Volume growth for the frozen food category turned positive for the first time in five years, up 1% for the 12 weeks ending March 10, according to a report by RBC Capital Markets, reported MarketWatch (April 8).
Conagra Brands’sales increased in the time frame by 21% for its Healthy Choice brand, 12% for Banquet and 13% for Marie Calender’s, while Pinnacle Foods saw its frozen products gain momentum thanks to its Birds Eye vegetable innovation. B&G Foods recently launched its third wave of Green Giant spiralized vegetables, which is already performing well for the company, according to analysts.
The biggest portion natural factors magnesiumof the frozen category is meals and appetizers, which makes up 35% of the group. The meals and appetizers segment had sales growth of 3%, the highest in five years, RBC found.
Frozen food’s growth compared to other packaged foods is accelerating as the consumer perception of the category changes. Consumers are now beginning to see freezing as a way to preserve food with fewer drawbacks, in contrast to the stigma frozen food had in the past decade with Millennials specifically, who wanted “whole foods” for themselves and their families, iron in ferrous fumaratestaying away from foods perceived to be “engineered.”
Lizzy Freier, managing editor of menu analysis at Technomics, says “frozen foods allow for convenient dining for so many who are strapped with budgets and having to cook forcitracal calcium citrate d3 petites tablets 200 ct their families, or even those who have to cook for themselves.”
RBC believes frozen food companies are catching up to aligsolgar calcium citrate with vitamin d3 240 tabletsn their frozen offerings to the attributes consumers demand. New “quick freeze” technology utilized by manufacturers helps frozen vegetables and frozen meals retain their nutrients and flavor for mbariatric vitamins calcium citrateonths; in contrast, fresh food has to travel and spoils fast.
For the full story, go to this week’s Food Institute Report.