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Innovation Debrief 2025: Resilient Appetites

In our Adaptive Appetites macrotrend report, we forecast that climate change and resource scarcity would drive the food and drink industry to re-invent itself through innovative manufacturing and resourceful design. Today, lab-grown and 3D-printed products are expanding into new categories and emerging as symbols of the industry’s resilience and…

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Premium Desserts

Not just for after dinner, desserts and sweet treats are becoming cultural markers that are reshaping rituals, redefining indulgence and influencing supply chains from Dubai to Dorset.

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A café designed for sci-fi desserts

Australian café and lifestyle concept Black Star Pastry is opening a space-themed dessert bar in Shanghai, to mark its first foray into China.

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Animal-free ice cream for East Asian diners

US food technology firm Perfect Day has partnered with Hong Kong’s Igloo Dessert Bar to launch Asia's first animal-free dairy ice cream.

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Indulgence Market: Restaurant Desserts

Changing consumer palates and a marked decline in the number of pastry chefs are forcing restaurants to rethink dessert, both in terms of ingredients and how it is perceived online.

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Elastic ice cream launches in New York

New York – The dessert start-up, Republic of Booza is bringing a traditional Middle Eastern ice cream called Booza, to the Western market.

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Just desserts

Oxford – Dessert brand Onist is helping poor communities in Gambia with sales of its avocado and chocolate pots.

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Drip feeding

New York – Chef Darren Wong is introducing New Yorkers to one of Japan’s culinary oddities, the Water Cake.

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Sweet ending: Dessert cocktail bar opens in London

London – Walk down the stairs into Basement Sate and it looks like any other cocktail bar, with its mood lighting and dark furniture. But one look at the bar menu and instead of scotch eggs you’ll see salted caramel and instead of pork scratchings, there is passionfruit coulis.