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Whole Foods Market unveils top anticipated food trends for 2025.

Price increases have driven sales since 2019, but volume is not catching up to pre-pandemic levels.

Despite high price points, sausage remains resilient.

Our Associate Editor Sammy Bredar sits down with 84.51˚ Insights Director Melissa Myres to analyze consumers' meat purchasing habits.

Consumers want a smaller basket size and smaller packages of fresh meat for 2024.

Here are a few predictions to consider as we saddle up for 2023.

Bacon remains popular as a versatile but familiar comfort food.

Driven by the huge increase in at-home meal occasions during the COVID-19 pandemic, bacon, like numerous other proteins, has seen an upsurge in overall buyers vs. a year ago for the latest 52 weeks, ending June 14, 2020, in multi-retail outlets, excluding convenience, according to IRI, Chicago. 

With the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. consumer purchase behavior has shifted to more retail and less foodservice, and ground products have been go-to-products for people sheltering in place. In turn, increased demands to meet production needs are challenging processors to keep grinding and stuffing equipment highly operational at top speeds.