Trend cluster
Category

Nutritional
Nostalgia

Animated fruit packaging allows for more approachable nutritional tactics.

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Trend

What is the Nutritional Nostalgia trend?

Nutritional Nostalgia: While adhering to a nutritional lifestyle offers a variety of health benefits, keeping to a restricted diet can often make day-to-day living tiresome and bland. Offering visual excitement without compromising nutritional integrity, brands are utilizing illustrations and personified imagery to transform mundane fruit products into designs that are nostalgic of one’s childhood. Blending youthful aesthetics with a desire for health-conscious living, animated fruit packaging reflects a turn toward more entertaining, yet approachable methods of nutritional consumption.

Trend themes

Themes within the Nutritional Nostalgia trend

Three behaviours holding the trend together
01

Personified Imagery

Brands are utilizing illustrations and personified imagery to transform products into designs that are nostalgic, entertaining, yet approachable for nutritional consumption.

02

Edible Personification

Personification of the key ingredient is being translated into a human form and given all sorts of accessories to create an image.

03

Visual Appeal

Blending youthful aesthetics with a desire for health-conscious living, animated and simplified fruit packaging adds visual excitement without compromising on nutritional integrity.

Industry implications

What the Nutritional Nostalgia trend means for industry

Where the trend changes the playbook
For

Packaging

New possibilities emerge for packaging industries to create and innovate lively designs to complement a broader consumer base for health-conscious products.

For

Nutrition and Wellness

The trend of approachable nutritional tactics opens opportunities for wellness professionals to tap in to the accessible and engaging ways of product promotion.

For

Beverage

Personified imagery and the emphasis on visual appeal provides the beverage industry new avenues to tap into a broad range of consumers, including young adults and children alike.

Trend signals

Trend signals for Nutritional Nostalgia

Trend score 4.5 out of 10, from popularity 63%, activity 63%, freshness 8%.

Popularity63%
Activity63%
Freshness8%
Audience
50%Men
50%Women
  • Gen Alpha (not a primary audience)
  • Gen Z
  • Millennial
  • Gen X
  • Boomer (not a primary audience)
Market
North America
Europe
Asia-Pacific