Traditional food products are increasingly reformulated with functional ingredients that offer consumers health benefits for physical and mental well-being and, in many cases, cater to ethical sourcing demands. From protein-enriched snacks to CBD-infused soft drinks, producers can now offer a broad range of lifestyle supplementation through everyday products. This ability gives the F&B industry several major advantages and responsibilities. First, major producers can impact public health by altering the content of traditionally unhealthy foods. Second, ethically superior ingredients — such as plant-based pulses and grains — can substitute animal-derived nutrients, bypassing environmentally intensive and cruel battery farming practices.
