By NZMP
Consumers transformed many of their eating habits in 2020: We stockpiled more, we cooked more and we certainly snacked more. In fact, the 2020 Global Consumer Snacking Trends Study from Mondelez and The Harris Poll found that 88% of adults snacked more or the same as before the pandemic, with more than 66% citing the activity as one of the few sources of reward and satisfaction in my day, and an additional 70% finding snacks to be as key to their mental and emotional wellbeing as their physical wellbeing.
The reason seems pretty clear to Emma Dunstone-Brown, Strategic Ventures Manager at Fonterra, the parent company of the business-to-business dairy-ingredient brand NZMP, given the link between snacking and stress, which seem to be rising in tandem. People have always been stressed, but now people are talking much more openly about its effect on mental wellness and mood, she said. When conducting social listening around stress and mood, her team found stress-related c