Our food and its packaging today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

Today
Plant-based food: Animal products become plant-based

Plant-Based Food Plant-based animal substitutes, especially for meat, are booming. At the latest after the […]

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Regional Food: Food from the region

Regional Food The formula “regional is the new organic” has long since arrived in the […]

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Zero Waste: Surplus food as a business model

Zero Food Waste Food waste is one of the biggest societal challenges of the 21st […]

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Circular Food: Food Recycling and Upcycling

Circular Food In addition to the redistribution of food surpluses and leftovers, the topic of […]

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Fast Good: Fast Food Becomes Healthier

Fast Good Fast Good describes the new pace of quality in out-of-home catering, as fast […]

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Meet Food: More proximity to the product

Meet Food More and more people want to perceive food sensually. The evolution of consumers […]

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Snackification: Food on the go

Snackification The megatrends of individualization, connectivity and, above all, mobility and new work have led […]

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Functional Food: Eating for Self-Optimization

Functional Food You are what you eat! The functional food trend makes this statement its […]

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Healthy Hedonism: indulge healthily

Healthy Hedonism With more and more food innovations and increasing pressure for suppliers in the […]

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Flexitarianism: meat consumption with more responsibility

Flexitarianism In Germany and in many neighboring European countries, we have reached “peak meat,” which […]

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Fermentation: the rediscovery of an ancient cultural technique

Fermentation Not everything needs to be redone if it worked really well before. What was […]

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Super plant hemp: from drug to miracle raw material

Super plant hemp Alternative dietary methods are enjoying tremendous growth in popularity. The health megatrend […]

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Transparency: More transparency for more appreciation

Transparency Communities, collaborations and cooperations will become more and more important in the future thanks […]

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Tomorrow
Clean Meat: Meat & Fish from the Lab

Clean Meat Artificial meat from the laboratory will fundamentally revolutionize meat consumption. Technological development makes […]

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Climatarianism: Food for the climate

Climatarianism It is true that the idea of a dietary (re)form for the purpose of […]

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Precision Fermentation: Milk proteins through fermentation

Precision Fermentation After various companies have managed to crack the “meat code” plant-based and now […]

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Plant-based Food 2.0: Eggs without chickens

Plant-Based Food 2.0 The question of which came first – chicken or egg – will […]

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Brutal-Local: Regional food on the next level

Brutal Local The regional-food trend jumps to the next evolutionary stage – from regional to […]

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Curated Food: Pre-selection instead of overflow

Curated Food As the abundance and variety of food products in our supermarkets and online […]

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Reverse engineering food: molecular replication of foodstuffs

Reverse Engineering Food This is not about the world of molecular cuisine, which already had […]

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Local Exotics: Culinary delights between home and faraway places

Local Exotics The lockdowns in the wake of the Corona pandemic have not only further […]

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Food Pairing: Taste from the drawing board

Food Pairing The fact that cheese and wine go wonderfully together has become something of […]

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Algae: Superfood from the sea

Algae Today, we already know algae as a shell and accessory for sushi or in […]

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Fusion Food: Global & regional go hand in hand

Fusion Food The regional food trend is undoubtedly strong and will continue to gain strength, […]

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Aquaculture: seafood from the pool

Aquaculture What can responsible fish consumption look like to combat overfishing? Closed aquaculture, where animals […]

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Future
3D printed food: Food from the printer

3D Printed Food From “to go” to “to print”: The snack culture from the 3D […]

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Precision Food: Hyper-personalized nutrition based on DNA

Precision Food The megatrend of individualization is permanently changing our diet from “one-food-fits-all” mass consumption, […]

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Ento Food: Insect breakthrough

Ento Food Almost one-third of the world’s people eat insects. In Western culture, the sight […]

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Real Omnivores: Potential futures become a future

Real Omnivores Real omnivores are the eaters of the future. Tech-savvy and much more open-minded […]

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No-Food-Food: Eating becomes pure nutrient intake

No-Food-Food What we already know from Silicon Valley or the spaceship could become the culinary […]

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CO2 food: food from the air

CO2 food Many current food trends can be clustered under the motto “sustainability,” as the […]

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Today
Ghost Kitchens: Kitchens without a restaurant

Ghost Kitchens In the Corona Crisis, power relationships between delivery services and restaurants are being […]

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Convenience Cooking: Meal kits for convenient cooking enjoyment

Convenience Cooking From Michelin-starred restaurants to young fresh-food startups to established cookbox providers, meal kits, […]

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Work-food balance: upgrade for communal catering

Work-food balance Working time is life time. And that is precisely why the corporate dining […]

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Home Kitchen: The kitchen as the center of the home

Home Kitchen Since the turn of the millennium, the kitchen has acquired more and more […]

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Infinite Food: Food is everywhere

Infinite Food “Eating is the new pop,” wrote Hanni Rützler a few years ago in […]

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DIY Food: Do-it-yourself changes production and consumption

DIY Food For a long time, do-it-yourself was seen as a niche counter-trend or reaction […]

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Kitchen Apps: Intelligent cooking, stocking and ordering

Kitchen Apps Today, learning algorithms from apps already support us in the kitchen when cooking […]

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Conscious Kitchen: Kitchen becomes mindful

Conscious Kitchen Influenced by the megatrends of sustainability and health, the kitchen is gaining a […]

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Tomorrow
The illuminated plate (MILK. soulplate)

Soon, kitchens and restaurants could find enlightenment via novel plates. The first illuminated plate for home and catering is called “soulplate” and not only makes our food shine beautifully, but also teaches us to be mindful of the precious food in front of us.

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Smartness Everywhere: The kitchen gets smart

Smartness Everywhere KitchenAid was just the beginning. Within the next few years, kitchens will become […]

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Impact Chefs: Women Chefs as Drivers of Change in the Socio-Ecological Transformation.

Impact Chefs For some time now, the restaurant industry can be seen as a trend […]

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Vegourmets: Vegetable menu becomes gastronomic standard

Vegourmets The popularity of vegetarian and vegan diets has continued to grow in the pandemic […]

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Gastro Sentiments: AI turns restaurants into trend scouts and setters

Gastro Sentiments Programmers call sentiments information with an emotional statement, i.e. texts with emojis, certain […]

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Virtual Reality Eating: Using Virtuality to Achieve the Ultimate Experience

Virtual Reality Eating Restaurants are increasingly permeated by digital technologies. And not only in the […]

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Future
Robot Kitchen: Full automation of the kitchen

Robot Kitchen A balanced diet will continue to play a major role in the future, […]

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Big Retro: Craft & Tradition Experience a Revival

Big Retro As kitchens at home and in restaurants become increasingly digital and smarter, a […]

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No-Kitchen-Living: Kitchens disappear from homes & offices

No-Kitchen-Living The snackification trend resulting from increasingly mobile lifestyles is leading to homes and offices […]

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Today
E-food: online food trade booming

E-Food In the wake of the Corona crisis, the megatrend of connectivity really took hold […]

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#foodporn: nutrition goes viral

#foodporn Social media have become part of everyday culture, especially among younger generations, and the […]

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Instant delivery services on wheels: Let’s go shopping quickly

Instant delivery services on wheels Turning a crisis into a virtue – or even into […]

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Urban Gardening: Self-sufficiency in the City

Urban Gardening Driven by a young generation of city dwellers who are increasingly seeking a […]

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Automation in the countryside: regional products directly from the producer

Automation in the countryside The trend toward more regional food continues. Particularly in times of […]

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Crowdfarming: For more proximity between producer and consumer

Crowdfarming Crowdfarming (translated as “swarm farming”) wants one thing above all: to value food more […]

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Fully automated mini market: 24/7 self-service shopping

Fully automatic mini market People’s changing consumption, lifestyle and working habits are putting stationary retail […]

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Political Food: Food becomes (socially) political

Political Food In terms of value orientation in society, the Corona pandemic has only reinforced […]

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Water-Energy-Food: Symbiotic Systems of Transformation

Water-Energy-Food The increasing complexity of the social and economic system with further increasing interdependencies of […]

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Tomorrow
Vertical Farming: Farming in a high-rise building

Vertical Farming More than half of the world’s population already lives in cities, and according […]

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Self-Driving Food: Autonomous Delivery by Robot

Self-Driving Food More and more people order food and dishes online and then have them […]

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Next Level Transparency: Transparent Value Chains Thanks to Blockchain

Next Level Transparency Thanks to modern technology and increasingly powerful consumers, we are entering a […]

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Zero Food Waste Society: Intelligently waste-free

Zero Food Waste Society If global food waste were a state, it would be the […]

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Extended Reality Shopping: Retail and Shopping Are Going Digital

Extended Reality Shopping Digitization is not stopping at retail either – on the contrary: extended […]

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Between craft & industry: digitization blurs the boundaries of food production

Between craft & industry In the past, the structures were somehow clearer: On the one […]

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Gene-edited food: Food becomes more climate resilient

Gene-edited Food Climate change and associated extreme weather events and changes in temperature and precipitation […]

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Future
Robot Farmers: Autonomous food production

Robot Farmers In view of a growing world population and the associated increase in food […]

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Food production under water: algae and sea

Food production under water Seas, rivers, lakes and ponds open up new culinary perspectives. In […]

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Telemedicine in the barn: health tracking for animals

Telemedicine in the stable According to Regensburg-based startup Futurofarming, 80 percent of calves become sick […]

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Predictive food analytics: When machines start to taste

Predictive Food Analytics The new or further development of food is one of the great […]

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Personal Food Factories: Food Production for the Individual

Personal Food Factories The megatrend of individualization means that our diets are becoming increasingly varied […]

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Food Download: Teleportation replaces delivery service

Food Download 3D printing technology, already the first gadget to give techies and nerds warm […]

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Meta Food: The food experience becomes virtual

Meta Food Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg recently announced his plan to hire 10,000 people in Europe […]

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Next-Level Greenhouse: Agriculture of the Future

Next Level Greenhouse Industrial agriculture has run into ecological and social dead ends here and […]

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Today
Material reduction for plastic packaging

As little plastic as possible – with as much product protection as necessary. The industry […]

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Mushroom based material packaging

Grown into shape: the shipping packaging of the future. It’s not just since the pandemic […]

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Recyclability due to mono-plastic

Packaging 96% recyclable*. Image sources: Rügenwalder Mühle *The packaging shown consists almost exclusively of polypropylene […]

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Barrier papers as a plastic substitute

Paperization. Two major influencing factors have led to plastic packaging being increasingly replaced by cellulose-based […]

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Paper from grass

Sustainable from alternative natural fibers. Image source: Creapaper Grass papers such as those from GRASPAP® […]

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Minimal use of plastic due to hybrids

The best of both worlds: Cardboard hybrids for plastic reduction. Image source: SEALPAC Hybrid packaging, […]

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Cellulose packaging film

Sustainability inside and out. Image source: The Nu Company The Nu Company is a start-up […]

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The paper bag for the freezer

Recyclable Frozen paper bags. Image source: FRoSTA The Special Packaging Award of the German Sustainability […]

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Edible protective spray for food

Spray instead of packaging California-based startup Apeel Sciences developed an edible protective spray for fruits […]

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Reusable systems for to-go food

Reusable take-away packaging in the catering industry. Reusable deposit systems such as those from REBOWL […]

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Tomorrow
Design for Recycling

Finally, true closed-loop systems for plastic food packaging. We expect EU approval for post-consumer recycled […]

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Holy Grail 2.0

Digital watermarks for effective recycling of plastic packaging. We have been closely following this trend […]

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Bio-plastics become truly compostable

Problem biodegraded. Will our current problems with the disposal of bio-based plastics soon be a […]

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The renaissance of the refill bag

Permanent packaging with re-fill offers. What never really caught on “yesterday” could become an important […]

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Recycled paper beverage bottle

Paper Bottle. Image source: Paboco The “Paper Bottle” drinks bottle from Paboco is made from […]

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New cellulose-based alternatives to plastic

Packaging made from organic waste. Image source: MakeGrowLab MakeGrowLab’s packaging made from woven biowaste consists […]

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Future
Return of the Milk Man 2.o

Loop Image source: TerraCycle As part of a project called Loop, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, […]

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The edible packaging

Nose to Tail Packaging. Image source: Lactips Lactips is an edible plastic made from milk […]

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The packaging that becomes active

Look who’s talking: the interactive packaging. Two developments will shape the packaging of tomorrow. On […]

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Holy Grail 4.0

The future of grocery shopping – a hybrid of analog and digital. The supermarket of […]

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LET US CREATE THE FUTURE TOGETHER

Discover new product ideas and packaging via our trend radar and actively shape the future: Let us transfer your future scenarios into your individual brand radar and create new products and packaging solutions based on them! How does it work?

With our Future Food Trend Radar, we want to illustrate the changing nature of nutrition in all its complexity and diversity and invite you to think about the future in an entertaining and inspiring way.

The focus is on the following topics food , kitchen , production and packaging and therefore what we eat, how and where we prepare and cook it, how and where we produce and transport the necessary food and how we package it.

With regard to the time horizon and the possible penetration of the individual trends into the social mainstream, we have differentiated between today (present and near future), tomorrow (2030-2040) and the day after tomorrow (2040-2050+) are distinguished.

Food trends show people’s feelings about life and their longings, which are always shaped by megatrends – the blockbusters of social change. Therefore, food trends can also be read as “food culture derivatives” of megatrends, thus they are also always answers or attempts of answers to problems we are confronted with in our daily eating routine. They are designed to help people navigate the complex everyday world of choice and decision-making constraints and satisfy needs in a more sustainable, healthier, convenient or affordable way.

However, it is also clear that food trends are not static phenomena in themselves, but continue to develop, differentiate, dynamize and strengthen in conjunction with similar trends or even bring contrary trends to a complete standstill. Unlike fads and hypes, food trends have a much longer half-life, usually at least five to ten years. This makes them pressure points for strategic realignments and considerations of their own future viability for all players involved in the food industry. But if all these considerations are not based on the phenomena of change behind them, the megatrends, it will be difficult to find effective and sustainable responses to food trends for your own company.