Home cooking and value-seeking reshape demand in 2025
Cooking ingredients and meals in Thailand posted growth in both current value and volume terms in 2025, supported by a shift back to home cooking as foodservice became less affordable. Price sensitivity strengthened, lifting promotion-driven purchasing and accelerating uptake of private label as consumers sought credible lower-cost options across core categories. At the same time, time-poor urban households continued to support demand for ready meals and recipe sauces, reinforcing convenience as a structural driver. Health and wellness remained influential, pushing brands towards lower sodium and sugar, cleaner labels and more functional positioning. Over the forecast period, volume growth is set to remain supported by at-home consumption, while value growth will hinge on players balancing affordability with health-led and flavour-led innovation.
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Overview:
Understand the latest market trends and future growth opportunities for the Cooking Ingredients and Meals industry in Thailand with research from Euromonitor International's team of in-country analysts – experts by industry and geographic specialisation.
Key trends are clearly and succinctly summarised alongside the most current research data available. Understand and assess competitive threats and plan corporate strategy with our qualitative analysis, insight and confident growth projections.
Data and analysis in this report provides further detailed coverage dedicated to a comprehensive range of core packaged food categories.
If you're in the Cooking Ingredients and Meals industry in Thailand, our research will help you to make informed, intelligent decisions; to recognise and profit from opportunity, or to offer resilience amidst market uncertainty.
The Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Thailand report includes:
- Analysis of key supply-side and demand trends
- Detailed segmentation of international and local products
- Historic volume and value sizes, company and brand market shares
- Five year forecasts of market trends and market growth
- Robust and transparent research methodology, conducted in-country
This report answers:
- What is the market size of Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Thailand?
- Which are the leading brands in Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Thailand?
- How are products distributed in Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Thailand?
- How is the rise of e-commerce and/or the expansion of modern grocery retail impacting traditional retail?
- What are the key health and wellness concerns driving, or challenging, sales in Cooking Ingredients and Meals?
- How significant are vegan and vegetarian dietary requirements in determining sales growth in Thailand?
- How has COVID-19 impacted consumer demand? To what extent have lockdown, home seclusion and stockpiling boosted sales? Will the longer term economic repercussions of the pandemic stimulate or suppress future growth?
- Where is future growth expected to be most dynamic?
- How significant will values-based claims, such as sustainability and ethical labelling, be in supporting future growth and brand equity?
Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Thailand
Home cooking and value-seeking reshape demand in 2025
KEY DATA FINDINGS
Affordability as central concern for Thai consumers in 2025
Convenience trend supports sales of ready meals and recipe sauces
Prevailing health and wellness trends remain highly impactful
Forecast period to see further growth driven by convenient and affordable formats
Players likely to focus on differentiation and health positioning
Input costs and inflationary pressure remain challenges
Leading players benefit from high brand equity
Home-cooking trend drives growth for players in spreads and sauces
Hypermarkets attract cost-conscious consumers in 2025
Convenience demands drives growth in specific channels
COUNTRY REPORTS DISCLAIMER
Edible Oils in Thailand
KEY DATA FINDINGS
Shortages and health-led switching shape edible oils in 2025
Edible oils sees growth throughout category in both volume and value terms in 2025
Rising health awareness supports progress for healthy variants
Stable growth predicted for edible oils in Thailand
Health trends will boost appeal of specific oils
Sustainability in sourcing and packaging comes further to the fore
Morakot brand benefits from aggressive marketing campaigns
Gaysorn drives robust growth for Patum Vegetable Oil
Neighbourhood stores remain favoured shopping destinations
Hypermarkets benefit from convenience appeal
Meals and Soups in Thailand
KEY DATA FINDINGS
Ready meals gain relevance as households trade down from foodservice in 2025
Frozen ready meals continue to attract through convenience and affordability
Shelf stable ready meals benefits from investment in innovation
Frozen and chilled ready meals to drive future growth for meals and soups in Thailand
Players innovate in line with health and wellness trends
Rising interest in plant-based proteins offers growth opportunities
CPRAM leads with private label lines
Charoen Pokphand invests more in health positioning
Consumers choose convenience stores for easy access
Convenience channel boosts appeal with home delivery
Sauces, Dips and Condiments in Thailand
KEY DATA FINDINGS
Pantry staples support category resilience in 2025
Home-cooking trend ensures stable growth in 2025
Expanding health awareness boosts interest in salads, supporting sales of salad dressings
Home cooking and cultural love of spicy food will fuel growth in forecast period
Clean-label products to see higher demand
Polarisation in packaging formats set to become more pronounced
Ajinomoto Sales leads thanks to shift away from foodservice
CP Group extends into cooking and table sauces
Hypermarkets channel proves resilient despite rising competition from online platforms
Proximity proves key to convenience channel expansion
Sweet Spreads in Thailand
KEY DATA FINDINGS
At-home snacking and cleaner labels support sweet spreads growth in 2025
Jams and preserves continues to dominate sweet spreads in Thailand
Health trends boost honey and nut and seed based spreads
Persistent shift away from foodservice will support sweet spreads sales in forecast period
Functionality-based innovation anticipated for nut and seed based spreads
Brands likely to strengthen emotional connection with consumer base
Local players gain ground through use of local ingredients
Tasty Herb focuses on broad flavour array
Hypermarkets remain favourite stores for sweet spread purchases
Small local grocers rises as consumers become more cost conscious
COUNTRY REPORTS DISCLAIMER
The following categories and subcategories are included:
Cooking Ingredients and Meals
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- Olive Oil
- Corn Oil
- Palm Oil
- Rapeseed Oil
- Soy Oil
- Sunflower Oil
- Other Edible Oil
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- Dried Ready Meals
- Shelf Stable Ready Meals
- Chilled Ready Meals
- Frozen Ready Meals
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- Dry Soup
- Shelf Stable Soup
- Chilled Soup
- Frozen Soup
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- Chilled Pizza
- Frozen Pizza
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- Meal Kits
- Quick Recipe Kits
- Chilled Lunch Kits
- Prepared Salads
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- Liquid Stocks and Fonds
- Stock Cubes and Powders
- Gravy Cubes, Powders and Pots
- Monosodium Glutamate
- Herbs and Spices
- Tomato Pastes and Purées
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- Liquid Recipe Sauces (excl pasta sauces)
- Dry Recipe Sauces
- Pasta Sauces
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- Barbecue Sauces
- Fish Sauces
- Ketchup
- Mayonnaise
- Mustard
- Oyster Sauces
- Salad Dressings
- Soy Sauces
- Chili Sauces
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- Dips
- Yeast-based Spreads
- Pickled Products
- Other Sauces and Condiments
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- Honey
- Chocolate Spreads
- Jams and Preserves
- Nut and Seed Based Spreads
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