{"id":13414,"date":"2026-05-25T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=13414"},"modified":"2026-05-25T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:00:00","slug":"shelf-life-does-every-food-have-to-have-a-function-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=13414","title":{"rendered":"Shelf Life: Does Every Food Have To Have A Function Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re living in the height of optimization culture, the pervasive mindset that every aspect of life, sleep, diet, work, relationships, and even leisure should be rigorously tracked and improved for maximum efficiency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, lest we have forgotten, it\u2019s also the age of Ozempic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We know humans to be tremendously responsive to circumstance. Change what someone\u2019s surrounded by and adjust what they\u2019re told to focus on, and their behavior shifts almost instantly. This is exactly what has happened to the American eater.<\/p>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/shelf-life-does-every-food-have-to-have-a-function-now\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re living in the height of optimization culture, the pervasive mindset that every aspect of life, sleep, diet, work, relationships, and even leisure should be rigorously tracked and improved for maximum efficiency.\u00a0 And, lest we have forgotten, it\u2019s also the age of Ozempic. We know humans to be tremendously responsive to circumstance. Change what someone\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[494,6365,6366,100,1795,3805,1871,3615,1156,1271,5685,6367,6368,6369,6370,679,1178,6371,6372,22],"class_list":["post-13414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-consumer-trends","tag-diet-culture","tag-fiber","tag-food","tag-food-industry","tag-food-marketing","tag-food-trends","tag-functional-food","tag-glp-1","tag-granola","tag-gut-health","tag-health-and-wellness","tag-healthy-eating","tag-nutrition","tag-optimization-culture","tag-ozempic","tag-protein","tag-protein-maxxing","tag-weight-loss","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}