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♤ Product Innovation
Certain processed food categories such as snack foods are impulse purchase products where consumers look for novelty and new flavours and hence these categories lack brand loyalties. Visibility through attractive packaging boosts consumption. Increasing time constraints amongst the working middle class has boosted consumption of products like instant soups, noodles and ready-to-make products. Innovation in packaging and product usage is an important success factor for processed foods.