These days, Chinese consumers notice some popular beverages like Master Kong and PepsiCo have taken on a new look, adopting only simple and transparent PET bottles and no more colorful and fancy labels on them. As the pursuit of sustainability and carbon neutrality becoming one of the main themes in China's F&B industry, from the early efforts on abandoning plastic bag to using paper straws, then to today's label free bandwagon, the industry has been actively groping the next move towards greener packaging.

Challenged by the prevailing sugar reduction wave, China's confectionery market struggles to revive stagnant volume. Notwithstanding, the gummy sector in China drives off in a different direction. Playing the dual role, functional gummy is seen as a snack with a “health halo” and has managed to buck the headwinds. Functional gummy, whose form is not powder or pill, smashes consumers' stereotype towards health supplements by distinguishing itself from drugs. On the other hand, designed as a snack, functional gummy is a better solution to the demands of supplementing nutrients in daily life regardless of scenarios.

As the biggest developing country and also the biggest carbon emitter, China has taken a landmark step towards the right direction, pledging to hit the peak of carbon emissions by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2060. Food industry is not only a significant pillar of China's national economy, but an industry with high energy consumption and high emission. Against this background, what can food industry do to be carbon neutral?