The two most noteworthy trends in for 2016 have nothing to do with food
Big disrupters are a revolution in high-speed food delivery to homes and offices, and a conversation regarding tipping and pay disparities. Cleansing menus of additives won’t be enough. Why there’s a new obsession with fried chicken, plus at the end of the article you can find the strongest keywords when it comes to food and beverage for the year ahead.
Explore the most significant predictions about the hottest global food and beverage trends 2016 follow.
3. Is Pasta an Endangered Species?
We're not joking! In the last five years pasta sales dropped 8% in Australia, 13% in Europe ... 25% in Italy. It isn't a crisis here yet but pasta's down 6% as people focus on proteins and shed carbs ... or shun gluten ... or subscribe to Paelo dining.
Even carboholics have more nutritious alternatives ... quinoa, chickpeas, lentils, spelt, barley, chia. So it looks like a trend.
Vegetable spiralizers are selling like, well, hotcakes. Chefs will experiment with vegetables ribbons -- zucchini, asparagus, beets, sweet potatoes for example -- replacing pasta.
And look for pastas offering a full serving of vegetables ... purees of spinach, tomatoes, carrots incorporated into the dough (photo, right). Maybe spaghetti squash will have its limelight moment (see Vegetables, next).
