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Have it both ways: confectionery’s bright future with permission to indulge ingredients.
In the midst of the growing discussion about health and nutrition, we should never lose sight of the fact that pleasure and honest indulgence are what most consumers are looking for – even the most health-active people. Delivering on those needs is what fuels success in the confectionery category.
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Covid-19 crisis throws spotlight on diet and blood glucose control.
“We found that well-controlled blood glucose….was associated with markedly lower mortality.” This phrase, which appeared in a recently-published study1 of people who died with Covid-19, has been tweeted and re-posted thousands of times by medical practitioners and researchers.
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Author: Julian Mellentin
Julian Mellentin
Julian Mellentin is the founder of New Nutrition Business (www.new-nutrition.com ), a company dedicated to provide strategic and marketing insights to the global health and nutrition business since 1995.
New Nutrition Business has offices in London, Scotland, Portugal, USA and affiliates in Korea and Japan and is best-known for its annual 10 Key Trends in the Business of Food & Health.
Julian Mellentin is one of the few world experts in the business of food, nutrition and health. A brand marketer in his past life, Julian is co-author of The Functional Foods Revolution, the first-ever book on the business of functional foods (available in Japanese as well as English) and The Food & Health Marketing Handbook.
A graduate of Oxford University, he began his career as a marketer at Unilever and has since lived and worked in most countries in Europe, as well as in Hong Kong and New Zealand.