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Top 10 food and beverage trends set to dominate 2025. (Image: Getty/Tara Moore) Food and beverage is awash with new and growing trends. We discover what consumers are craving in 2025 Food and beverage trends are everywhere, with new colours, flavours, eating styles and diets topping the charts every year. Here’s a rundown of the top 10 trend dominating food and beverage in 2025. 1: JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out) The Joy Of Missing Out, or JOMO, is all about enjoying the comforts of home, without worrying about what’s happening elsewhere – parties, concerts etc. It’s been growing in popularity since the  Covid-19 pandemic , when consumers spent all their time either cooking at home or ordering in. “Who needs to go out, when you can have restaurant quality meals, top notch cocktails, and barista grade coffee at home,” says Charles Banks, director and co-founder of TheFoodPeople. The trend is defined by staying home and enjoying: Cafecore:  Homemade barista-style coffee, with consumer...

  Holland & Barrett, the UK’s leading health and wellness retailer, opened the doors to it’s first H&B Experience Store on Thursday 20 th  March on Cardiff’s Queens Street, voted the UK’s best high street. The 3710sq.ft store, making it  H&B’s  largest store to date, comes complete with a fresh look and feel, boasting even more of Holland & Barrett’s latest range of health and wellness solutions and brand-first immersive experiences.   Following customer insights pointing to demand for immersive experiences, Cardiff will host H&B’s first wellbeing studio to offer customers a holistic experience, including yoga and pilates. The Experience Store will also offer health checks and blood testing and an in-store H&B&Me pod to help customers to learn their biological age and discover healthy habits to support their long-term health and wellbeing.   The health and wellness giant partnered with ideas-fuelled creative agency, Syn, to reima...

  Vandemoortele  , a family-owned agri-food group with a century-old history and strong roots in Europe, and  VIVESCIA  , a leading French cereal cooperative group, announced today that they have signed an agreement for Vandemoortele to acquire Délifrance  .  A wholly-owned subsidiary of VIVESCIA Industries, Délifrance is one of the European leaders in  frozen baked goods  , with nearly 3,200 employees, an industrial network of 14 sites, and revenue of approximately €930 million as of June 30, 2024. Délifrance is a BtoB brand recognized worldwide for the level of quality of its products, embodying the excellence of French bakery. Mainly present in Europe and Asia, Délifrance offers solutions and services to players in mass distribution, out-of-home catering and artisanal bakeries. A new top-tier ensemble By combining their expertise and know-how, Délifrance and Vandemoortele could meet the challenges of tomorrow, offering their customers a complet...