Food Blog: Looking ahead to 2023 food trends

Friday, January 20, 2023

Looking ahead to 2023 food trends

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January 2023

Welcome to The Feed

Hello Joe,

Happy New Year and welcome to The Feed! We are feeling hungry for an exciting year ahead and are looking forward to keeping you updated on all the latest news and opportunities from the EIT Food community and across the food system.

In this month's newsletter you will find the biggest food trends for the year ahead, spotlights on some of the most impactful innovators, and upcoming opportunities.

We hope you enjoy,
Matt and the EIT Food team

News and trends

Top 5 European food trends in 2023

Find out more about 2023 food trends

Consumers cut back on food costs to cope with rising prices

Learn more about the research

The latest innovation supporting a net-zero food system

Read the New Food article

Read all news and trends

Impact and inspiration

Protein diversification whitepaper

Protein diversification can play an important role in enhancing the resilience of food systems. Dive into this whitepaper for an outlook on the current state of technological developments, the business and societal potential of protein diversification, and the challenges and opportunities in research and innovation.

Download the Whitepaper

Podcast: Food Trends for 2023

Join Ed Bergen of FutureBridge and Sam Newman of TasteWise on the Food Fight podcast to discuss some of the biggest upcoming food industry trends.

Listen to the podcast

A Day In The Life - R&D Chef

Patrick Clifford of PepsiCo tells us about his job and his ability to create some of our favourite supermarket snacks.

Watch the 'A Day in The Life' series

Watch this

Test Farms 2022 Microbe+

Watch the story of Anna Ogar, Founder and CEO of Microbe+, and her excellent team who have developed a biological product for farmers that stimulates crop growth and protects them against pathogens.

Watch the video

Innovation spotlight

The EU Algae Initiative

The EU is now making important steps to ensure algae are being recognised as an important part of the European food system. EIT Food has warmly welcomed the publication of the European Commission’s Communication “Towards a Strong and Sustainable EU Algae Sector”.

Discover more

Food Ingredients Europe: conversation with startups

In December 2022, EIT Food sponsored a startup pavilion at the Food Ingredients Europe (FiE) conference in Paris. Hear the latest insights from startups in our community that attended the event.

Hear more from our startups

Educating children about sustainable food production

Our interactive workshops inspired children to learn about food production and why we need to grow more sustainable food for future generations.

Learn about t he workshops

Dates for your diary

EIT Food North-West: Startup Discovery Series

Tuesday 24 January, 10:00
Online

Global Forum for Food & Agriculture 2023

18-21 January
Berlin (Germany) and Online

Madrid Fusión 2023 | AgriTech & FoodTech trends

Tuesday 24 January, 12:00
Madrid (Spain)

See all of our events

Opportunities and funding

🥕 Marketed Innovation Prize

We are looking for products or services which have been developed in part, or in full, as a result of engagements with EIT Food. We will award a prize of €10,000 for the best marketed innovation and up to 20 prizes of €5,000 for marketed innovations which demonstrate impact in the market. Submission deadline is 3 February 2023.

Find out more and apply here

💡 EIT Food Open Innovation Call 2023

Have you got an idea for an innovative project that will create positive change in the food system? Then we want to hear from you. We’re looking for projects that will put new products on the market and introduce new and improved commercial processes and services. Submission deadline is 13 April 2023.

Read the guidelines and apply for the Open Innovation Call