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Morrisons, GLP-1 and the New Logic of Food Retail

Morrisons, GLP-1 and the New Logic of Food Retail

The collaboration between Morrisons and Applied Nutrition at the end of 2025 marked a subtle but meaningful inflection point for…

Fish Without Fillets: Why Restaurants Are Moving Beyond the Prime Cut

For decades, the fillet has dominated how fish appears on restaurant menus. Clean, portionable and familiar, it became the default…

Weekly Trend Roundup: from Zero-Proof Pairings to Onion Cup Dumpling Flights

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the hottest food and restaurant trends right now. Every Friday, we scan what’s gaining…

When Grocerants Eat Takeout: How Restaurants Stay Special

Premium supermarket food has quietly redefined what “takeout” means. What was once a binary choice between cooking at home or…

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Monthly Food Trends January 2026

Monthly Food Trends January 2026

January always arrives with two voices in its mouth. One says reset, because the calendar flips and suddenly every morning…

Monthly Food Trends December 2025

Monthly Food Trends December 2025

December is the month where food culture splits into two lanes: comfort-first tradition and attention-first spectacle. What wins isn’t always…

Monthly Food Trends November 2025

Monthly Food Trends November 2025

November 2025’s food trends spanned the spectrum from festive fun to futuristic controversy. This month’s search data shows people obsessing…

Monthly Food Trends October 2025

Monthly Food Trends October 2025

October’s food trends are a vibrant mix of seasonal traditions and viral phenomena. As fall settles in (and spring blooms…

Monthly Food Trends September 2025

Monthly Food Trends September 2025

While August leaned into quirky memes and nostalgic throwbacks, September’s trends are equal parts comforting tradition and digital buzz. This…

The Day After the Party: The Unofficial Food Rules of Post-Holiday Hangovers

The Day After the Party: The Unofficial Food Rules of Post-Holiday Hangovers

December 26 and January 1 are not festive food holidays. They are recovery days. Across the United States, these dates exist in a strange culinary…
The Frosted Berry Effect: How Cranberries Turned Into a Holiday Trend

The Frosted Berry Effect: How Cranberries Turned Into a Holiday Trend

Popping cranberries, often called candied cranberries, have become one of the most recognizable TikTok food trends of the pre-Christmas season. Their sugar-frosted surface, deep red…
How Bionic Frog Became the Blueprint for Modern Wine Trends

How Bionic Frog Became the Blueprint for Modern Wine Trends

Bionic Frog from Cayuse Vineyards is one of the most distinctive examples of how a wine can move from regional curiosity to global cult phenomenon.…
From Street Bite to Trend Machine: The New Sandwich Era

From Street Bite to Trend Machine: The New Sandwich Era

Sandwiches have evolved far beyond their origins as a simple, practical meal eaten on the go. Today, they represent a global food movement that bridges…
Tea’s Next Wave: How a Classic Drink Becomes a Global Trend Force

Tea’s Next Wave: How a Classic Drink Becomes a Global Trend Force

Tea is entering a new era of cultural relevance, driven by a blend of wellness aspirations, premium expectations and sensory exploration. Once primarily associated with…
The New Juice Wave: Health, Hybridization and Premium Growth

The New Juice Wave: Health, Hybridization and Premium Growth

The global juice market is expanding at a moderate pace, yet the direction of growth is changing far more than the speed. Instead of large…

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The Carbonation Revolution: Why Gen-Z Chooses Sparkling Coffee

The Carbonation Revolution: Why Gen-Z Chooses Sparkling Coffee

Something fundamental has shifted in coffee culture, and it is not subtle. In cafés across Berlin, Copenhagen, Zurich, Seoul, New York, and Tokyo, younger customers…
Flavor Shock Culture: How Generation Alpha Is Expanding the Taste Frontier

Flavor Shock Culture: How Generation Alpha Is Expanding the Taste Frontier

A bag of banana-flavoured potato chips sits on a supermarket shelf in China. The packaging is bright yellow. A smiling Minion stares back, cheerful and…
The Great Bread Pivot: The Cultural Repositioning of Bread

The Great Bread Pivot: The Cultural Repositioning of Bread

For decades, bread was the most invisible element of the sandwich. It mattered, but only insofar as it did not interfere. It held fillings together,…
Top 5 Asian Food Trends This Month: from Robot Waiters to Sesame Tofu

Top 5 Asian Food Trends This Month: from Robot Waiters to Sesame Tofu

Top 5 Asian food trends from the last 30 days: Robot Waiters, Tofu Mama (豆腐媽媽), Gochujang Eggs, Edamame Kun, Sesame Tofu. Ranked by Trend Score.
Shared Food: The Dining Trend We Keep Announcing, But Never Practice

Shared Food: The Dining Trend We Keep Announcing, But Never Practice

For more than a decade, shared food has been framed as an inevitability. The story was always confident, often moralising, and rarely questioned: diners were…
Weekly Trend Roundup: from Fibermaxxing to Kitchen Live Streams

Weekly Trend Roundup: from Fibermaxxing to Kitchen Live Streams

This weekly roundup lists the Top 10 trends published in the last 7 days, ranked by Trend Score. Fibermaxxing (Trend Score: 46) Fiber is becoming…
“What I Eat in a Day”: Why We Can’t Stop Watching Other People Eat

“What I Eat in a Day”: Why We Can’t Stop Watching Other People Eat

At first glance, “What I eat in a day” content looks almost aggressively mundane. A sequence of meals, drinks, and snacks, calmly presented from morning…
Inside Food Influencers: Psychology, Power, and What Managers Must Know

Inside Food Influencers: Psychology, Power, and What Managers Must Know

Food influencers sit at a strange intersection of culture, commerce, and psychology. They are tastemakers without formal authority, critics without institutions, and entrepreneurs whose primary…
Speakeasy Food Trucks: When Secrecy Becomes the Main Ingredient

Speakeasy Food Trucks: When Secrecy Becomes the Main Ingredient

The idea of the speakeasy has always thrived on secrecy, exclusivity, and the thrill of being “in the know.” In recent years, this logic has…
The Death of the Business Lunch — And What Comes Next

The Death of the Business Lunch — And What Comes Next

The global lunch business in gastronomy has undergone a silent but profound transformation. What once was a stable, almost automatic revenue window has become volatile,…
Ingestible Beauty: Can Skin Really Be Built from the Inside?

Ingestible Beauty: Can Skin Really Be Built from the Inside?

For decades, the beauty industry focused almost exclusively on what could be applied to the skin. Creams, serums, and treatments promised to smooth, firm, and…
Weekly Trend Roundup: from Nutella Rice to Black-Eyed Peas

Weekly Trend Roundup: from Nutella Rice to Black-Eyed Peas

This weekly roundup lists the Top 10 trends published in the last 7 days, ranked by Trend Score. Nutella Rice (Trend Score: 42) Nutella Rice…