Innovative Foods on the Horizon

Innovative Foods on the Horizon

Nowadays the FreshProduce markets are expanding, as their customers are becoming increasingly interested in buying organic and exotic ingredients. As a result, the fruit and vegetable importers are trying to gain access to more unusual products from all around the world and deliver them to local grocery stores. The wide variety of foods on offer opens a pathway to culinary experiments and readiness to try new flavors.
So, what's on the menu for 2023?
According to the WholeFoods market, these are the 3 hottest food trends: 

1. Vegetable snacks 
A great idea to combine one’s craving for snacks with a healthy lifestyle. Time to add a kick to the usual carrot sticks or cucumber slices as a lunch add-on or party finger food. Now there’s a new range of such crispy, salt-and-spice dusted nibbles available. You might have already sampled kale or beetroot chips, but how about some shiitake mushrooms or broccoli & parmesan snacks or tomato & garlic puffs? The vegetables are fried at a low temperature in a vacuum, which makes them crunchy and allows to keep their vitamins intact.

2. Sunflower and Sesame Seeds 
With many people suffering from nut allergies, sunflower and sesame-seed based products like peanut butter alternatives, muesli, granola bars, vegan ice-cream and even sunflower or sesame-seed milk are growing in popularity. There are cafés that are already selling sunflower-milk lattes! 

3. Hibiscus 
Dried flowers of hibiscus have been beloved as a tea base in Asia, Africa and Latin America for centuries. That high in vitamin C, ruby-colored shrub will be also included in different kinds of foods and drinks in the near future, such as hibiscus-based snow cones, popsicles or sodas flavored with mint, ginger or lemongrass.

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