Each year, consumer market intelligence platform Mintel reports on the trends in the food and drink industry for the year ahead. These trends are not only indicative of changing tastes but also reflect the growing importance of health, technological innovation, and sustainability in the industry.
Explore some social justice, animal welfare and environmental stewardship considerations of food purchasing and production.
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Sustainability seems to be the word on everyone’s lips right now. And, you’ll want to lick yours clean after dining at our city’s most conscious and creative eateries.
Ahead of World Food Day, we’re premiering a new documentary film, Food for the Future (#Food4theFuture). It documents the world’s current food revolution.
Restaurants produce millions of tons of waste every year. Much of it is actually avoidable and it also costs the restaurant industry hundreds of millions of euros. One restaurant in Finland aims to reduce its waste output to zero. They do this through creative cooking and upcycling. So how about an ice cream from left over beer hops? We went to Finland to talk to chef Albert Franch Sunyer and check out some zero waste dishes.
Ethical eating doesn't necessarily mean heading to the health shop and spend hundreds in organic produce and activated charcoal almonds. We've seen many times products with thousands of miles in shelves of so-called 'wholefood stores' - organic quinoa from Bolivia, argan oil from Morocco, etc.
As the year draws to a close, we’re looking ahead to what we can expect to see from restaurants in 2024, and we’re feeling very optimistic about what the next 12 months might bring – in terms of more planet-friendly kitchen practices, and as diners eager to see more innovation on menus.
top 12 sustainable food trends which I think will come to the fore during 2024. These are not exhaustive and are based on my own insights and recent conversations with a wide range of businesses, farming groups, academics and civil society organisations working on sustainable food systems.
We all know what food is, but what about ethics? The word may sound rather forbidding or only relevant to experts or the specially committed, but in fact we all regularly make ethical decisions about food.
Food ethics or ethical eating is perhaps best defined as being “about the principles that dictate what counts as acceptable treatment of others in relation to food”
