Are TV dinners back? Six food futures you need to know about

What will we be eating in the future? And what does that mean for the brands, manufacturers and developers trying to build products for a consumer whose relationship with food is changing faster than at any point in living memory?

Bompas & Parr have been making predictions about the future of food for nearly two decades, not through data models but through what Sam Bompas calls a zeitgeist approach: trust your gut, write the future you want to step into, and go back and check whether you were right. Mostly, they are. And if their latest six predictions are even half accurate, the implications for the food industry are significant.

In this episode of the Food Matters Live podcast, recorded at our London Olympia event, Sam Bompas and Pablo Britton from Bompas & Parr take the audience through their latest Future of Food report.

TV dinners: the argument that the television is becoming a cultural campfire again, and that the time is right for a properly designed food-to-match-the-show experience at home. 

Gastro void: the risk that as biohackers treat food as a problem to be solved, we optimise the meaning, friction and communal experience out of eating entirely.

And boomer drinkers: why the most exciting innovation opportunity in drinks may be with older consumers whose palates have genuinely changed and whose relationship to sophisticated flavour is under-appreciated. 

All that and more features in this high-energy episode!

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