Top Five Trends in Cooking Ingredients and Meals

Cooking ingredients and meals faces a challenging outlook in 2026 and beyond between price pressures, consumer frustrations and trade conflicts. Growth opportunities remain, however, in areas like natural wellness, convenience that reflects modern lifestyles, and introducing consumers to diverse global flavours.

Euromonitor International's Top Five Trends in Cooking Ingredients and Meals global briefing provides a comprehensive overview of the Cooking Ingredients and Meals market, providing insight on sales and market potential, retail distribution and company and brand shares. Analysis identifies emerging geographies alongside growth opportunities in the most developed, highest value countries. It also offers strategic analysis of the key trends shaping the industry and consumer demand, such as health and wellness, sustainability, the evolution of eating occasions, in addition to ongoing considerations of convenience and value-for-money in the post-pandemic world. Insight into how these trends are shaping demand, helps to provide forecasts, clearly indicating how the market is expected to change.

Product coverage: Edible Oils, Meals and Soups, Sauces, Dips and Condiments, Sweet Spreads.

Data coverage: market sizes (historic and forecasts), company shares, brand shares and distribution data.

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• Get a detailed picture of the Cooking Ingredients and Meals market;
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• Understand the competitive environment, the market's major players and leading brands;
• Use five-year forecasts to assess how the market is predicted to develop.

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