The Harry & David Sweet Potato Butter offers a refreshing plant-based take on a beloved kitchen staple. Just like regular butter, the Sweet Potato Butter may be added to bread, toast and other baked goods for a savory-sweet treat. In terms of ingredients, the Sweet Potato Butter is made with yams, brown sugar and lemon, to create what Harry & David calls a "warm, mellow taste."
Harry & David also makes a range of unique fruit and vegetable butter spreads, including Peach Butter, Cherry Butter and Pumpkin Butter.
Sweet potato is coming into the spotlight as an ingredient that lends itself well to both sweet and savory applications. As such, the versatile root vegetable is becoming a popular stand-in for everything from pasta noodles to latte flavorings.
What's Driving This Trend
- Sweet Potato Butter
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Explore alternative plant-based spreads that offer unique flavors and applications.
- Fruit and Vegetable Butter Spreads
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Experiment with a variety of fruit and vegetable-based butter spreads to cater to diverse taste preferences.
- Sweet Potato as Versatile Ingredient
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop new and unexpected ways to incorporate sweet potatoes into different culinary creations, both sweet and savory.
Who This Affects Most
- Food Manufacturing
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Innovate within the food manufacturing industry by creating unique and flavorful spreads using unconventional ingredients.
- Bakery
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Collaborate with bakeries to incorporate sweet potato spreads into a wide range of baked goods for an innovative twist.
- Plant-based Products
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Capitalize on the growing demand for plant-based alternatives by creating a range of delicious and versatile plant-based spreads.
