Food & Drink Trends 2018

The Hottest Trends for 2018.

New Ingredients

Global Flavours

Think BlackNew Covent Garden Market has predicted that black will be the new purple for produce in 2018. Give one of these a try:

The New Plant Based Proteins

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Food & Tech

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High Tech Foods

Tech advancements have allowed scientists to

grow a burger in a petri dish

Image recognition

In a connected world obsessed with food photography, AI will

become commonplace.

Consumers will be able to point their

phones at their plates to discover all the

facts about their food such as ingredients

and calories.

Technofoodology

Just Eat has teamed up with

Amazon's groundbreaking

new Echo speaker to let you re-order and check where your meal is, all with your voice.

Eating Out

Follow the Fire

Wood-fired cooking is set to be one of 2018’s hottest trends

London is getting its first ever dumpling festival in 2018.

Dumplings

Dining experiences

National Theatre audiences in

London will enjoy a three course fine-

dining meal on stage while the play

(a production of Network starring Bryan Cranston)

takes place around them.

Bottoms Up

A trio of trendy drinks

High Tech Cocktails

Look out for immersive, multi-

sensory drinks experiences in 2018 – taking

inspiration from the well

established food theatre trend.

Trendy Teetotalism

The global non-alcoholic beverage market is projected to reach $1.6 trillion

by 2025, up from just over $967 billion in 2016,

according to a 2017 report from Grand

View Research.

All About Health

Healthy Options

Veganomics

Co-founder of the charity Veganuary,

Jane Land, said 167,000 people put

forward their names for January 2018

compared to 60,000 for January

2017.

Gut friendly food

2018 may be the year gut-friendly Kombucha – the

once obscure fermented tea drink

- becomes mainstream. Look out for small, craft brewers dedicated

to creating seasonal ‘booch’ varieties.