Show Me: Future of Feasting

Feelable Flavour

With shrinking portion sizes and indulgence in moderation, impactful flavour and experience are the new King and Queen of snacking. As people seek more bang for their buck in meals and snacking moments, creating big flavours will be crucial for brands to navigate progressively particular palates.

Pharma Appetite

The rise in weight- management drugs has fundamentally reshaped how people relate to, and consume, food. When you only eat 800 calories a day, every gram must be a 'super macro.'

Polycrisis Palates

Perhaps it's time we stop being squeamish and start embracing the weird. From the carcass of the nose to tail eating trend, we're seeing an evolution in meat consumption and what parts we see as culturally acceptable to consume.

Syntheticultural revolution

Today, 75% of our calories come from only twelve crops and five animals. With livestock a significant source of greenhouse gases and global population projected to reach 10.3 billion in 2084, we need a 26% increase in our global protein supply to feed everyone adequately. So where does that additional sustenance come from?

Death of the dinner table

For most of human history, sitting down to eat was a social act before it was a nutritional one. Alongside the development of language and the practice of reciprocity, anthropologists credit sharing a meal - commensality - as one of the major building blocks of civilisation. But in 2026, the dinner table is in danger of disappearing entirely.