These days my pack is filled with a small container of olive oil, dried herbs, salt and pepper and fresh fruit rather than packets of dehydrated beans and rice or bags of quick-cooking oatmeal flavored with desiccated strawberries.

NPR: Forget The Granola: Camp Cooking Goes Gourmet

Some farmers are successfully growing black pepper, pineapples and passion fruit.

ECONOMIST: A crop that refuses to die

Recent crowd pleasers include korokke (Japanese-style sweet potato cakes), casado (a Costa Rican meal of steak, rice, black beans, plantains and salad) and chicama cerviche de mero (grouper cerviche with passion fruit, japanese cucumber, red pepper, guava, red onion and tiger milk).

BBC: Innovative cuisine pops up in Buenos Aires

While Coke, Pepsi, and Dr Pepper Snapple have all aggressively expanded their portfolios to include faster-growing products like sports drinks and fruit juices, a prolonged drop in U.S. soda revenues would represent a serious blow.

WSJ: Fizzy Drinks Revenue Goes From Flat to Sour

Dr Pepper Snapple, makers of Mott's juices and applesauce, said it has considered making a squeezable fruit product but has no immediate plans to launch one.

WSJ: PepsiCo's Tropolis Fruit Puree an Attempt to 'Snackify' Drinks

Gatorade competes in the wider US fruit juices, sports drinks and energy drinks market against players like Coca Cola, Kraft Foods, Dr Pepper Snapple and National Beverage.

FORBES: Gatorade Set To Growl But It's Only A Whisper In The Swamp For Pepsi