What Food Trends Will Continue Or Surface In The Rest Of 2017?

At the beginning of this year, we went into what to expect for the major food trends of 2017. Some of these trends included authenticity in food — especially in Japanese cuisine — purple foods, plant-based meats, and fried chicken for breakfast.

Now that 2017 is about halfway done, it’s time to sit down, evaluate the year in food so far, and see what we got right and wrong. To take a look back and identify the most current trends, Foodbeast Publisher Elie Ayrouth, myself, and fellow Foodbeast writer Evan Lancaster got together on the most recent episode of our podcast, The Katchup, and broke down what we’ve been seeing in food trends over the past few months.

While some patterns, like the fall of kale and the rise of plant-based meat, have gone as predicted, most food trends have evolved in ways none of us expected. The meteoric rise of Filipino food, fried chicken’s takeover on Instagram, the return of ice cream to popularity, and purple making its way into every Unicorn and Galaxy-themed dish out there were definitely not some things we expected. Elie, Evan, and I dove deep into discussions on why that was for each, which you can listen to in the full podcast above.

We also predicted some more food trends that we expect to come up as 2017 progresses, and we’ll be keeping an eye out to see if those come true. In this day and age where food fads and trends rise and fall so swiftly, some of the trends we’re seeing now may be gone by the end of 2017. We’ll just have to go along for the ride and see where food ends up.