Food Trends 2020: The culinary path to sustainability

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What do milk, butter and flour have in common in 2020? This year, these foods are experiencing a revolutionary culinary makeover! The growing awareness for sustainability and healthy nutrition is reflected on supermarket shelves. The food scene of the future is becoming increasingly creative and shows that food in 2020 should not only taste good, but above all benefit our environment and our bodies.

We want to present you our personal highlights from the Food Trends 2020, which will pave the culinary way to sustainability in the long term. May we introduce: The protein-rich pea milk, the creamy chickpea butter and the tough tiger nut flour. We want to present you our personal highlights from the Food Trends 2020, which will pave the culinary way to sustainability in the long term. May we introduce: The protein-rich pea milk, the creamy chickpea butter and the tough tiger nut flour.

The protein bomb among the vegetable milk alternatives: pea milk

Almond and oat milk were only the beginning. Now pea milk is being discussed as the best and healthiest alternative to conventional cow’s milk. All those who think of pea milk as a thick, green paste should now be amazed. The drink made from dried yellow peas is white, creamy and surprisingly does not taste like peas. In fact, the taste is sweetish even in the unsweetened varieties and comes surprisingly close to cow’s milk.

 

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But what makes the vegan milk substitute the food trend for 2020 are above all the nutritional values: at 8 grams per quarter of a litre, pea milk is about as rich in protein as cow’s milk and therefore a real protein bomb. At the same time, the milk “milked” from legumes is also rich in fibre, low in fat and, on top of that, lactose-free.

The German manufacturer “Princess and the Pea” puts the fairy tale on the Tetrabox. The pea drink is available in selected Rewe shops and online.

Nutty, creamy and absolutely nut-free: Chickpea butter

No, this is not a new name for hummus, but all hummus lovers should be excited about this fancy food trend 2020: butter made from chickpeas. For snacking with fruit and spreading on toast, this innovative butter alternative is designed to be as sticky and spreadable as peanut butter. In addition, the chickpea butter provides the perfect balance between sweet and salty flavours. Indeed, experience has shown that it tastes more like peanut butter than hummus.

 

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The taste profile is supplemented by a load of vegetable proteins, vitamins and minerals that make the spread a superfood that you can spread on bread with a clear conscience. This is because, unlike almonds and other nuts, the legume is fairly undemanding to grow. Its water requirement is limited and is therefore ideal for resource-saving consumption. The absence of nuts makes chickpea butter a cool option for allergy sufferers. The butter is even easy to prepare from scratch.

Flour Power with tigernuts: Tiger Nut Flour

They look like nuts, they taste like nuts, they’re even called Tiger NUTS, so they must be nuts, right? Wrong! Tiger Nuts are not nuts at all. They are a small, starchy root vegetable that originally comes from Ethiopia. There they have been harvested and processed into flour for centuries. A real power plant with tradition that now has arrived here in 2020 as a superfood.

 

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Tigernut flour is naturally sweet and nutty and thus forms the ideal basis for baking recipes. It is rich in prebiotic fibres, iron, potassium, protein, magnesium, zinc and vitamins E and C, making it a real superfood. That’s why Foodies don’t want to miss out on tigernut flour. You can find delicious baking recipes with tigernut flour here.

 

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