Here’s a taste of the next big food thing

New flavors and products on way to store shelves

Every year, thousands of food brands head to New York to show off their wares and entice buyers from grocery stores to stock their products. It’s a trade show titled the Fancy Foods Show, and it’s one of the best places to catch trends before they hit grocery store shelves. New products make their debuts there, and months later, they appear on the shelves of your local Whole Foods Market. (Also, when it comes to free samples, the place is like an all-you-can-eat buffet.) Trendy turmeric? We called it. Gochujang is the new Sriracha, and souping is the new juicing? Yeah, we knew that in 2017.

Here are the flavors and products that are going to be big over the next year: products that go beyond your basic cauliflower rice.

Caulipower has a cauliflower-based baking mix, in regular and paleo-friendly. Glean also makes cauliflower flour. Kitchen & Love sells cauliflower cups intended to be a quick convenience meal in three globally inspired flavors. If you need more than an individual serving, Path of Life has cauliflower fried rice in the frozen aisle. From the Ground Up has cauliflowerbased replacements for all of your favorite junk food, such as pretzel sticks and Cheez-Its.

And there’s cauliflower in chocolate ice cream — yes, ice cream — by Peekaboo. Don’t worry, it tastes like chocolate ice cream. Kombucha + booze: Kombucha is great, but wouldn’t it be even better if it could get you tipsy? Now, it can. The fermented tea drink has a tiny amount of alcohol in it, but some companies are upping the alcohol by volume (ABV). Wild Tonic’s Jun Kombucha is fermented until it reaches 5.6 percent ABV, making it slightly boozier than many beers. Another new beverage isn’t technically kombucha, but it’s going after the same health-conscious drinker. Willie’s Superbrew makes a fermented fruit drink with 4.5 ABV. It’s the kind of light, fruity drink that would be good next to a pool on a hot summer’s day.