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Each year McCormick & Company, a Fortune 1000 company that manufactures spices, flavourings and herbs for retail, commercial and industrial markets across the world, release their Flavour Forecast for the coming year – and this year is no different. So, let’s dive straight in to see what will inspire and entice us in 2018.

Handheld Flavour Fusion

We all know that protein is essential to our bodies – it plays a myriad of roles from providing cell structure and strength, to aiding our immune system. The building blocks of protein are called amino acids and there are 22 specific types inherent to the process – 13 of these are produced by the body, nine are not and they must be sourced from the foods we eat. While plant-based foods will provide some of these amino acids, it is only animal-based protein that provide all nine in one go.

Eat This, Not That! is an American organisation begun in 2007 to better identify the caloric and nutritional content of every day food, particularly that sold by the fast food industry. In their role as public watch dog, they have encouraged various food chains to not only be more transparent about what goes into their food, but to also introduce healthier options.

We’re all familiar with the dreaded mid-afternoon slump – your brain feels fuzzy, you lack energy and your focus (what focus) is all over the show. Too many of us reach for a quick fix, like another cup of coffee or a sugar rush of some kind, but the result is short-lived and perpetuates the cycle.