If you’re foodies like us, you’re going to love these delicious food trends in 2025. We’ve scanned the web, thumbed through magazines, and checked our fave social media platforms to put together our own list of the top 10 food trends that we think are going to be rocking your world and your tastebuds next year. Let’s take a look at what they are:
1. Chaos Cakes
Perhaps in rebellion against the picture perfect images of food that we are presented with every second of the day on our social media feeds, one of our favourite food trends in 2025 has to be chaos cakes.
As the name would suggest, this is all about getting chaotic with your baking. We’re talking cakes shaped like animals (specifically rat cakes for some reason, don’t ask us why, it’s just a thing!), cakes shaped like celebrities, cakes that depict funny moments in our lives, or even a secret celeb crush cake. The wackier the better.
These cakes are far from perfection and that’s precisely the point. 2025 is going to see us making funny cakes for friends that look terrible and only bear a passing resemblance to what they’re supposed to look like. If you can imagine the showstopper round on the celebrity version of The Great British Bake Off where celebs have barely picked up a spatula in their lives let alone baked. Well, THAT is what you’re aiming for!
2. Pilpelchuma
Next year is going to be heavy on the flavour as you’ll see when we reveal some of our other food trends in 2025 a little further down. Firstly, let’s kick off with pilpelchuma. Pilpelchuma is a spicy Libyan paste made from a blend of chilli peppers, garlic, and cumin. Touted as the next harissa, this condiment can be used to enrich stews and sauces, as a delicious coating for roasted vegetables and meat, or it can be added to rice and pasta dishes to give a deeper flavour profile.
You can also buy pilpelchuma seasoning, which is a dried version that can be used as a meat rub or can be rehydrated with water to make it into a paste. If it sounds a little too spicy for your tastebuds, you can have a go at making it yourself, by replacing the chilli peppers with roasted peppers instead.
3. Pickles
This next food trend has come about because of trending content on TikTok and Instagram. 2024 saw the rise of the pickle, as Gen Z went absolutely crazy for this sour taste dividing gherkin. It started with the pickle eating challenge where competitors had to eat as many pickles as possible within a set time, then rapidly moved on to pickle juice chugging challenges, and suddenly we started seeing all kinds of pickle food trends emerging.
As food trends in 2025 go, we can’t see this one lasting the whole year. After all, does anyone really want the bread of their sandwich replaced with giant chunky slices of pickle (yep, we’ve seen a fast food outlet in America do this and it looks disgusting). It’s very much a Marmite thing – you’re going to love it or you’re going to hate it. And if you love pickles, wow you are in for a treat. With everything from fried pickle dips, pickle cake, pickle fries, and even pickle margaritas, the humble gherkin is massively upping its foodie game for 2025!
4. Soda Floats
Do you remember making coke floats when you were a kid? It was simply a case of putting a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of a glass of coke (if you were really lucky it would have been a coke you’d made in your mum’s sodastream!) and suddenly you had what felt like the most boujee drink ever… although the word boujee hadn’t even been invented then, but you get our point.
Soda floats in 2025 are going way bigger than your average coke float from the 80s though. It’s giving all-American retro diner style vibes but pimped up twenty twenties stylee. Expect to see everything from homemade soda (without the sodastream might we add!), fruit soda, over the top soda toppings, and root beer aesthetic and cream soda aesthetic will be trending all over your socials.
5. Gochujang
Remember we mentioned that food trends in 2025 will feature lots of flavour? Well, we’re back with another one for ya! Gochujang is a thick, spicy, salty, sweet, earthy (seriously, it’s got all the flavour profiles going on) Korean condiment that is used to inject depth and umami flavour to the food it’s added to.
It is made from fermented red chilli peppers, fermented soybeans, glutinous rice, and salt and can be used in so many different ways. Although gochujang has been around since the 16th century, it’s only more recently that it’s made its way into the Western world. In fact, its popularity has grown since a contestant on this year’s Great British Bake Off used it to make gochujang bread dough and the judges absolutely loved it.
Because of its varied taste profile, gochujang can be used in both savoury and sweet dishes, for example it tastes equally delicious in shakshuka style baked eggs as it does in gochujang caramel cookies. Keep an eye out for this one as we can see this becoming a food cupboard staple in 2025.
6. Savoury Cocktails
Many of us are looking to make healthier choices with the food and drink we consume, and whilst some people interpret that as giving alcohol up altogether, others are opting to drink savoury cocktails instead!
Because cocktails are notoriously sweet, right? And we all know too much sugar isn’t good for us. But we won’t have to worry about that next year, as we’ll be sipping feta brine martinis, spicy margaritas with chilli salted rims, and chilli infused fruit punches instead. Consumers are looking for new and adventurous flavours and they want cocktails that can accompany and compliment their meals. Let’s face it, a Strawberry Daiquiri doesn’t exactly pair well with a Spag Bol, does it!?!
7. Full Fat
A few years back we would have shuddered in horror at the thought of eating anything full fat, but we’ve come a long way since then. We now know that full fat products are actually much better for us (when consumed in the right quantities) and this is going to be reflected in food trends in 2025.
And there are some very good reasons why we should be switching back to full fat:
- Fills you up for longer
- Contains higher levels of Omega-3s
- Beneficial to heart health
- Contains higher levels of Vitamin D
2025 will likely see a rise in the consumption of products such as full fat milk and butter, with flavoured butters becoming particularly popular. We’re looking forward to trying out butter boards – imagine charcuterie boards with the main focus of the board being flavoured butters that you dip various hot breads and breadsticks into, they look insane – so watch out as we’re certain they’ll be all over your social media feeds next year.
8. Zebra Striping
Don’t worry, we’re not about to tell you that zebra meat is set to become one of the food trends in 2025. Nor are we going to tell you that all of our food is about to get stripy. No, zebra striping means to intersperse your alcoholic drinks with a glass of water, soft drink, or non-alcoholic drink so that you are less likely to get plastered and suffer from the world’s worst hangover in the morning.
According to Alcohol Change UK, a whopping 215,000 people took part in Dry January this year, which was an increase of 22%. And Gen Z, who have a massive influence on the trends that emerge, drink on average 20% less than Millennials and even more so than the generations before that. Sobriety, it seems, is an ever growing trend, but for those people who don’t want to give up alcohol entirely, zebra striping is a way to moderate alcohol consumption and still enjoy their favourite tipple.
9. Toum
We’re back with the last of our flavour packed sauces featuring in food trends in 2025. Say hello to toum, a Lebanese garlic sauce made from garlic, oil, salt, and lemon juice.
If you love garlic, this is the food trend for you. Toum is similar in taste to aioli, or garlic mayonnaise, and it can be used in a similar way.
Here are some ideas for you:
- Dip for pitta, fries, crisps, veg sticks etc.
- Salad dressing
- Pizza sauce
- Garlic bread
- Sandwich spread
Containing roughly 12 cloves of garlic, toum is certainly delicious, but be warned no one will want to come anywhere near you for a while after you’ve eaten it!
10. Edible Packaging
And rounding up our final food trend for 2025, we’ve got edible packaging. Yep, you heard us right, packaging you can eat!
With more and more of us trying to do our bit to be more sustainable and create less waste, edible packaging is big news. It can be made from a variety of different substances including seaweed, algae, milk casein, starch, gelatine, and cellulose. Edible packaging is mostly used in products that break down during the cooking process, for example edible wrappers on stock cubes.
Not only does edible packaging help the environment by reducing food waste, it is biodegradable (should you choose not to eat it) so that it can break down more easily, and it can also help keep food fresh.
Watch this space, as we predict more and more of our food products will start to switch over to edible packaging in 2025.
Final Thoughts
So, there you have it, our top 10 predictions for food trends in 2025. Quite the mixture, don’t you think? Our personal faves are chaos cakes and soda floats, but what about you? What are you most excited about trying in 2025?
What do you think will be some of the food trends in 2025?
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