20 Nov 2019 --- Kerry Group and IBM recently launched a predictive artificial intelligence (AI) tool to forecast future trends in food and beverage and guide the development of winning consumer-preferred products. Kerry Trendspotter taps into large scale unstructured data to understand consumer behavior and anticipate future consumer needs. The tool enables real-time analysis of food-related social media content by digesting vast amounts of textual data quickly and securely. Then by extracting food items and cataloging food-related combinations, it can predict the trending food, ingredient and flavor candidates likely to go mainstream in the near future.