As consumers embark on exotic vacations to tropical regions of the world, they encounter a number of new foods and beverages. But when consumers return home, their tastes for those tropical sensations are not always as far removed as their recent holidays.
In Beverage Industry’s 2012 New Product Development Survey, 14 percent of respondents selected tropical fruit as an anticipated best-selling flavor for 2012, making it No. 6 overall on the list. Twenty-eight percent of respondents reported tropical fruit as a top flavor used in 2011 in the same survey.