In 2022, technology revolutionizes the shopping cart

(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 09 - In the coming months, technologies will play a key role in food, also to respond to market needs such as sustainability, less waste, more plant-based alternatives: the main food tech trends for 2022. That's what underlines an analysis by InsideMarketing in highlighting that in the third quarter of 2021 alone, on a global scale, over ten billion dollars were spent on food technologies, reaching an annual investment 85% higher than that of the previous year. The pandemic changes menu and way of filling the shopping cart: with the continuation of the Covid emergency in the next few months we could see, for example, the proliferation of ghost restaurants, i.e. restaurants that only prepare dishes for take-away and delivery. Furthermore theAccording to the Inside Marketing observatory, the year that has just begun will be first and foremost that of the large-scale success of the so-called fake meat, meat without meat. For operators, however, as the experts of the Food Technology Magazine point out, the market is increasingly fragmented by food needs linked to health issues or ethical-ideological choices. For example, for those who eat meat, the new must is the "reducitarianism" which requires eating less meat, but of quality and selected, according to Whole Foods Market which identifies, among the ten top trends, alcohol-free drinks and hibiscus infusions and sauces . While the ingredient to discover is moringa, a superfood plant grown in the equatorial and tropical belt. In making agri-food production more smart, a key role will be played by sensors,data and data analysis tools, predictive models created thanks to machine learning and artificial intelligence as well as the blockchain. Many of the digital technologies can be exploited to find packages capable of increasing the life of food by postponing its expiry date. (HANDLE).