From the viral deviled egg flights to videos showcasing the best ways to eat an entire cucumber — 2024 was filled with a new wave of innovative food trends.
As we begin the new year, those in the food and beverage industry are highlighting some incoming trends that they feel consumers may lean toward.
Mia Hackney, a chef assistant for Vitamix in Olmsted Falls, Ohio, said a major component of her job is to test recipes for the company, with focusing on upcoming food trends being one aspect of that process.
The Vitamix team gets together to research trends they’ve seen on social media, she said, or even just personally from their families, along with brainstorming what they’d like to see come out into the food and restaurant industry in the next year or so.
“Then we will find recipes, write our recipes, find recipes from our database from years past, and either update them or change them to make them more appropriate for the trends now,” Hackney said.
“It’s kind of like music, where you can write your own original song, but it’s going to have a lot of the same lyrics, the same kind of beat, or even some of the same instruments as other songs before it.”