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27Jan 2020 by admin

Top 7 Foods to Avoid When On a Weight Loss Program

The key to losing weight is to have a healthy diet because the food you eat greatly affects your weight. Denying yourself certain foods, especially the ones you like to eat will eventually make you binge eat and gain more weight. When trying to lose you need to stay away from food with high-calorie content. The number of calories though is not the only factor to consider. Knowing which food to eat, reduce, or avoid can help you reach and maintain your ideal weight. Some restaurants, such as Michelangelo of Riverhead, a pizza Riverhead in New York, are good examples of this. Here are the top foods to avoid for a successful weight loss program. Frozen Meals Natural preservatives such as sodium are added to frozen meals for longer shelf life.…

30Sep 2019 by admin

Essential Tips to Manage Travel Anxiety

Essential Tips to Manage Travel Anxiety

Most of the times while arranging for travel to a new destination, it brings a lot of thoughts and fears that lead to anxiety. In as much as traveling is an exciting hobby, time to reflect on the preceding year's activities, fear of the unknown also come hitting hard in our minds. However, when you learn to manage such kind of anxiety, then you make your vacation not only exciting but promising and welcoming for another holiday. Below are some tips to help one to manage such anxiety. Plan ahead of time. As the saying goes, that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail, even when taking a vacation away from home needs to be prepared in advance. At times you may wonder who will take care of…

26Sep 2019 by admin

Best Pizza Places in New York

Best Pizza Places in New York

New York is considered as one of the states that has the best pizza all over the world. It has a wide range of restaurants where one can get the pizza of their own taste. Below are some reviews of the best places and the reasons why they are considered good. Any time when in New York, you can consider having a bite. East Village Pizza. The restaurant was started by two brothers, Mel, and Frank in 1997. It started from a small lunch den to the big thing it is today, and it's being considered as the cornerstone of New York City’s East Village. Formation: When Mel and Fran had a walk in New York, they realized that no single restaurant offered Pizza delicacies. With the experience, Frank had…

Global Opportunities in Three Megatrends
Products and brands aligned with sustainability, value, and wellness have potential in both developed and developing countries, according to Quantifying Megatrends, a webinar held on April 8 by global market research firm Euromonitor International. Euromonitor tracked current and potential consumer spending to help companies understand which trends to focus on, how they differ by geography, which […]
Cold Brew, Plant-Based, Sparkling Spur Sluggish RTD Coffee, Tea Sales
Stay-at-home mandates impeded the $1.1 billion specialty, shelf-stable, ready-to-drink coffee and tea category in 2020 as usage occasions shrunk without consumers commuting to offices or schools daily. According to the Specialty Food Association’s State of the Specialty Food Industry research, 2020-2021 edition, the category’s growth was a healthy 8.4 percent between 2015 and 2019. But […]
Meijer Reveals Pandemic Shopping Trends
Easy meal choices and bulk purchases were among the top shopping trends observed by Meijer a year into the pandemic. As consumers ate more at home, they turned to grab-and-go options like rotisserie chicken or premade meals to help feed their families. In addition, customers learned to stock up on produce like potatoes, tomatoes, apples, […]
Category Spotlight: Customizing with Condiments
The necessity of at-home cooking over the past year reinvigorated center store grocery, and shelf-stable condiments, dressings, and marinades benefitted as tools for livening up daily meals. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks prepared largely at home over the past 13 months have had consumers reaching for products to help change up recipes and avoid boredom. […]
Meat Sales Increase Due to Pandemic
Meat grocery sales increased by 20 percent from 2019 to 2020, according to FMI and the Meat Institute Foundation’s Power of Meat report. Nearly all American households (98.4 percent) purchased meat in 2020, and 43 percent said they buy more meat now than before the pandemic due to preparing more meals at home. "Shoppers are […]
Buyers' Picks: Trendy Teas
As consumers continue to spend most of their time at home and seek comforting foods and beverages, they are game to try new takes on their favorite teas or get out of their comfort zone with experimental flavors. Specialty Food asked a trio of retail buyers to share their picks for trendy teas. Summer Thompson, […]
RTD Coffee With CBD Experiences High
Sales of shelf-stable ready-to-drink coffee with CBD were up 154,000 percent in January 2021, compared to the prior year in conventional and natural brick-and-mortar stores, according to data from Chicago-based SPINS. It attributes the skyrocketing growth to the introduction of new products such as CBD-infused cold brews and consumer demand for food and beverages with […]
E-commerce Platform for Asian Products Offers Curated Assortment
A new online retail store focusing on Asian grocery items has launched this month with an eclectic assortment and a promotional tie-in to several of its women-owned vendors. Umamicart, based in New York, was itself co-founded by a woman of Asian ancestry, Andrea Xu, who was born and raised in in Spain by her Chinese […]
Culinary Students Spot Trends at Specialty Food Live!
The Specialty Food Association's Specialty Food Live! virtually welcomed 16 culinary arts students and their instructor from West Ashley High School. The teens represented the Gen Z point of view as members of a special SFA Trendspotter Panel. The school is affiliated with Bread + Butter, a Charleston, South Carolina, nonprofit dedicated to connecting Charleston’s […]
Foodservice in Crisis: How the Channel Can Recover
Off-premise dining services such as take-out, meal kits, heat-and-eat solutions, and virtual events are helping pave the road to recovery. The nation’s vibrant foodservice landscape has been forever changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The restaurant industry, the nation’s second-largest private employer, has been among the most severely impacted of all U.S. business segments, with sales […]