Sacred Serve makes plant-based gelato that's naturally sweetened with coconut sugar and boosted with beneficial superfood ingredients. The brand makes vibrant flavors like chaga chocolate, matcha mint chip, coconut salted caramel and saffron chai spice, which incorporate ingredients like functional mushrooms, matcha green tea, rosewater and peppermint essential oil. With a proprietary cold-crafting process, Sacred Serve preserves essential vitamins and minerals so that the frozen treats are densely packed with nutritional value.
Notably, the brand uses young coconut meat as the main ingredient in its products. As Sacred Serve's founder and CEO, Kailey Donewald, says: "To be clear, working with coconut milk would be a million times easier. Young coconut meat has less than half the calories and fat of coconut milk."
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Functional Ingredients
- Incorporating functional ingredients in food products can differentiate them and appeal to health-conscious consumers.
- Plant-based Desserts
- Plant-based desserts are growing in popularity as more consumers seek healthier dessert options.
- Cold-crafting Process
- Developing a proprietary cold-crafting process to preserve essential vitamins and minerals in frozen treats can create a unique selling point in the dessert market.
Where This Applies
- Food Manufacturing
- Food manufacturing companies can explore the use of functional ingredients and plant-based options to tap into the growing consumer demand for healthier desserts.
- Retail
- Retailers can introduce and promote plant-based gelato desserts to health-conscious consumers to capitalize on the trend.
- Functional Foods
- Developing functional foods, like desserts with beneficial superfood ingredients, can create innovative disruptions in the food industry and appeal to consumers looking for healthier food options.
