Trend: Personalization. Younger consumers increasingly expect categories to adapt to their tastes, occasions and cultural references rather than asking them to conform to established category rules. Echo Falls Blue Raspberry shows what that can mean for wine: an electric-blue, fruit-flavoured, 9% ABV drink designed for casual social occasions went viral, sold out before its official release and has since sold more than two million bottles through convenience and wholesale. Th

Trend: Indulgence. Fall indulgence is not disappearing, but consumers are looking beyond the predictable sweetness that has defined seasonal menus. Salted brown butter latte searches have jumped 900% year over year and salted maple latte searches 550%, while consumer research cited by The Food Institute finds 47% think pumpkin is overrated and one in four are completely over it. The emerging Swavory Flavors trend is introducing salt and savory notes into familiar sweet treats