The shifts in eating habits already under way before the pandemic have now been amplified by the coronavirus crisis. It has sharpened the public appetite for healthier products
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Health foods will become a dominant nutrition trend in the post-Covid era, the boss of the Swiss group Firmenich, one of the world's major flavour and perfume manufacturers, told AFP.
The pandemic had sharpened the public appetite for healthier products, said chief executive Gilbert Ghostine.
"With Covid, consumers suddenly realised that if your immune system is weak, if you're overweight, if you have diabetes, then you are more exposed," he said.
"Health and well-being is so critical and at this time people are more conscious about what they eat."
The shifts in eating habits already under way before the pandemic have now been amplified by the coronavirus crisis. And that has set the roadmap for the company's investments over the next 10 to 20 years, said Ghostine.