With consumers increasingly avoiding carbs and sugar, it’s often claimed that the bakery category is under threat. But bakery has a major competitive advantage in health & wellness, which is its association with pleasure and indulgence. This versatile category is ideally positioned to tap into the most important consumer health interests to deliver new products – and better margins. In this 23-page briefing, we use real life examples to show how brands can negotiate the challenges and opportunities for bakery.

Consumer behaviour is diverse – and often seemingly contradictory. Foods that improve mental wellbeing and skin health, as well as reducing carbohydrates and increasing fibre intake are high on consumers' priority lists. The 74 charts in this report provide a detailed picture of consumers' beliefs and attitudes about food, diet and nutrition, based on interviews with more than 3,000 consumers in the US, UK, Australia, Spain and Brazil.

This report is designed to help you develop your own ideas about what your options are, and make well-informed decisions. For two decades, hundreds of companies have used the New Nutrition Business 10 Key Trends as a practical tool to help formulate strategy and innovation planning. Companies from Japan to America, from Australia and New Zealand to Finland and Sweden, from Germany to South Korea, all rely on this document. Companies find themselves returning to 10 Key Trends for guidance and expert opinion over and again.