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Emerging trends in European food, diets and food industry

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Santeramo, F.G., Carlucci, D., De Devitiis, B., Seccia, A., Stasi, A., Viscecchia, R., Nardone, G.·2018·Food Research International

Abstract

Understanding how an adequate food security may be determined, how nutritional intakes evolve over time and are influenced by global dynamics are few of the questions scholars are trying to answer. In addition, a great interest is devoted to the changes in consumers' preferences and expectations as well as to the analysis of food innovations and their impact on the global market. We review the recent and emerging trends in food supply chains of selected sectors (fruits and vegetables, meat, and seafood), and deepen on emerging trends in the food industry. By presenting the evidence provided by the literature and emphasizing the unresolved research questions, we offer a critical view of future directions that should be followed by research agenda.

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This review examines emerging trends in European food supply chains—fruits and vegetables, meat, and seafood—and in food-industry innovations such as functional foods, novel foods, and nanotechnologies. It synthesizes literature on consumer preferences, labels and certifications, and barriers to innovation, while highlighting unresolved research questions.

Key findings

  • Global calorie availability rose from 2196 kcal/day in 1961 to 2870 kcal/day in 2011 (FAO, 2015). In the EU, only six of 28 member states met the WHO recommendation of 400 g/day of fruits and vegetables (Freshfel, 2014).
  • In Europe in 2010, fresh-cut fruit represented about 1% of total fruit volume sold; fresh-cut vegetables’ market share increased by 4% relative to total vegetables. Packaged salads were about 50% of total fresh-cut market volume, fresh-cut fruit 10%, and other categories 40% (Rabobank, 2010, 2011).
  • Global fish consumption grew from about 30 million tons in 1960 to over 130 million tons in 2012; aquaculture provides about half of global fish production, while EU aquaculture provides about 20% of total fish production. From 2000 to 2012, world aquaculture production more than doubled from 32.4 to 66.6 million tons, while EU aquaculture fell from 1.4 to 1.3 million tons; 65% of the EU fish and seafood market is supplied by imports.
  • The global functional foods market was valued at $168 billion for 2013 and forecast to exceed $300 billion for 2020. New product failure rates for novel foods are around 70–80%, and the majority of new functional foods marketed are withdrawn shortly after launch. Nanotechnology food applications remain mostly at early development stages, with only limited “nano-outside” applications commercially available and no specific regulations in the EU, USA, or elsewhere.

Methods

  • Design: narrative and critical literature review of recent and emerging trends in selected food supply chains and food-industry innovations, organized around case studies: fruits and vegetables, meat and meat products, seafood, functional foods, novel foods, and nanotechnologies.
  • Data or sample: secondary literature and market/institutional reports, including FAO, European Commission, Freshfel, and Rabobank sources; no primary data collection or systematic review protocol is described.
  • Main analysis: synthesis of evidence, identification of consensus and gaps, and suggestions for future research directions; no formal meta-analysis or quantitative synthesis is reported.

Limitations

  • Stated: the review is described as “wide, yet not exhaustive”; further studies are required on consumer attitudes toward novel and functional foods, especially in countries where preferences are weakly investigated, and more effort is needed on nanotech regulation, public knowledge, awareness, and trust.
  • Evident from the text: no systematic search strategy, inclusion criteria, or quality appraisal is described, and the reliance on selected case studies and secondary sources limits generalizability.

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    Recent economic crises and high price volatility have had severe consequences on global trade, global production, and global availability of food.

    “Moreover, the recent economic crises, joined to the high price volatility, have had severe consequences on global trade, global production and thus, on global availability of food (Bellemare, 2015;Santeramo, Carlucci, De Devitiis, Nardone, & Viscecchia, 2017;Santeramo, Lamonaca, Contò, Stasi, & Nardone, 2017).”
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    Changes in income and prices are potentially disruptive for the correct balancing of the diet.

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    The fruits and vegetables sector is growing rapidly worldwide.

    “The Fruits and vegetables (F & Vs) sector is growing rapidly worldwide (Pilone, Stasi,&Baselice, 2017;Santeramo, 2015c;Santeramo&von Cramon-Taubadel, 2016;Seccia, Santeramo, & Nardone, 2015).”
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    In the European Union, six member states out of 28 met the WHO recommendation for daily fruits and vegetables consumption.

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    In 2010, fresh-cut fruit market share was about 1% of total volume of fruit sold in Europe.

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    Increases in prices have led to an over-supply, and unequal distribution of production and incomes has exacerbated problems of access to food.

    “On one hand, the increase in prices has led to an over-supply, on the other hand the unequal distribution of production and incomes has exacerbated the problems of access to food (Barrett, 2002;Caracciolo & Santeramo, 2013;Otsuka, 2013).”
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    Global per capita calorie availability increased from 2196 kcal/day in 1961 to 2870 kcal/day in 2011.

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    Diets have become less and less balanced, and the prevalence of diseases linked to consumption of unbalanced diets increased.

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    Studies have shown causal relationships between dietary patterns and lifestyle habits and chronic illnesses.

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    The main reasons for fruits and vegetables market growth are growing consumer interest in ready-to-eat food and growing demand for food with higher safety standards.

    “The main reasons of the market growth are a growing consumers' interest in ready to eat food (Artés, Gomez, Aguayo, Escalona, & Artés-Hernandez, 2009), and a growing demand of food with higher safety standards (James, Ngarmsak, & Rolle, 2010).”
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    Worldwide, demand for ready-to-eat food concerns more western countries, while safer food production has global interest including developing countries due to export potential.

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    High consumption of fruits and vegetables in place of high carbohydrate and fat foods is likely to reduce overweight problems and cardiovascular diseases.

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    The EU School Fruit Scheme, approved in 2008, has been claimed to have a positive impact on intake of fresh fruits and vegetables.

    “In 2008, the EU Ministry of Agriculture approved the introduction of an EU School Fruit Scheme, to support the increase in consumption of fresh F & V in schools, which has been claimed to have a positive impact on intake of F & Vs (Wingensiefen, Maschkowski, Höllmer, Simons, & Hartmann, 2012).”
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    The WHO recommended level of daily consumption of fruits and vegetables is 400 g per capita.

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    Packaged salads represent about 50% of total fresh-cut market volume; fresh-cut fruit 10%; other categories 40%.

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    Sensorial profile, social interactions, time constraints, costs, advertising and personal ideology affect fruits and vegetables choices.

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    There is a negative relationship between income and convenience food purchase, indicating a budgetary barrier.

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    Limited spare time, social environment, and eating out are important limiting factors for fruits and vegetables consumption.

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    Food choice is related to labeling information, nutritional facts readable on the pack, and safety descriptors.

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    Minimally processed descriptors are negatively perceived, possibly due to their association with food safety risks.

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    Convenience food choice is positively related to lifestyle (social events, breakdown of mealtimes, eating alone, novelty) and time constraints, but negatively associated with cooking ability and importance of freshness.

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    Packaging is second in relevance to convenience and more important than brand and visual impact in consumers' decision making for ready-to-eat products.

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    There are inverse relationships between fresh-cut fruit consumption and income levels.

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    The current literature underlines the role of attributes associated to safety and shows their importance in orienting consumers' choices; packaging solutions are important determinants of trends in fruits and vegetables consumption.

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    Meat consumption is expected to steadily decrease in developed economies but increase in developing economies, so global demand for meat is expected to increase.

    “The consumption of meat and meat products is expected to be steadily decreasing in developed economies (Vranken, Avermaete, Petalios, & Mathijs, 2014), but to increase in developing economies: as a result the demand for meat is expected to increase (Fig. 1).”
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    In affluent economies, changes in meat consumption habits are driven by heterogeneity in valuations of product characteristics and increasing relevance of health, ethical and ecological issues.

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    From 2000 to 2012, world aquaculture production more than doubled from 32.4 to 66.6 million tons, while EU aquaculture production fell from 1.4 to 1.3 million tons.

    “However, from 2000 to 2012, while the world aquaculture production has more than doubled, from 32.4 to 66.6 million tons, the EU aquaculture production has fallen from 1.4 to 1.3 million tons (FAO, 2014).”
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    Global fish consumption grew from about 30 million tons in 1960 to over 130 million tons in 2012.

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    Aquaculture provides about half of global fish production and is one of the fastest growing food sectors in the world.

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    Purchase of organic meat is driven by perception that organic meat is safer, healthier, ethic, more environmentally-friendly, and produced with better animal welfare standards.

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    In the EU, aquaculture provides about 20% of total fish production.

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    Sensorial attributes are likely to gain further importance because taste is a major determinant of consumption choice in the food industry.

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    Willingness to pay more for animal welfare standards is higher for women and for consumers with higher level of education and income.

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    The most important quality attributes of fish and seafood (freshness, naturalness, healthiness, nutritional value, geographical origin and production method) are credence attributes and cannot be assessed by consumers even after consumption.

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    Consumers' choices are strongly affected by their attitudes towards food safety and environmental issues; expertise in judging food safety influences both the location and the frequency of consumption.

    “In particular, Santeramo, Carlucci, et al. (2017) and Santeramo, Lamonaca, et al. (2017) show that consumers' choices are proved to be strongly affected by their attitudes towards food safety and environmental issues: expertise in judging food safety influences both the location and the frequency of consumption.”
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    Informative food quality and safety certification labels have a significant influence on consumer choices.

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    Mandatory country-of-origin labeling for farmed fish is expected to increase EU aquaculture competitiveness and is generally considered one of the most important fish attributes for consumers.

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    Consumers have a clear preference for domestic fish products, perceived as superior for quality, safety and freshness with respect to imported fish.

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    The global market for functional foods was valued at $168 billion in 2013 and is forecast to exceed $300 billion by 2020.

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    High income and high education are associated with positive consumer behavior towards functional foods.

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    Familiarity with and health consciousness increase the chances of consumption of functional foods.

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    The effect of functional ingredients on perceived healthiness is positive when a natural match between carrier and bioactive ingredient exists, and negative for unnatural matches such as omega-3 added to yogurt.

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    The likelihood of functional food acceptance increases with the presence of an ill family member, with doctors/dieticians as source of information, and with the presence of children at home.

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    The rejection some people show towards new or unfamiliar foods (neophobia) has led to a very high new product failure rate, around 70-80%.

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    Taste and price quality ratio are important factors in consumers' choice of functional foods.

    “Taste and price quality ratio are important factors in consumers' choice of Ffs (GajdosKljusuric, Cacic, Misir, & Cacic, 2015).”
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    Product's brand, packages' features and convenience positively affect consumers' choices for functional food products.

    “Product's brand, packages' features and convenience affect positively consumers' choices for functional food products (Urala & Lähteenmäki, 2003).”
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    Age, gender and place of residence influence the acceptance of novel food.

    “Socio-demographic variables also play an important role: age (Tuorila, Lähteenmäki, Pohjalainen, & Lotti, 2001), gender (Nordin et al., 2004) and place of residence (Flight, Leppard, & Cox, 2003;Tuorila et al., 2001) influence the acceptance of novel food.”
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    Insect-based food could produce environmental benefits because of reduction in carbon emissions, lower requirements of water and space, and better biomass conversion rate.

    “In addiction insect-based food could produce good environmental benefits because of the relevant reduction in carbon emissions (van Huis et al., 2013), the lower requirements of water and space, and moreover, the better biomass conversion rate (Van Huis et al., 2013).”
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    Engineered nanoparticles are expected to provide a range of important benefits in the food sector, including sensory improvements, increased absorption of nutrients, stabilization of bioactive compounds, extended product shelf-life, and quality and safety monitoring.

    “they are expected to provide a range of important benefits including sensory improvements, increased absorption of nutrients, stabilization of bioactive compounds, extended product shelf-life, quality and safety monitoring”
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    Social acceptance for insect-based foods is higher when consumers had experience with insect food and when they are incorporated into familiar food items.

    “that the social acceptance for these new foods is higher when consumers had experience with insect food and when they are incorporated into familiar food items (Hamerman, 2016;Le Goff & Delarue, 2016)”
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    The current lack of a clear governance framework and consequent regulatory uncertainty makes it difficult for developers and manufacturers to know what regulations should be complied with and what risk assessments are appropriate.

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    The meat industry is not exempt from these dynamics.

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    A positive attitude towards new technology, better knowledge of nanotechnologies, and higher social trust tend to increase consumers' perceived benefits and reduce consumers' perceived risk.

    “a positive attitude towards new technology (neophobia), a better knowledge of nanotechnologies, and a higher social trust tend to increase consumers' perceived benefits and to reduce consumers' perceived risk”
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    Increased perceived benefits and reduced perceived risk increase consumers' willingness to buy food with nanotechnology applications.

    “this, in turn, increase consumers' willingness to buy food with nanotechnology applications”
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    The selected sectors (fruits and vegetables, meat, seafood) and food industry innovations (functional foods, novel foods, nanotechnology) are representative of emerging trends in European food, diets and food industry.

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    The reviewed literature provides a sufficient basis to identify emerging trends in European food, diets and food industry.

    “We review the recent and emerging trends in food supply chains of selected sectors (fruits and vegetables, meat, and seafood), and deepen on emerging trends in the food industry.”
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    Consumers' attitudes and preferences reported in the reviewed literature can be generalized to European consumers.

    “Recent changes in consumers' choices have been emphasized and the up to date knowledge has been reviewed so to suggest future direction for research agenda.”
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    Toxicology studies are providing increasing evidence that engineered nanoparticles may have adverse effects on human health and environment.

    “while toxicology studies are providing increasing evidence that engineered nanoparticles may have adverse effects on human health and environment”
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    Knowledge about the assessment of environmental exposure to engineered nanoparticles is still limited.

    “knowledge about the assessment of environment exposure to engineered nanoparticles is still limited”
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  • Neophobia is described as a positive attitude toward new technology

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    The nanotechnology section calls neophobia a positive attitude toward new technology, but the paper earlier defines neophobia as avoiding new foods. These descriptions assign opposite attitudes toward novelty to the same term.

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References 137 · Cited by 231

Research works printed but not linked: 3

  1. Corcoran, 2001, Current consumer attitudes towards lamb and beef in Europe, Options Méditerranéennes, A46, 75
  2. European Regulation, 1997, Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 1997 concerning novel foods and novel food ingredients, Official Journal of the European Communities, 40, 1
  3. Viscecchia, 2018, On consumers' acceptance of nanotechnologies, Journal on Food System Dynamics

Authors
Santeramo, F. G., Carlucci, D., De Devitiis, B., Seccia, A., Stasi, A., Viscecchia, R., & Nardone, G.
Affiliations
  • University of Foggia (IT)
  • University of Bari Aldo Moro (IT)
Corresponding author
Santeramo, F.G.
Venue
Food Research International
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-02
Volume
104
Pages
39-47
ISSN
0963-9969 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2767187171
Cited by
231
References
137
Citations by year
2026: 12 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 43 · 2020: 37 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 1
FWCI
39.87
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Food Research International (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • Institutional Research Information System University of Ferrara (University of Ferrara) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Bari Aldo Moro) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Agricultural and Food Production Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
Keywords
food security, dietary trends, nutritional intake, consumer preferences, food innovation, food supply chain, fruits and vegetables, meat, seafood, food industry trends, European food systems
MeSH terms
Diet, Healthy, Animals, Consumer Behavior, Europe, Feeding Behavior, Food Supply, Fruit, Humans, Meat, Nutritive Value, Vegetables, Seafood, Food Industry, Functional Food

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