all of your research…
Learn moreA deeper look at GLP-1 households
For the past two years, much of the conversation around GLP-1 medications has focused on the individual consumer. As appetite-suppressing drugs gain widespread…
Learn moreThe product claim paradigm: How to build trust in an environment of scrutiny
Food and beverage shoppers today face a paradox of choice. Packages are filled with signals intended to influence choice and help consumers quickly determine…
Learn moreThat "Irish" dish on your St. Patrick's Day table? It's complicated.
Every March, Americans gather around plates of corned beef and cabbage in celebration of Irish heritage. But there's a plot twist: most people in Ireland…
Learn moreA new lens on occasions strategy
For nearly 15 years, we’ve tracked the shifting rhythms of U.S. eating and drinking occasions with our proprietary Compass Database. We’ve seen…
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