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Ramen Elevation

Brands leverage post-purchase habits by elevating instant noodle ingredients

Implications - By transforming the experience of instant noodles with upscale flavorful additions, brands are accelerating the post-purchase customer practice of adding fresh ingredients by elevating the product altogether. This shift speaks to the opportunity for brands to accommodate new consumer behaviors in a way that champions and encourages such post-purchase habits in a way that also supports sales.
Workshop Question - What post-purchase practice can you incorporate into your product offering in order to highlight such uses to new customers?
Trend Themes
1. Upscale Instant Noodles - Brands are elevating their prepackaged instant noodle flavors to create unique and upscale product offerings, showcasing the ability to create more than just simple flavors with affordable options.
2. Gourmet Convenience - Collaborations between gourmet restaurants and food and beverage producers are on the rise, with many businesses looking to bring affordable luxury to convenience and quick meal options.
3. Tailored Convenience - Designing food and drink packages to meet the needs of specific target markets creates disruptors in the industry, enticing consumers to try new flavors or types of meals.
Industry Implications
1. Packaged Food - Brands that produce packaged food and drink items are able to innovate in new ways, transforming prepackaged options in order to offer more unique and premium product choices for consumers.
2. Foodservice - Collaborations between gourmet restaurants and food and beverage producers that result in packaged or convenience food offerings demonstrate disruption for foodservice industry norms, including how luxury foods are offered to consumers.
3. Design - Designers who consider specific demographics when working on food and drink product packages offer a valuable contribution to altering traditional design approaches in the industry.
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Featured Examples

Instant Black Ramen Noodles
Instant Black Ramen Noodles
The Squid Ink Black Seafood Cup Noodles Have a Dark Broth
Consumers are intrigued by unexpected food colors more than ever as seen, which is something the new Squid Ink Black Seafood Cup Noodles black ramen look to help play on. The noodles consist of the... MORE
Upscale Instant Noodles
Upscale Instant Noodles
This New Cup Noodle Soup Flavor Tastes of Abalone and Oyster Stew
Part of the appeal of Cup Noodle soup varieties is just how affordable they are. To prove to consumers that it is capable of making more than just simple flavors, Cup Noodle is now introducing the... MORE
Gourmet Noodle Cups
Gourmet Noodle Cups
Nissin's Newest Cup of Noodles is a Convenient Michelin-Starred Meal
Tokyo’s Nakiryu is a Michelin-starred ramen restaurant that is now teaming up with Nissin Foods for the Signature Restaurant Series. As part of this collaboration, consumers are now able to... MORE
Crouton-Topped Soup Cups
Crouton-Topped Soup Cups
Bounissimo's Individual Meal Cups Pair Soup with Croutons
In the same way that many single-serve yogurt cups have separate attachments for crunchy toppings like fruit or chocolate pieces, these meal packages from the Mogilev Milk Factory pair soup with... MORE
Meat-Filled Noodle Cups
Meat-Filled Noodle Cups
Nissin's Special Cup Noodle Featues Ten Times the Meat Cubes Than Normal
As part of the celebrations for the 45th birthday of its ramen noodles, Cup Noodle created a limited-edition flavor called the ‘Cup Noodle Big Mystery Meat Festival.’ While small meat... MORE
Ramen Clam Chowders
Ramen Clam Chowders
Ippudo is Now Producing a Limited-Edition Clam Chowder Ramen
Japanese ramen chain Ippudo has never served clam chowder ramen except at its New York location, but this is about to change for those in Asia. Rather than serving this unique soup hybrid as a new... MORE

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