Processed Fruit and Vegetables Packaging

After seeing only sluggish retail unit volume growth, at best, in the earlier years of the review period, shelf stable fruit and vegetables packaging recorded a spike in demand due to the arrival of the pandemic in 2020, followed by further positive…

In 2022, plastic pouches continued to increase their pack type share in processed fruit and vegetables in Canada due to their versatile and practical attributes. Plastic pouches offer a lightweight and space-efficient packaging format, which reduces…

Frozen processed vegetables have been gaining in popularity in Colombian processed fruit and vegetable packaging due to their convenience, longer shelf life and retention of nutritional value. Flexible plastic is the favoured pack type for these…

The COVID-19 restrictions introduced when the pandemic hit the country in 2020, saw consumers stockpiling packaged food products, with processed fruit and vegetables ideal for this. This saw a major spike in packaging unit volume sales in processed…

The Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus was resulting in case number spikes across China throughout much of 2022, prompting the authorities to enforce strict lockdown measures due to its zero-COVID policy. As consumers were confined to their homes,…

Processed fruit and vegetables packaging continued to grow in Brazil in 2022, in spite of already having enjoyed a spike in demand in the past two years due to the additional home cooking during the pandemic. Consumers are increasingly looking for…

After seeing a spike in demand in 2020, due to consumer stockpiling when the pandemic hit the country, shelf stable fruit and vegetables have since been recording declines in retail unit volumes in 2021 and 2022. Despite these declines, shelf stable…

The packaging unit volumes of flexible plastic used in frozen processed potatoes saw a strong spike in demand in 2020 and remained at elevated levels in 2021 thanks to a further modest sales increase. Travel restrictions and limited foodservice…

In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the Spanish authorities to implement strict national lockdown measures around the country, as well as subsequent local lockdowns throughout the year to continue to prevent the spread of the COVID-19…

Having contracted during 2019, processed fruit and vegetables packaging returned to growth during 2020. With consumers spending more time at home during the year, they prepared and ate more meals there. Moreover, COVID-19 drove heightened consumer…

Due to the continued strong increase in the amount of time Germans were spending at home, the number of meals prepared and cooked at home still remained higher than in more normal times, especially since foodservice operations were also restricted…

Shelf stable fruit and vegetables had a very good year in 2020, as demand rose substantially in this year for shelf stable vegetables, which dominates sales of shelf stable fruit and vegetables, and shelf stable beans. This therefore boosted the…

Shelf stable beans was still recording positive unit volume growth in 2021, albeit much slower than in 2020, as growing health consciousness in Italy, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, also included increased awareness of the nutritional benefits…

As fresh fruit and vegetables are diverse and affordable in Vietnam, and generally preferred for their freshness, most local consumers continue to favour them over processed products. They are also generally considered to taste better. This limits…

Processed fruit and vegetables registered declining volume sales in Thailand over the course of 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although many consumers stockpiled essential goods during the early stages of the…

After registering modest unit volume growth rates in the earlier years of the review period and even slipping into decline in 2019, processed fruit and vegetables recorded a strong increase in its packaging unit volumes during 2020. This was mainly…

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Japan in 2020, this drove a significant increase in the bulk-buying of processed fruit and vegetables, as consumers stockpiled these products due to fears of supply-chain disruption. Due to their long shelf life and…

Frozen fruit, in particular berries, is a category that is less affected by a shift towards fresher options, as these products are often used to prepare home-made desserts, smoothies and fruit purées. Frozen fruit was therefore already recording…

Shelf stable fruit and vegetables dominates sales of process fruit and vegetables in Indonesia, with metal food cans the main pack type in shelf stable fruit and vegetables as well as therefore also processed fruit and vegetables as a whole. The use…

Growth in the number of packaging unit volumes used in shelf stable fruit and vegetables slowed in 2021. This followed the spike in sales seen in 2020, which could be attributed to the pandemic, and the restrictions introduced to contain its spread…