Canned Specialty Foods (American Industry Overview)

This paper provides an overview of the canned specialty foods industry in the United States, such as baby foods, ethnic and national specialties and soups.

American Industry Overview: Canned Specialties

This category covers establishments primarily engaged in canning specialty products, such as baby foods, nationality specialty foods, and soups, except seafood.

Industry Snapshot

Cans have unquestioned advantages as food containers. Retailers can display them easily and attractively, and the contents are protected from contamination because they are hermetically sealed. Cans also prevent undesirable fluctuations in moisture content; the absorption of oxygen, gases, and undesirable odors; and exposure to light, and enable high-speed filling, sealing, and casing.

Canned foods, an $8.7 billion industry in 2010, suffered a decline at the beginning of the 1990s as consumers...

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