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Protein Confection

Meat options are added to dessert fare to balance flavor profiles

Implications - Merging flavor profiles and reinventing how sweet and savory flavors are experienced, brands are turning to unexpected meat and protein infusions to invigorate consumer palates. Adding ingredients like bacon and steak to cotton candy and yogurt, food brands are collaborating to not only reinvent flavors, but also to showcase how protein and nutrients can be experienced in fun, alternative ways.
Workshop Question - What surprising products could you converge with your own to reposition your brand in the eyes of consumers?
Trend Themes
1. Meat-filled Desserts - Brands are merging flavor profiles by adding meat to desserts, reinventing how sweet and savory flavors are experienced.
2. Unexpected Sweet and Savory Pairings - The food and beverage industry is showcasing that protein and nutrients can be experienced in alternative, playful ways.
3. Hybrid Snacks - Hybrid snacks such as bone-marrow filled donuts or meat-topped pastries are highlighting the demand for unexpected twists on familiar food items.
Industry Implications
1. Food and Beverage - There is an opportunity to merge sweet and savory flavors using more non-traditional options such as protein.
2. Carnival and Fairground - There is a need to change the perception of carnival or fairground food by adding an unexpected, but delicious twist to classics.
3. Butchery - There is a potential to market to the meat-eating demographic to showcase meat and protein in ways they may not have experienced it before.
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Featured Examples

Bone Marrow-Stuffed Donuts
Bone Marrow-Stuffed Donuts
This Donut Features a Chocolate Filling Made from Roasted Bone Marrow
New York City butcher shop Hudson & Charles recently teamed up with the Doughnut Project to create an unusual pastry stuffed with roasted bone marrow. While donuts have been made with everything... MORE
Meaty Cotton Candy Confections
Meaty Cotton Candy Confections
This Bizarre Dish Combines Sweet Candy Floss with Savory Pork Belly
Brooklyn’s ‘Carnem Prime Steakhouse’ is offering a strange new dish, which combines sweet candy floss with slices of biased pork belly. The bizarre dish was created by Executive... MORE
Bacon-Covered Twinkies
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These Meat-Filled Corner Store Treats Offer Savory and Sweet Flavors
Offering a unique eating experience to the popular corner store treats are these bacon-covered Twinkies by Oh, Bite It! that creatively combine sweet and salty flavors in an unconventional blending... MORE
Pork-Topped Pastries
Pork-Topped Pastries
The 2016 Canadian National Exhibition Will Serve Pulled Pork Cinnamon Rolls
Continuing its tradition of serving up strange and innovative food products, the 2016 Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) will be offering pulled pork cinnamon rolls alongside other unusual treats.... MORE
Chicken Gelato Desserts
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This Chicken-Based Gelato Flavor Functions as an Aperitif
Micarna is a meat producer from Switzerland that is now trying its hand at the world of desserts with an unconventional gelato flavor. The brand recently unveiled its ‘Chicken Gelati,’... MORE
Savory Meat Donuts
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The Doughnut Project Serves Deep Fried Pastries Topped with Salty Ingredients
The Doughnut Project is an eatery that focuses on the deep fried pastries with a savory theme focused on the inclusion of meat ingredients as toppings in honor of the themed ‘Meat Week’... MORE

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