2017年有哪些食品会风靡？

如果你还没吃过紫色芦笋，或是黑色蒜泥，明年可能有机会尝试了。

全食超市本周四发布了对2017年食物流行趋势的预测，这是食品专家研究了超过400家连锁店里消费者行为后列出的一份清单。全食超市表示，新一年里的色彩流行趋势是“统统变紫色”，例如紫色芦笋、紫色菜花、紫薯等等。

对热心环保的购物者来说也有好消息，全食超市预计副产品制成的食物将流行起来，副产品可能是希腊酸奶剩下的乳清，也有可能是酿啤酒的酒糟。至于椰子，全食超市认为2017年消费者会饮用更多热带水果风味的饮料。椰子既是水果，也是坚果，里面还有种子，所以会被用来制糖，制成美容产品。此外，白色椰肉也会更多用在面粉、玉米饼、薯片、冰淇淋和黄油等食品中。

以下是2017年潜力最大的八种食品：

• 健康补品：成分包括卡瓦、图尔西/圣罗勒、姜黄粉和苹果醋。

• 副产品：全食超市称Atlanta Fresh和White Moustache等公司正利用酸奶的副产品乳清制作益生菌饮料。

• 什么都有椰子味的：薯片、冰淇淋、黄油等等。

• 日本食品不是只有寿司：例如海苔、海藻，还有日式咸菜。

• 创意调味品：例如黑芝麻酱、哈瓦那辣椒酱、印度酥油，还有黑色蒜泥。

• 新型意大利面：用藜麦、小扁豆和鹰嘴豆制成的新型面条会越发流行。

• 紫色食物：也包括黑米、接骨木浆果、巴西莓，还有紫色玉米和谷物。

• 加热即食食品：新鲜的加热即食餐包和蔬菜杂烩日渐受欢迎。 （财富中文网）

作者：Madeline Farber

译者：Pessy

审校：夏林

If you’ve never tried purple asparagus or black garlic purée, you might get your chance starting next year.

On Tuesday, Whole Foods released its predictions for 2017’s hottest food trends—a list that’s compiled by experts who track consumer behavior at more than 400 of the chain’s stores.

One of the more colorful food trends of the new year is “purple everything,” the company says, such as purple asparagus, purple cauliflower, and purple sweet potatoes, among others.

And environmentally-friendly shoppers will be happy to know that Whole Foods predicts that food made from byproducts—whether it’s leftover whey from strained Greek yogurt or spent grains from beer—will be trendy, too.

As for coconuts, Whole Foods thinks consumers will branch out from tropical fruit-flavored water in 2017: Coconut, which is a fruit, a nut, and a seed all in one, will be used to make sugar, beauty products, and its white flesh will be more commonly found in flours, tortillas, chips, ice creams, butters, and more.

Here’s the list of the top eight potential food trends of 2017:

• Wellness tonics: Ingredients include kava, Tulsi/holy basil, turmeric, and apple cider vinegar.

• Byproducts: Whole Foods says brands like Atlanta Fresh and White Moustache are using leftover whey from yogurt production to create probiotic drinks.

• Coconut everything: Think: Chips, ice cream, butters, etc.

• Japanese food beyond sushi: Like dried kelp, wakame, and Japanese-style pickles.

• Creative Condiments: Such as black sesame tahini, habanero jam, ghee, and black garlic purée.

• Alternative pasta: Alternative grain noodles made from quinoa, lentils, and chickpeas will be on the rise.

• Purple foods: Also will include black rice, elderberries, acai, and purple corn and cereal.

• Oven-ready meal kits: Fresh oven-ready meal kits and vegetable medleys will be on the upswing.