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4 Food & Nutrition Trends I Spotted at Newtopia
This week, I stepped outside my usual diabetes and clinical world and spent a day at Newtopia Now, a conference focused on emerging brands across functional wellness, sustainability, food and beverage, and clean beauty. Think 350+ brands hoping to become the next big thing on grocery store shelves. As a dietitian working in metabolic health, I obviously walked around looking at everything through a nutrition lens. Here are a few trends that were hard to miss, and where I think they fit into the cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) health space.
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3 Nutrition Trends Every Cardiometabolic Dietitian Should Watch in 2026
Nutrition trends come and go. As a registered dietitian and diabetes care and education specialist, I don’t pay much attention to trends simply because they’re popular. I’m interested in the ones backed by science, driven by changing consumer behavior, and beginning to show up in my patients’ shopping carts and questions during counseling sessions. Over the past several months, I’ve been following many of the products and innovations emerging across the nutrition industry, including those showcased at Natural Products Expo West. It’s been interesting to see which ideas appear to have staying power and which are likely to be passing…