What 2024 year will bring to the plate? Here are the six future trends in food for Australia based on my industry experience. Let's see if you are ready?
As a food photographer and food stylist my work is is not only a final finish that you can see on the picture that would involve create food shoots, research props, capture mouth watering pictures with retouch twist. Part of my work is also to understand and follow food industry trends. In this post, I'll share with you, my list of food trends for 2024. The list has also some expectations from food and eating habits in the future.
my list of Food trends for 2024
1) Sourdough pasta Sourdough - this is life, we all know it. Glad to see more people every year in Australia appreciate a real taste. Sourdough is the king now in coffee shops, restaurants, pizza shops where you can easily find sourdough options. Groceries have a huge assortment with products where the ingredients list highlight a sourdough starter. Now, there is even more space for another food product with sourdough. The year 2024 will be a time for sourdough pasta!
2) Nutritional and functional Beet Kvass!
Fermented foods are gaining popularity in Australia. Three years ago, in article Food trends in 2020, I predicted a significant increase in the popularity of kefir.
In 2024, the king of fermented products will be - Beet Kvass! This deep pinky elixir, is rich packed with probiotics, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and phytonutrients. Rich in iron, is a perfect and naturall support for people struggling with iron deficiency. Supports the immune and digestive systems, our guts love it. Beet Kvass is considered as nutritional and functional food, funny enough it's been know for decades.
I prepare (especially during winter) this amazing long life, gut lover elixir for my family since I remember. Needless to say the taste is amazing, and preparation is extremely simple.
3) Collagen rich food The recent popularity of collagen has been impressive. Almost every skin care company offers creams, peelings and serums with collagen. However, research shows that collagen cream is useless if the deficiency of the collagen ( collagen- protein- which occurs naturally in our body, and our body produces it) is not supplied to our body from the food. Trust me, collagen rich food will be on your shopping list every week. I've listed for you, top 5 high collagen food products:
- bone broth
- fish and seafood
- chicken (especially chicken skin)
- berries
- citrus fruits
4) Coffee Whole Fruit
I can't even imagine a more perfect morning than with my cup of hot black coffee. Let me admit this again - I'm definitely a coffee person. I love coffee culture and everything around it. All who like to follow food new products, especially superfoods, nutritional and functional, noticed something new on the market - what is called coffee fruit (sometimes named a coffee cherry or coffee berry). Coffee fruit were considered a waste during coffee beans production process. Now much appreciated. On the top of that the research suggest that coffee fruits have a significant benefit for our health. Coffee berry is rich in antioxidant polyphenols and even can support our brain health. Stimulating our body collagen production which, as a result, has a positive effect on our skin and young outlook. Store shelves will have coffee berry products options for sure in 2024.
5) Anti-inflammatory diet
We are living in very stress full and fast paced times. Even if we find time to unwind and relax we decide to spend it with phone or social media exposing ourself to the screens that emits blue light . This beside other factors has impact to your body, brain and health. This can cause inflammations in your body. So the anti-inflammatory diet will be very desirable in 2024. Hope this will be a huge step to build new healthy habits not only in food and eating.
last but not least- product of the year 2024, will be....
6) Buckwheat flour
We will discover buckwheat (especially as a flour) once again - nutty flavour, rich in minerals and low glycaemic index (GI). Buckwheat flour is made from the grain-like seeds of pseudocereal (pseudograin). Buckwheat is rich in fibre, protein and minerals. Furthermore is also gluten free. Buckwheat flour is great as substitute for all kind of gluten flours. What else do I need to say, other than Soba noodles. Oh, yeah, personally I love to use buckwheat flour to make pancakes. My kids love it for breakfast. Next time I will share with you my super easy, tasty buckwheat pancake recipe. You need to definitely to try it in 2024!
Let's share your thoughts in the comments bellows! What are your predictions about food trends 2024? Thanks!