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Article: Austria's Young Consumers Want Fun, Functional Foods.(Brief Article)
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- AgExporter
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- February 1, 2001
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Consumers will no longer settle for bland, boring health foods. They want bright colors, fascinating flavors and nothing ordinary. Nowhere is this more the case than in Austria, where young people drive the demand for functional foods. In fact, health foods and related products may soon make up a full 20 percent of the country's entire food market.
"Austria has the twelfth-highest per capita income in the world, and that's one reason functional foods are gaining ground," said Allan Mustard, deputy chief of FAS' attache services for international support. Mustard recently returned to Washington, D.C. after serving as agricultural counselor at the U.S. Embassy in ...