Active Kids Get Cooking

We buy nine million loaves of bread a day, most of us will eat a sandwich four to five times a week. Bread is  filling, easy to use for healthy snacks and there are over two hundred types of bread products in the UK alone.

This Italian dish is part of a range of gourmet quality ready meals that are sold under the 'Taste the difference' own brand label. Cooked in a factory environment but using the same methods and ingredients found in a domestic kitchen makes it as close to homemade as possible.

'Be Good to Yourself' Ham is part of Sainsbury's own brand range of products that have to meet a set criteria for levels salt, fat and sugar. This is a cross category product with distinctive packaging that shoppers recognise and trust. Ham is a traditional product that is very popular as a sandwich filling, a pizza topping and the protein element of a main meal salad.

 

 

 

 

Sugarloaf pineapple  which is naturally very sweet is prepared, packed and on the supermarket shelf within two days of being harvested by hand in Ghana. As the farmers are paid under the fairtrade scheme, this has changed their lives and they now have access to health care and education for their families and UK consumer's can enjoy a new variety of pineapple. Find out more about the pre-prepared fruit market and the benefits. Special focus here is on 5 a day.

This product belongs to the established pre-prepared vegetable market. Particularly good for those who want to cook fresh vegetables but are time poor. Asian style stir fry dishes are extremely popular, easy to prepare and a tasty way to encorporate more vegetables in the diet. Foreign travel and increase in Chinese,Thai and other Asian restaurants have encouraged consumers to prepare stir fry dishes at home.

Sausages have become an extremely active area for product development. Ten Years ago you had to go to speciality shops and butchers to buy traditional style sausages.Today supermarkets like Sainsbury's work hard with suppliers to bring a changing and innovative range of sausages year round. The demand for sausages rises in the summer as they are a popular BBQ item. Influences from global cuisines have impacted on sausage styles and seasoning. Sainsbury's So Organic sausages are made from high quality meat from an Organic farm here in the UK. Find out here how they are manufactured and go to the special focus to learn about the Organic food market.

 

Soup is a traditional dish that is featured in one form or another in virtually every cuisine in the world. From hearty thick creamy vegetable soups to aromatic spiced stocks full of noodles. Perfect for cold weather or a quick filling snack. Use this case study to find out more about the UK soup market, see how a canned soup is developed and produced. Use the 'Soup Kitchen' guide to make your own delicious soups that make eating vegetables a delicious treat.

 

Developing products for those who suffer from food intolerance is a growing area for New Product Development. Find out more here about the type of foods that are cause for concern and how retailers have responded.

 

High quality children's food has become a important driver for product development. These chicken nuggets belong to a cross category 'own label' range of products that offer parents fun,delicious healthy food for their family. Find out you can make healthy family food without losing out on favourites like chicken nuggets.