Snacking has become a vital part of human life. It is seen that in some countries, people do prefer to snack 7 to 8 times a day, where the ratio of main meals is lesser than the snack time. Food industry has a vast option available for snacking where the commonly eaten snacks are dry fruits, chips, biscuits, tea etc. In the traditional style of snacking, people used to serve the leftovers of meals during the snack time which used to happen after lunch or prior to it, commonly known as snacks and brunch time respectively. Snacks are not only to mitigate the hunger between the main meals but also to taste and enjoy the time and food. Due to the spices, color, presentation, tempting taste and crisps in many of the snacks, they are preferred even over the main meals, and as a result even the meals are skipped by many kids due to the same.
Rising Opportunities in the Snack Food Industry
With the urbanization and consumer preferences of convenient food, comes the higher requirement in demand of snack food. Some of the reasons of increased demand of snack food are:
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- Married women continuing weather jobs and staying out of their homes more than 8 hours a day makes it convenient for the kids to go for the smacking more often.
- Due to the increase in nuclear families, people prefer to go for convenient food and snacking often more than the complete meal. For instance for small celebrations, different occasions, a day out with family, taking a break from work usually Sundays.
- Some people do prefer to have small snacks rather than big meals, sometimes as a part of their diet and health plan and other times due to lack of time.
- Availability of snacks stores and shops closer to the distance of houses also makes it convenient for the people to get the packaged food and snacks at their convenience which acts as a big opportunity in the field of Snack Food Industry. In fact as for certain studies these food stores are made closer to one another and at least one outlet in an area was open to increase its sales.
- Out of all its segments which include salted, bakery, confectionery and frozen snacks, bakery snacks are able to succeed more than other segments with higher market coverage. Furthermore, the salted and confectionery including chips, chocolates, crisps, candies, cookies etc are forecasted to grow eventually.
Its several advantages, leading to the rise of the Snack Food Industry, are finely working and able to achieve its target within time. The growth, from 2016 to 2025, is forecasted at CAGR of 5.34 percent.
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Conclusion
This book, The Complete Technology Book on Snack Food, written by NPCS, talks about its huge domestic and export market, snack food emphasizing its evolving nature which will even help you understand and perform well if it’s your first hand experience in business. Moreover, it explores the processing of snack food which further sub explores different types of preparing, developing and processing of snack food. It further talks about the technical functions such as product development, quality control, nutritional supplementation, machinery equipment etc. The book is designed in such a manner that it covers up all the aspects and fundamentals of the snack Food Industry by covering various measures expected in it. Also, this book aims to provide ideas to the control personnel’s to solve various problems, new entrants to communicate with confidence with its suppliers and every individual to meet their expectations who thrust to work upon the snacking industry.
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