Case Study  ·  Trend Monitoring

Watching the science on sweeteners.

A large food and beverage company needed to know how views on stevia, erythritol and monk fruit were shifting. We built an ingredient tracker and dashboard and updated it every three months with sentiment from science and media.

The Client

The client is a large company in the food and beverage industry. It wanted to spot trends that could shape its products over the next 5 years.

The Challenge

Sentiment shifts.
Catch them early.

Prescouter was asked to monitor sentiment changes for stevia, erythritol and monk fruit in scientific publications, news and press releases to reveal trends affecting new product development.

  • Science

    Scientific publications

    What researchers are finding.

  • Media

    News and press releases

    How the story is being told.

  • Trends

    Five-year outlook

    What could shape new products.

Our Approach

Turning articles into a living dashboard.

Dashboard build
3sweeteners tracked

Build the tracker

We used the client’s prior research to set up a dashboard for continuous ingredient tracking.

Ongoing monitoring
3months between updates

Watch the shifts

We captured changes in sentiment across scientific and media sources and reported every quarter.

Article analysis
2research phases

Score each article

Each article got a sentiment score, rationale, products, geography, study design and funding details.

The Outcome

Sentiment data that shapes new products.

Prescouter built an ingredient tracker and dashboard covering sentiment, scientific and news activity, trends and impactful publications for three natural sweeteners. The analysis also pointed to future trends and helped the client make strategic ingredient decisions for new products.

  • Tracker

    3 sweeteners monitored

    Stevia, erythritol and monk fruit.

  • Cadence

    Updates every 3 months

    Capturing shifts as they happen.

  • Impact

    Product decisions

    Shaping new product development.

Ingredient reputations can turn quickly. Continuous monitoring lets teams adjust before a headline becomes a problem.

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