food trends

Popular eating movements

Food trends are patterns of eating behavior, ingredients, or culinary styles that gain widespread popularity for a period.

They emerge from health research, social media, celebrity influence, or cultural shifts: Plant-based eating is the biggest food trend of the decade.

Some trends fade quickly while others reshape how people cook and eat permanently.

Opposites
temporal permanence

food trendstraditional cuisine

Culturally inherited cooking methods

traditional cooking · culinary traditions · heirloom recipes · ancestral recipes · staple foods

cultural origin

food trendstraditional cuisine

Culturally inherited cooking methods

peasant food · soul food · family recipes · rustic cooking

standardization

food trendshome cooking

Meals prepared at residence

meat and potatoes · square meals

Family

food, trends

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G