New Product Proposals - 2026-05-18

coffee-substitutes

Proposed category: Instant coffee substitutes (chicory and cereal coffee beverage powders). Evidence: winiarska-mieczan2022-cd-pb-instant-coffee-poland from raw/manual-fetch/seasonal-geographic-variance/auto-fetched/gap-coffee-cd_2022_10-1007-s12011-022-03129-2.pdf. Suggested HMT&C category: Category 5 beverages. Primary metals of concern: Cd and Pb. Rationale: Winiarska-Mieczan et al. 2022 measured chicory and cereal coffee substitutes separately from instant coffee; substitutes had the highest Cd means while coffee had the highest Pb mean, so these are not just flavor variants of the existing coffee row. Karen decision: pending.