Top 15 Flavors Sampled
- Vanilla
- Orange, Blood Orange, Orange Cream
- Strawberry
- Raspberry, Black Raspberry
- Chocolate, Cocoa
- Cherry, Black Cherry
- Butter, Butterscotch, Butter Pecan
- Caramel, Salted Caramel
- Lime, Key Lime
- Apple, Spiced Apple, Sour Apple
- Blueberry/Blueberry Muffin
- Mango
- Cookie
- Mint, Peppermint, Spearmint, Creme de Menthe
- Cinnamon
Flavor Trends: Seen & Noted
RISING TRENDS (Flavors increasing in popularity): Acai, Anise, Baklava, Brandy, Brown Sugar Cannoli, Capsicum, Cardamom, Chamoy, Chipotle Pepper, Cinnamon, Cola, Cranberry, Cream Cheese, Cream Soda, Donut, Dragonfruit, Dulce de Leche, Eggnog, Elderflower, Gingerbread, Graham, Heat, Honey, Kola Nut, Lemon Pound Cake, Mamey, Mango, Mangosteen, Marscapone Cheese, Menthol, Meyer Lemon, Mixed Berry, Mocha, Nutmeg, Passionfruit-kiwi, Peanut, Pecan, Pistachio, Prickly Pear, Rum, Shortbread, S’mores, Sour Dough, Soursop, Speculoos, Sweet Potato, Tea, Tequila, Tiramisu, Tropical/Blend/Breeze/Punch, Tutti-Frutti, Waffle, Walnut/Black Walnut, Wildberry, Yogurt, Yuzu.
The big picture in rising trends is a drop in fun, nostalgic, and seasonal flavors and a rise in premium bakery, global spices and nutty brown flavors.
European bakery inspired flavors have gained popularity with Cannoli, Shortbread, Speculoos and Tiramisu all rising up the ranks.
Global spice and heat flavors are up with Cardamom, Chamoy, Chipotle, Capsicum, Anise and Nutmeg appearing on the list.
Exotic Tropical Fruit flavors are on the rise with Acai, Mamey, Mangosteen, Yuzu, Soursop and Passionfruit-Kiwi showing solid increases in popularity.
Nutty Brown flavors have also seen a lift with Pistachio, Walnut, Pecan, Brown Sugar, Mocha, Peanut, and Cola/Kola Nut rising.
Trends that fell off this quarter include Seasonal: Pumpkin Spice, Botanical/Floral: Lavender, Simple Nostalgic Sweets: Toffee and Cotton Candy.
In the Top 15: Vanilla holds the top spot while Orange moves up to the number 2 spot. Strawberry moves down to number 3. Raspberry holds its spot at 4th and Caramel dropped 3 spots to number 8. Chocolate and Cherry each hopped up one spot to numbers 5 and 6. Mint moved down 6 spots to number 14. Apple and Lime held onto the number 9 and 10 spots.
Mango, Cookie and Cinnamon are all new to the list this quarter at 12, 13, and 15. Peach, Cake and Coconut dropped off the list completely.
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