{"id":13490,"date":"2026-05-31T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=13490"},"modified":"2026-05-31T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:00:00","slug":"shelf-life-going-bananas-over-cpgs-new-hottest-ingredient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=13490","title":{"rendered":"Shelf Life:\u00a0 Going Bananas Over CPG\u2019s New Hottest Ingredient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the past three decades, the banana has become the fruit equivalent of beige. It\u2019s ever-present. You buy it because it\u2019s there, and then you eat it because it\u2019s\u2026 there. It\u2019s not really craveable, and it\u2019s not been at the forefront of anyone\u2019s thoughts, really.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet, bananas <em>are<\/em> the highest-selling and most-produced fruit, reaching over 139 million metric tons annually. Watermelons are trailing behind at around 104 million metric tons annually. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m a banana hater; it\u2019s just that I believe that their abundance and ubiquity in fruit bowls across the globe have\u00a0 led to a lack of attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If they\u2019re always available, always present, always there, then what gives them an edge of interest?\u00a0<\/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\/banana-trend-2026-food-beverage-culture\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past three decades, the banana has become the fruit equivalent of beige. It\u2019s ever-present. You buy it because it\u2019s there, and then you eat it because it\u2019s\u2026 there. It\u2019s not really craveable, and it\u2019s not been at the forefront of anyone\u2019s thoughts, really.\u00a0 And yet, bananas are the highest-selling and most-produced fruit, reaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13491,"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":[6571,6572,6573,6574,6575,6576,6577,6578,6579,6580,6581,6582,6583,6584,3906,6585,6461,3615,6586,6587,6588,957,6589,6590,6591],"class_list":["post-13490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-banagua","tag-banana","tag-banana-cream","tag-banana-desserts","tag-banana-flavor","tag-banana-milk","tag-banana-nostalgia","tag-banana-pudding","tag-banana-skincare","tag-banana-supply-crisis","tag-banana-trend","tag-banana-water","tag-coconut-water-alternative","tag-dunkin-banana","tag-food-and-beverage-trends","tag-food-culture","tag-food-trends-2026","tag-functional-food","tag-ingredient-trends","tag-matcha","tag-natural-sweetness","tag-plant-based","tag-protein-trends","tag-rhode-lip-treatment","tag-starbucks-banana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490","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=13490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}