3 Food Trends Inspired By Millennials That Older Consumers Are Eating Up

Forbes reporting on the dietary and nutritional research being done by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab's Lifestyle Leaders, an extraordinary group of adults 85-years old and older that work alongside AgeLab researchers and students to explore the lives of the nation's most senior men and women. They've come up with three food values and lifestyles that Millennials may share with many older adults. The first is "Heat & Eat: Keep It Convenient." The quest for convenience is fueling the growth of such near-ubiquitous food delivery services as Uber Eats. The second is "From Kitchen To Kit." Ready-to-cook meal kit services, like Hello Fresh and Plated, promise a meal pre-cut, pre-measured with easy-to-make recipes that result in putting a familiar favorite or exotic dish on the table in less than a half-dozen steps in under a half-hour. The third trend is "In The Zone: Eating For Health." While managing chronic conditions, such as diabetes and hypertension, may place healthy eating high on the agendas of our 85-plus friends, making healthy food choices is an important consumer value to Millennials also.