PMG Fresh Trends
Organic tomatoes brought in more than $290.5 million in 2020, and marketers moved more than $75.4 million pounds of the vegetable, according to IRI. And organic tomato purchases are clearly driven by age.
The Packer’s 2022 Fresh Trends report finds that 46% of shoppers say they seek out companies that are “environmentally aware.”
Potatoes ranked only behind bananas among fresh produce items most frequently purchased, according to The Packer’s 2022 Fresh Trends survey.
The Leamington, Ontario-based company has launched Solara melons, what it says are the fresh produce industry’s first commercial greenhouse-grown melons.
Avocados have been called green “gold” for a reason. Marketers, fueled mainly by surging imports, have grown the fruit’s retail per capita availability from 4.8 pounds in 2011 to 7.4 pounds in 2019, the USDA says.
The USDA reports retail per capita availability of fresh pears has declined slightly in the past decade.
The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023 survey found that 58% of respondents said they purchased tomatoes in the past year.
The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023 indicated that 59% of all consumers said they purchased onions in the past year.
The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023 showed 18% of all consumers polled said they bought nectarines in the past year.
The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023 survey indicated that 46% of all consumers purchased oranges last year.
The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023 found that 43% of all consumers reported purchases of bell peppers in the previous year.
The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023 survey showed that 17% of all consumers reported specialty pepper purchases in the past year.
The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023 found that 38% of consumers indicated they purchased fresh pineapple last year.
The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023 research indicated that 62% of consumers said they purchased potatoes in the past year.
The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023 survey found that 24% of consumers reported raspberry purchases in the past year.
The versatile potato is one fresh produce commodity that consumers turn to when they are faced with grocery price inflation, The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2024 survey reveals.
Apples are an organic powerhouse in the fresh produce department. Learn why in this story from The Packer’s Organic Fresh Trends 2024.
Consumers appreciate the economy of bulk produce, but packaged produce also has strong consumer appeal, according to The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2024 survey.
There’s a reason why dangling a carrot in front of a horse is a classic motivation tool.
Shoppers need to know how to compare pepper spiciness. Use (even print out?!) this graph to help.
Consumer attitudes toward and preferences for produce packaging during the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the major points of discussion since the coronavirus crisis began in March 2020.
If your Brussels sprouts aren’t smashing sales, the cruciferous vegetable that looks like a miniature cabbage may still be evoking whiffs of dirty wet socks. Use TikTok trends to change that: smash it.
The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023 reported that 28% of consumers said they purchased limes in the previous year.
Fueled by rising imports, retail per capita availability for fresh asparagus has grown in recent years, from 1.26 pounds in 2011 to 1.60 pounds in 2019.
The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023 survey found that 1 in 4 consumers (25%) said they purchased blackberries in the past year.
The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023 survey showed 39% of consumers indicated fresh lemon purchases in the past year.
The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023 survey showed 33% of consumers said they purchased mushrooms in the past year.
Thirty-seven percent of consumers polled in The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023 survey said they purchased fresh celery in the past year.
Carrots have a big place at America’s kitchen table, and The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023 survey reinforces that assertion.
Twenty-nine percent of all consumers said they purchased cherries in the past year, according to The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2023.