Discover the future trends in the global ice cream market with Mintel’s Future Of report. The report identifies the key consumer and industry trends that will impact the global coffee market over the next five years.
The most important upcoming trends in the ice cream market are analysed and succinctly presented alongside relevant insights from Mintel’s consumer data. So you can understand how consumer demands will change and identify future innovation and growth opportunities.
This report also presents Mintel’s analysts’ pick of the most innovative and inspirational launches in the global ice cream market. Understanding the future of the ice cream industry has never been so simple.
To discover more about the global ice cream market, read Mintel’s A Year of Innovation in Ice Cream or take a look at Mintel’s extensive ice cream market research.
Meet The Expert
Alice Pilkington is responsible for providing consumer insights and actionable recommendations on Mintel’s portal, as well as delivering regular client presentations. Alice’s previous experience includes teaching English in Istanbul and Rome and working as a cookery school teacher for Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay.
Responding to UPF scrutiny will be crucial for ice cream; traditional cooling foods and types of ice cream can help the category better respond to climate change.
Alice Pilkington
Senior Global Food & Drink Analyst
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what you need to know
- Where we are now
- In the next two years
- In five years and beyond
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in the next two years
- Mintel’s perspective
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Permissible pleasure
- Ice cream will feel the heat from the focus on ultra-processed food
- Amidst the UPF furore, stripped-back packaging material and design can boost natural perceptions
- Re-evaluation of full-fat dairy offers opportunities to celebrate it as a flavour in itself
- Explore the depths of dairy flavours
- Ice cream brands should leverage the recent popularity of viral ice cream makers
- Is frozen cottage cheese (froco) the new froyo?
- Weight-loss drugs will give mini formats new meaning
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the familiar and the foreign
- Foster connection with national heritages through regional ingredients
- Ingredient sourcing call-outs can connect ice cream consumers with national identity and heritage
- Blend ‘heritage’ and emerging flavours to channel newstalgia
- Ice cream will offer a ‘stepping stone’ to unfamiliar cuisines
- Asian-inspired innovation can tap into appeal of the unexpected in ice cream
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satisfaction, socialising and going solo
- The cost-of-living crisis is evolving, rather than dissolving
- Graph 1: financial confidence over the next year or so, 2024
- Ice cream kits offer consumers customisation
- Informal social gatherings point to opportunities for exciting, ‘talking-point’ indulgence
- Cater to the growing number of single-person households
- Prove value to solo settlers through versatility
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in five years and beyond
- Mintel’s perspective
- Ageing population points to threats and opportunities going forward
- Sugar-reduction tech will offer sorbets a solution
- Ancient wisdom will help ice cream better deal with a modern crisis
- Will soaring temperatures finally give dondurma its time in the sun?
- Dondurma offers an experience that AI cannot replicate
- Dondurma offers a stretchy show!
- Key takeaways
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How Mintel Builds a Picture of the Future
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