Table of Contents
Scope and Themes
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- What you need to know
- Abbreviations and terms
- Abbreviations
- Terms
Executive Summary
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- Snapshot of religious food traditions and limitations
- Food often used to express sympathy or joy…or just to be helpful
- For many “kosher” simply means “quality”
- Religious food traditions are family traditions
- Technology and sacred foods
- Sacred foods to blend more with major food trends in the future
Food and Life Events/Occasions
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- Summary
- Data and details
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- Figure 1: Reasons for bringing food to family, friends, or neighbors, November 2006
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- Figure 2: Reasons for bringing food to family, friends, or neighbors, by gender, November 2006
- Figure 3: Reasons for bringing food to family, friends, or neighbors, by age, November 2006
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- Figure 4: Reasons for bringing food to family, friends, or neighbors, by race/Hispanic origin, November 2006
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- Figure 5: Reasons for bringing food to family, friends, or neighbors, by respondents’ views and/or beliefs, November 2006
Religious Beliefs
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- Section summary
- Data and details
- Religious identification: Results of the ARIS survey
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- Figure 6: Self-described religious identification of U.S. adult population: 1990 and 2001
- Religious identification: Results of the Mintel survey
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- Figure 7: religious views and/or beliefs, November 2006
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- Figure 8: Respondents’ religious views and/or beliefs, by age, November 2006
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- Figure 9: Respondents’ religious views and/or beliefs, by household income, November 2006
- Figure 10: Respondents’ religious views and/or beliefs, by race/Hispanic origin, November 2006
Prevalence of Religious Food Traditions and Restrictions
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- Summary
- Introduction
- Data and details
- Food and faith
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- Figure 11: Religious and holiday food traditions, November 2006
- Figure 12: Religious and holiday food traditions, by race/Hispanic origin, November 2006
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- Figure 13: Mintel eClip: Mexican Easter bread pudding, 2005
- Figure 14: Religious and holiday food traditions, by respondents’ views and/or beliefs, November 2006
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- Figure 15: Reasons for purchasing kosher products, April 2005
- Frequency of observing food-related religious holidays
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- Figure 16: Frequency of observing food-related religious holidays, by age, November 2006
Attitudes and Opinions about Religious Food Traditions
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- Summary
- Data and details
- Religious food traditions as family traditions
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- Figure 17: Perceived importance of passing religious food traditions on in the family, November 2006
- Belief that food companies understand food traditions
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- Figure 18: Belief that some food companies understand religious food traditions, November 2006
- Shopping for religious food traditions
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- Figure 19: Perception that religious food traditions require shopping at special stores, November 2006
Religious Food Restrictions
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- Summary
- Data and details
- Religion and food restrictions
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- Figure 20: Food restrictions by type of religion
- Classification of food restrictions
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- Figure 21: Classification of religious food restrictions, November 2006
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- Figure 22: How strictly respondents follow religious food restrictions, November 2006
- Reasons for following religious food restrictions
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- Figure 23: Reasons for observing religious food restrictions, November 2006
- Difficulty of following religious food restrictions
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- Figure 24: Ease or difficulty of following religious diets in specific places, November 2006
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- Figure 25: Menu items from kosher ingredients, by restaurant type, 2005-06
A Closer Look at Kosher and Halal Foods
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- Summary
- Data and details
- Kosher food
- New kosher product launches
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- Figure 26: Kosher food product launches in the United States, 2000-2006
- Halal Foods
- New Halal product launches
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- Figure 27: Halal food product launches in the U.S., 2003-2006
Kosher and Halal Among Specialty Food Buyers
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- Summary
- Introduction
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- Figure 28: Purchases of kosher and Halal foods among specialty food buyers, June 2006
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- Figure 29: Reason for purchasing kosher and/or Halal food among specialty food buyers, June 2006
- Behaviors and opinions of specialty food shoppers who purchase Halal and kosher foods
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- Figure 30: Behaviors and opinions of respondents who purchase specialty foods and who purchased kosher and/or Halal foods in the past month, June 2006
The Future of Sacred Foods
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- Hispanics and religious food traditions
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- Figure 31: Population by race and Hispanic origin, 2002-2012
- Inter-faith marriages
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- Figure 32: Intermarriage among Jewish people, by year marriage began, pre-1970-2001
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- Figure 33: Opinions among Jews in interfaith marriages regarding whether Chanukah and Christmas celebrations should be “blended,” October 2006
- More religious symbols and references in food
- Ethical and spiritual vegetarianism
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- Figure 34: Meat consumption patterns, by age, May-June 2005
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- Figure 35: Attitudes and opinions of vegetarians vs. non-vegetarians, January-September 2004
- Other sacred foods and the future of sacred food certification
- Sacred foods to combine more with other food trends
- The organic food trend
- Convenience products
- Food service
- Technology and sacred foods
Appendix: Trade Associations
Appendix: New Product Briefs
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- Concord Confections: Dubble Bubble Christmas Story Book
- Schreiber Foods: Matzoh Balls (Passover Edition)
- Schick’s Bakery: Passover Chocolate Bon-Bons
- Holy Land: Holy Land Peppetizer Dip
- Haribo: Haribo Sweets
- Carpe Diem: Carpe Diem Ginkgo Herbal Drink
- Inspirational Candy: Fish Mints
- Galilee Splendor: Bible Bread Gourmet Crisp Bread
- Scripture Candy: Scripture Gourmet Lolly Pops
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