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"Food Trends for 2008 NPR -- Weekend Edition Sunday -- January 6, 2008 During the coming year we will be broadcasting other segments about food featuring both top chefs and home cooks. We're going to talk about the emerging trends in how food is made, bought, prepared, and served. According to several different sources around the country, 2008 will be the year of ethical eating. Vegetarian and locally produced food will grace more tables. Wines will be more than organic, they'll be biodynamic. There will be servings of micro-greens you grow yourself, exotic grains, such as amaranth and quinoa, and what are called probiotic dishes, food that helps digestion, or inflammation. Expect a backlash against bottle water -- flavored tap water will fill our glasses instead. Bold Korean, African, and Brazilian flavors will be big, but big entrees will be replaced by small plates. Artificial is out. Junk food will lose its junk ingredients. Authentic is in. phytonutrients are in. Antioxidants are out. Goji berries and pomegranates are in. The blood orange is the new superfood. Salt is the new balsamic vinegar, tea is the new coffee, and caffeine will still be king. Cupcakes apparently, are, last year. This year, go for the pudding, or better yet, savor a nice piece of dark chocolate candy."

1/10/2008 9:40:40 AM

chipotle will continue to be the 00's answer to the 90's ranch

1/10/2008 9:44:32 AM

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"Expect a backlash against bottle water -- flavored tap water will fill our glasses instead."

People might not buy as much bottled water, but I really doubt that the flavored tap stuff is going to catch on it a big way.

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"Junk food will lose its junk ingredients."

Yeah, right. This is America.

1/10/2008 9:47:15 AM

good thing all of our food will be coming out of china anyway

or else we might have to follow some of these rules

1/10/2008 11:38:08 AM

more natural foods.

or more "all natural" on the package.

organic, which was last year, is picking up big time. expect prices to go up

1/10/2008 11:43:21 AM

So if a product is "organic" it implies that the ones that do not have ORGANIC on the packages are inorganic. No food is inorganic.

It's a misnomer for you to buy vegetables at a more expensive price for a crappier quality.

I go to Lowe's foods and look at the avacadoes... the organic ones look like 90 year old wrinkled nuts. The "inorganic" ones are nice a fat and plump. I love pesticides.

1/10/2008 11:46:12 AM

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"Salt is the new balsamic vinegar"

Am I confused or does this mean people will be dropping balsamic vinegar to start salting things again??

1/10/2008 11:56:50 AM

2girl1cup will lead to a shit and vomit eating trend late in the year.

1/10/2008 11:58:16 AM

This really should be titled "Food Trends for 2008 that NPR wishes would happen"

Or maybe just Food Trends for 2008 for NPR listeners.

Cause some of this shit is waayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too hippy to catch on mainstream. Especially all in one year.

1/10/2008 12:02:03 PM

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"chipotle will continue to be the 00's answer to the 90's ranch"

no shit, right? you'd think it was a cure for cancer

1/10/2008 12:44:01 PM

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"but I really doubt that the flavored tap stuff is going to catch on it a big way."

i agree, only b/c the flavor includes splenda. nasty.

1/11/2008 3:01:54 AM

^que? you must have super human tastebuds b/c splenda tastes 100% exactly like sugar to me

1/11/2008 8:41:56 AM

lol


food NPR wants to be popular!


OMG ORGANIC PRODUCE!!!!11111111111111

[Edited on January 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM. Reason : pretentious faggots]

1/11/2008 8:43:49 AM

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"good thing all of [y]our food will be coming out of china anyway"

1/11/2008 8:44:39 AM

they forgot pomegranate!

[Edited on January 11, 2008 at 8:47 AM. Reason : nope, they didn't.... can't be pretentious without it]

1/11/2008 8:46:23 AM

I ONLY DRINK BLOOD ORANGE MIMOSAS!!!!

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"It's a misnomer for you to buy vegetables at a more expensive price for a crappier quality......I love pesticides cancer and biopollution."

some organic foods taste better, some don't, but organic farming is about more than pleasing the consumer's tongue

1/11/2008 10:21:57 AM

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"you must have super human tastebuds b/c splenda tastes 100% exactly like sugar to me"

You must have no tastebuds, because splends still tastes like a chemical sweetner. its beter than nutrasweet, but definitely still artificial tasting.

[Edited on January 11, 2008 at 10:28 AM. Reason : ]

1/11/2008 10:27:47 AM

I can agree with Ian, Splenda tastes like artifical ass. I dislike that and Nutrasweet intensely, and even in a blind taste test (sweet tea at my grandmas) I can tell the difference. Even "sugar-free" soda that uses Splenda has a completely different taste than plain ass sugar soda.

1/11/2008 10:34:10 AM

splenda sucks. period.

1/11/2008 11:12:22 AM

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"^que? you must have super human tastebuds b/c splenda tastes 100% exactly like sugar to me"

i get super human migranes whenever i have artificial sweeteners. plus they all taste like crap.

have you had sweeteners since childhood and are desensitized to it?

1/11/2008 12:48:59 PM

this list is a joke

1/11/2008 12:52:54 PM

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"Antioxidants are out. Goji berries and pomegranates are in. The blood orange is the new superfood."

Does not compute. Goji berries, pomegranates, or blood oranges are all highly revered for their high antioxidant content. If anything, it's the antioxidants that make people willing to pay the prices they command over more common fruits.

1/11/2008 2:06:51 PM

dammit

i thought this was going to be about how the growing demand for higher quality food is going to affect commodities

1/11/2008 3:00:24 PM

^
ok

how will it affect commodities?

1/11/2008 5:08:18 PM

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"phytonutrients are in. Antioxidants are out."

which idiot wrote that?

btw,

amaranth
quinoa
probiotics
pomegranates
tea
dark chocolate

are regular parts of my diet.

1/11/2008 5:14:19 PM

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"tea is the new coffee, and caffeine will still be king. "

This isn't fucking Europe. The only people in America that drink hot tea are fucking old people.

1/11/2008 5:16:00 PM

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"Does not compute. Goji berries, pomegranates, or blood oranges are all highly revered for their high antioxidant content. If anything, it's the antioxidants that make people willing to pay the prices they command over more common fruits."

I think its more about finding foods with naturally ocurring antioxidants, rather than trying to add them artificially

just a guess

1/11/2008 5:18:37 PM

^ i think that's probably it.

^^ you need to calm down before your heart explodes.

1/11/2008 5:27:51 PM

^^ Maybe.

I think Acai berries are going to be bigger than Goji berries in 2008. That's my official prediction. Go buy some commodities futures off of it.

1/11/2008 5:31:56 PM

lol you organic hatin' niggers.

and you suger haters need to look into stevia

[Edited on January 11, 2008 at 5:50 PM. Reason : ]

1/11/2008 5:48:07 PM

^^ But they smell like feet

Or at least the juice, anyway. After that, I'm not really too excited to try anything else.

1/11/2008 6:07:30 PM

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"This really should be titled "Food Trends for 2008 that NPR wishes would happen" Or maybe just Food Trends for 2008 for NPR listeners. Cause some of this shit is waayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too hippy to catch on mainstream. Especially all in one year"

I CAN'T FUNCTION WITHOUT SOMEONE ELSE TELLING ME WHAT'S ACCEPTABLE TO EAT AND DO IN MY LIFE

omg did you see american idol!!111

1/11/2008 6:09:58 PM

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"and you suger haters need to look into stevia"

a lot of people have started using that. i see packets of that stuff on the ground everywhere.

1/11/2008 6:17:18 PM

i take a stick of sugar cane and chomp on it like a candy cane

1/11/2008 6:35:40 PM

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"flavored tap water will fill our glasses instead."

flavored water ftl. what's wrong with the actual FLAVOR of water?

1/11/2008 9:11:45 PM

it's bland? it could possible be gross depending on the source?

1/11/2008 9:14:22 PM

like the tap of raleigh

1/11/2008 9:26:04 PM

"Authentic is in. phytonutrients are in. Antioxidants are out.

Goji berries and pomegranates are in. The blood orange is the new superfood."


There has been some debate on this statement in this forum. I must say that I beleive it is MOSTLY on track. Authentic is in, just ask Huckabee! LOL, he says he is authentic, and that authenticity is what the public wants, but won't tell you what it means to be so. Politics aside...

There has been a myth promoted by various health groups stating that antioxidants are great for you and work miracles. It is true, anti-oxidants do great things for preventing illness and nutralizing free-radicals, but what isn't common knowlege is that the most powerful antioxidants are made by your own body. The ones that you can consume from external sources help some, sure, but don't compare with your natural antioxidants produced inside you as far as protective properties.

Instead of "phytonutrients", they should have said "polysacharides" are in, because it's the four unique polysacharides found in certain goji berries (not all) that help every cell in your body communicate with each other better and function more smoothly. They even help cells repair damaged DNA so that they replicate like a youngster again. That is why goji juice that is standardized for polysacharide potency is known as the " most powerful anti-aging food on the planet". It also has the added benefit of stimulating your body's own production of antioxidants, intensifying the effect.

You don't have to take my word for it. You can find 91 independent studies on "lycium barbarum", or the scientific name for goji, on the National Medical Library site:

www.pubmed.gov

I haven't looked up the blood orange yet, but I am pretty sure it doesn't have 91 independent studies pointing out its benefits, or 3000 years of history like goji has in Chinese medicinal history.

Another mistake in the report is saying that "goji berries" are popular, because when goji is dried or pasteurized the heat destroys all of the bioactive polysacharides or the active ingredients. So you could eat lbs of goji berries everyday and it might give you a good bit of fiber and other stuff, but nothing sensational. Same thing with the juices out there if they are not standardized for polysacharide content, which there is only one that does carry a spectral signature certifying potency. It is the "authentic" goji juice product that was first to bring goji to the forefront of the functional beverage market, and to the western world 4 years ago.

It is called, Himalayan Goji Juice, and has now been improved with a new version called GoChi containing 30% more polysacharides than the original version, and you guessed it, contains delicious pomegratate juice as well for flavor.

GoChi is backed by a new randomized, double blind, placebo controlled study showing actuall benefits in 13 health categories in 14 days by drinking 2oz twice a day. The results are becoming known as the "GoChi Effect".

You can find out more about the study at www.russellharper.info

Have a great Goji Day!

1/18/2008 3:10:43 AM

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"Underwood's Deviled Ham returns to a slice of bread near you."

1/18/2008 3:15:08 AM

life is short


I'm gonna live it enjoying it until it's over


I really don't give a fuck what some hippy homos say is in "style"

1/18/2008 3:22:34 AM

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"According to several different sources around the country, 2008 will be the year of ethical eating."

I predict that 2008 will be the year of status quo eating. I wonder whose prediction is more accurate?

1/18/2008 7:59:29 AM