Healthy eating to dominate food trends this year

Keeping up with the chefs, find out what food trends are predicted to dominate 2023.

Food is like fashion, with trendsetters in the culinary industry often influencing what consumers will be eating in the coming year.

Did you know? The top five food trends on TikTok in 2022 were: Cloud bread, with an astonishing 3.4 billion views; baked oats (1.3 billion views); charcuterie boards (1.2 billion views); pasta chips (1.1 billion views) and mug cake (1 billion views).

To get an idea of what South Africans can expect in 2023, we asked chef lecturers at Capsicum Culinary Studio campuses to share some of their predications for this year’s biggest food trends and shifts.

Larozaan van Zyl (Boksburg campus)