Nutrition Insight’s year-end review of 2025 spotlights major developments shaping the nutrition and food industry — from AI-powered tools transforming research and product innovation to the growing impact of GLP-1 drugs on weight-management strategies and personalized nutrition markets. The piece highlights trends in gut microbiome research, food security challenges, and the push toward evidence-led precision nutrition. Within this landscape, it features the Innovation Institute for Food and Health (IIFH) and its Discovery Forum on the GLP-1 era, where leaders explored how metabolic hormones like GLP-1 are changing people’s relationship with food and inspiring new waves of innovation in food for health. IIFH faculty emphasized a “tectonic shift” in nutrition driven by both scientific advances and evolving consumer needs, underscoring the importance of integrating nutrition with emerging therapies and technology to support long-term wellness.
