{"id":8812,"date":"2016-03-23T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=8812"},"modified":"2016-03-24T08:14:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T12:14:31","slug":"2015-interest-in-natural-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/23\/2015-interest-in-natural-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 INTEREST IN NATURAL FOODS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0596.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0596\" width=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0596.jpg 3901w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0596-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0596-1024x804.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3901px) 100vw, 3901px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to a State of the Industry presentation at Natural Products Expo West 2016, the natural products industry grew 9.5% to $180 billion dollars in 2015. Food and beverages accounted for $67 billion dollars of those sales.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty seven percent of sales was through mass market channels. Internet accounted for three percent of industry sales. Organics accounted for $35 billion in sales. In a three month period, 40% of consumer used a plant protein option. Twenty four percent used a soy protein option.<\/p>\n<p>As a perspective, according to statista.com, in 2013 total food sales in the U.S. was 1.42 trillion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>For more poll information, see:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutshell\/faq.htm#poll\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutshell\/faq.htm#poll<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a State of the Industry presentation at Natural Products Expo West 2016, the natural products industry grew 9.5% to $180 billion dollars in 2015. Food and beverages accounted for $67 billion dollars of those sales. Fifty seven percent of sales was through mass market channels. Internet accounted for three percent of industry sales. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8814,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions\/8814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}