Articles Tagged with ''global flavor''

Any culinarian can tell you, if you want to move an item or entice customers with a new product, bring cheese into the picture and consumer interest immediately shoots up.

Dotty Griffith takes a look ahead to find attitudes and lifestyles that influence food choices and some of the flavors, ingredients, technologies, and styles that will manifest in 2020 and beyond.

In the 33rd year of Fi Europe & Ni, 1,700 exhibitors presented more than 15,000 ingredients and a wide range of related services – from processing and packaging technology to contract manufacturing. T

Soup Explorers soups are crafted in partnership with some of Chicago’s most beloved restaurants. The Vietnamese Phởs were created hand-in-hand with Mary Nguyen Aregoni and Theresa Nguyen, the restaurateurs behind Chicago’s acclaimed Saigon Sisters® Restaurants.

The natural ingredients supplier, which is behind four of Europe’s most innovative fruit and vegetable processing businesses, launched its “Taste of the East” range as well as a new higher fiber recipe during FIE, Dec. 3-5, in Paris.  

To help restaurant operators stay competitive and meet this growing demand, US Foods collaborated with nationally recognized chefs, Chef Diana Dávila, Chef Thai Dang and Chef Sameh Wadi to advise on many of the globally inspired products featured in the new Fall Scoop line up.

More than any single seasonal flavor trend, it's really the overarching globalization of flavor that is turning the food industry upside down, ushering in a whole new approach to meeting consumer demand.

Before this year arrived, there were many signs pointing to global flavors as a key, dominant trend for 2019. And of course, sauces, spreads, dressings and condiments are the leading ambassadors of new flavors.

While Sriracha, gochujang and harissa continue to find favor with consumers and operators, the foodservice community awaits the next big global hit to transform menus.