Fresh Vegetable Growth Outpaces Frozen and Fruit
CHICAGO, February 15, 2021 — Numerator, a data and tech company serving the market research space, has launched a Health Trends Tracker to monitor sales trends and consumer sentiment among select health categories associated with start of year health intentions, including Fresh and Frozen Produce, Vitamins & Supplements, Meat Alternatives, and Activity Trackers & Smartwatches.
The Health Trends Tracker reports an index of year over year category sales for the past 13 months with additional data from a survey of 3,000+ verified health category buyers.
Health Trends Index shows:
- All categories were up versus prior year in 2020 in line with increased eating at home, stockpiling behaviors and health concerns throughout the pandemic.
- All categories are up January 2021 versus 2020, noting January 2020 behaviors predated widespread concern about the pandemic.
- Vitamins & Supplements show the highest growth at +23%, followed by Meat Alternatives and Fresh Vegetables at +21% and +13% respectively.
Sales Growth Index for Tracked Health Categories
| FRESH | FROZEN | ||||||
| Activity Trackers & Smartwatches | Vitamins & Supplements | Vegetables | Fruit | Vegetables | Fruit | Meat Alternatives | |
| Annual Sales
2020 vs. 2019 |
105 | 124 | 117 | 113 | 118 | 125 | 161 |
| YTD Sales
2021 vs. 2020 |
105 | 123 | 113 | 111 | 110 | 111 | 121 |
Key consumer sentiment findings among verified buyers of health categories include:
- Consumer health-related behaviors have improved during COVID: 42% of those surveyed indicated their health-related behaviors have improved since the onset of COVID, with 42% indicating they had not changed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and 15% reporting their health-related behaviors had declined.
- Consumers plan to improve: 74% of consumers indicated they were targeting a healthier lifestyle in 2021. More than half (54%) intend to purchase more healthy foods, and 45% intend to purchase fewer unhealthy foods in 2021.
- COVID is helping drive healthier change: 14% of respondents said their year-to-date 2021 health purchases were a result of a COVID-related behavioral change, while another 14% said the purchases were influenced by start-of-year intentions related to their health. This number jumps to 27% of consumers indicating their year-to-date Vitamins & Supplements purchases were related to a COVID health focus.
The Health Trends Tracker is updated bi-weekly with YTD omnichannel sales data.
About Numerator
Numerator is a data and tech company bringing speed and scale to market research. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, Numerator has more than 2,000 employees worldwide. The company blends proprietary data with advanced technology to create unique insights for the market research industry that has been slow to change. The majority of Fortune 100 companies are Numerator clients.
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