Sweetcorn ice creams and pastries: The latest 'swavoury' trend taking over your feed

Sincity Press Staff 3 hours ago 1 min read 4
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From lattes to pastries, UK foodies are embracing the humble sweetcorn as more than a pizza topping.

Lisa Harris, co‑founder of the nutrition consultancy Harris & Hayes, says increasing involvement sweetcorn is besides partially down to the UK's "unstoppable" appetite for South Korean food, which is "changing however we eat". Pereira has continued to champion corn, precocious making a Brazilian lemonade - which uses limes alternatively of lemons - and pairing it with maize milk. But Hejazi says its usage successful drinks and desserts is inactive "an emerging trend" and hasn't yet deed the mainstream successful the UK. So, is it translating to real-life demand? We're not yet seeing sweetcorn beverage stocked successful supermarkets and maize lattes astatine mainstream java chains. But Natalie TJ, who co-runs an Asian-inspired bakery successful London, says her cornmilk matcha portion has been 1 of the astir fashionable drinks this summertime – 2nd lone to the bakery's Hong Kong beverage tea. "Many java shops successful Asia merchantability maize beverage matcha," she says, adding that customers person astir apt been seeking retired the portion astatine the cafe arsenic it is not arsenic communal arsenic different matcha combinations successful the UK.