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It’s important for the food industry to keep at least one eye on developing taste trends a year or more hence - if you are ahead of the food curve you can get a greater share of the profits before the fickle general public gets bored with the latest new thing and goes in search of the even newer thing.

In 2020, expect plenty of ‘sour’...

‘Sour’ is going to be just colossal - inspired by the popularity of Korean, Filipino and Persian cuisines (and possibly also by the way politics is going). You’re going to see a whole bunch of things containing kimchee, rhubarb, lemons, tamarind, and plums - and you’re going to pretend to enjoy them.

You will also be drinking more rum than ever before - taking the place of gin (previously Prosecco and before that white wine) as the school run mum’s favourite tipple. This will almost certainly be rum produced in small batches in artisan conditions by men in waistcoats. You see if I’m wrong.

But, get this, space meat is going to be the big hitter in the near future. Most probs not next year, but some time soon, mark my words - they don’t call me the ‘Nostradamus of Food’ for nothing you know.

Sorry what…? You’ve never heard of space meat…?

Get this… Israeli food technology company Aleph Farms has successfully grown meat from harvested bovine cells on board the International Space Station - orbiting 248 miles above the Earth. Apparently the cells were grown into small-scale muscle tissue using a 3d bioprinter under microgravity conditions. No, I’m not entirely sure how that works, but if I did, I would be giving it a go myself. The new process not only paves the way for extra-terrestrial barbeques but could also provide a cruelty free way of eating delicious steak.

And the same company has also produced the death-free meat in an Earth-based lab, creating a prototype strip of meat in two weeks. According to the team, the taste needs to be worked on… but then people eat Pot Noodle don’t they?

With more people than ever proclaiming ‘I’m thinking of going a bit more vegan this year’ (whatever that means) it’s clear that there is a huge market for this freaky meat - and where there’s a market, there’s profit to be made. And profit fuels progress. I’ll bring you more as soon as I get it.