The Covid-19 pandemic has altered every aspect of life, including the eating habits of people in the UK and all over the world. But it’s not only the pandemic that led people to make some important dietary shifts. Our food predilections evolve along with our cultures, lifestyles, and social order.
In today’s article, we’ll take a look at the top five food trends that are projected to dominate the UK and global food industry in the near future.
Organic Food
In tough times, people tend to remember how fragile their health and wellbeing are and start reconsidering their eating habits.
Organic foods are not just a fad that helps people obsessed with their health maintain the illusion of living a rewarding planet-friendly life. Organic foods are chosen by millions of people for their transparent supply chain story, high-quality ingredients, a whole host of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients, and being less hard on the environment. Spinach, kale, collard, strawberries, apples, grapes, and raw honey UK is so famed for are those foods that are best to buy organic, no matter the extra cost.
Today, more and more Gen Zs and a vast majority of millennials opt for organic products that are grown without pesticides and herbicides in sustainable areas. And this trend is projected to grow in the future, as does the organic food industry.
Chickpeas
If chickpeas are a staple of your diet, get excited. Previously, you used to see chickpeas in cans and turned in hummus. Now this truly fantastic product can be used in anything from pasta to chips to cereal.
This trend excites lots of people because it makes it much easier to replace processed carbohydrate consumption from traditional foods like potato chips and pasta with a slow-digesting whole grain that’s more satisfying. Besides, it also helps keep tabs on your blood glucose level.
Today, you can find both desi and kabuli chickpeas on the shelves of your local supermarkets. What’s more, you can indulge your taste buds with black peas, Britain’s traditional chickpeas alternative famed for its firm texture and nutty flavour.
Upcycled Food
Using the ingredients that would have otherwise ended up in the dumpster is a very noble sustainability trend that has swept the world since the onslaught of the pandemic. In other words, upcycled food is made from waste you normally toss in the trash, including leftover stale bread, lettuce leafs, peels, eggshells, and much more.
Upcycled food is a very important trend that promises to dominate 2021 and beyond. Just imagine a world where people can repurpose the leftovers and food waste that now cost more than 1 billion in revenue losses and thus alleviate negative impacts on the environment. This can become a reality very soon!
Support the upcycled food industry by purchasing veggie-based and fiber-rich chips made from leftover juice pulp, delicious banana-based cookie brittle, and craft beers where a good deal of malted barley is replaced with stale bread.
Plant-Based Meat
Plant-based burgers aren’t a new trend whatsoever. But this trend doesn’t show any signs of going anywhere anytime soon. Experts are convinced that in the upcoming years meat prices will go up due to the lower consumption of this product and consequent decrease in its production. What’s more, it’s predicted that by 2040 there will be much fewer carnivores among us and more than 50% of meat products will be replaced by plant-based analogues approximating flavour and appearance of natural meat.
Today, plant-based meat substitutes are riding the crest of popularity, as more and more people make a choice in favour of a more ecologically-friendly and humane alternative to meat. The plant-based meat industry is poised to grow even more and win over new adherents in the years to come. And the UK market will see the emergence of new meat analogues and substitutes that won’t be inferior to their full-fledged meat counterparts in terms of nutrients, vitamins, and energy value.
Globalization of Taste
Some 10 years ago, such products as quinoa, chia seeds, and aquafaba were unheard of in the UK. Today, these and lots of other exotic products are well sought-after. As consumers become more cosmopolitan and diverse in their gastronomic predilections, markets get flooded by exotic products from Colombia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Hawaii, Costa Rica, and other remote and hard to reach regions.
To continue to satisfy customers’ demands, brands and businesses employ modern logistics techniques to supply international foods to the UK markets and thus promote what is metaphorically referred to as the globalization of taste buds.
They are only some of the most prominent and game-changing trends you want to watch today. With consumer behaviour changing continuously, new trends are bound to emerge and reshape the UK and global food industries. So, stay tuned.
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