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What Are Nootropic Beverages? Nootropic beverages are drinks that contain either synthetic or natural compounds called nootropics, which aim to improve cognition, enhancing various functions including memory, creativity, motivation and overall mental aptitude. Some popular nootropic ingredients include caffeine and L-th…

It’s a fact that Collagen is a well know functional ingredient among women. Collagen is a major structural protein of our skin; it creates 75 percent of our skin. Although due to aging processes collagen amount is decreasing and this is the main reason of wrinkle appearance. After age 25 our bodies loose around 1.5% [&h…

What are BCAAs in Drinks? Nowadays, sports drinks category is becoming more interesting for beverage entrepreneurs and SMEs. There is a big opportunity for innovation. For the last 2 years we see an increasing interest of BCAA pre workout drinks (branched-chain amino acid) as the most interesting segment in sports drinks c…

Consumer packed goods companies like Unilever, P&G, Kellogg’s and Danone should watch their back as venture capital and tech-food startups are going to disrupt Food and Beverage industry once and for all. For the last few years we saw an unprecedented amounts of money pouring in to Food and Beverage business. Accord…

Total groceries sales in USA for 2013 was $600 billion worth. While online groceries market size was less than 1% which is less than $6 billion (Source Business Insider). Seems quite a small number. While in Europe at 2012 largest markets for online groceries divided accordingly: UK €7.1 billion, France €5 billion, Germ…

Functional ingredients might be divided in many fields; I will try to observe the most important ones. Sweeteners. As now it is becoming more popular having sugar reduced products or naturally sweetened, so Stevia is keeping the leading position. It is still a popular way to have a low calorie drink using it. Another up…

In past months it is becoming very trendy to develop drinks with an herbal base. People are trying to look into good old ideas from the new angle. For example in the field of iced teas new trend is naturally brewed teas, or trying to apply new or only in several areas of Europe known […]

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Each year everyone is trying to predict future trends. This time we will give you our view for the functional beverage trends in 2014. Last year our list looked like this “Top functional beverage trends for 2013”. You will notice that trends look very similar, however, new concepts were included in the list. One importa…

During this year I had lots of great opportunities to attend industry meetings, conferences and trade fairs. Each time I was making a list popular keywords during the event. I want to share it with you. Here are the most popular words among industry experts and professionals: Sustainability Obesity Health Nature Healthy…

It’s amazing how time flies.. It seems like just yesterday I wrote an article about Innovative functional beverage trends and concepts for 2013. What has changed during the year? What are the new trends in beverage industry? We want to share our insights with you. So what’s the next big thing? Where beverage industry is…