Strategies & Trends in Kids Nutrition 2024

Strategies & Trends in Kids Nutrition 2024


Launching a healthier kids nutrition product is one of riskiest things any company can do. It’s a crowded and challenging market and the failure rate is high. This report takes everything we have learned from our special focus on the kids market since 2004 and helps you to reduce your risk of failure – and maximise your chances of success. It includes:

An 8-point checklist you can use to create a successful kids nutrition strategy

How to use a life-cycle analysis to work out where to best position your brand in the market – and what that means for your pricing strategy and volume targets.

The 8 Key Trends you can choose to follow to create a point of difference and achieve sales growth

4 Mega-Trends that must form part of any strategy

Our checklist and trends are all illustrated with real-world examples of brands that have either achieved mainstream success or have carved out a niche – or failed.

Companies everywhere are facing economic challenges, with recession, inflation, or both at the same time. That makes this report both timely and useful. We draw on:

Our 15+ years of expert consultancy in the kids nutrition sectorOur wealth of primary research, including interviews with hundreds of industry executives


1. Eight paths to success in kids nutrition
2. Using the lifecycle model to think about your brand positioning & pricing
3. Mega Trends & Key Trends in kids nutrition
Mega Trend 1: Snackification at the heart of strategy
Mega Trend 2: Naturally functional
Mega Trend 3: Fragmentation of health beliefs
Mega Trend 4: Sustainability
Key Trend 1: Animal protein powers on
Key Trend 2: Sweetness reinvented
Key Trend 3: Plants made convenient
Key Trend 4: Digestive wellness diversifies
Key Trend 5: Mood & Mind
Key Trend 6: Provenance & authenticity
Key Trend 7: Rethinking fat
Key Trend 8: Real foods & the UPF challenge

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