FUTURE or FAD? Taste Testing the Latest Food Trend Products

Today Chef Ben, Mike and Barry review some of the latest food and drinks trend products on the market. Are they here to stay or will they fade away?!

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[uhohspaghettios-rq]

Additional note on freeze dried herbs. Living in rural Oklahoma, i didscovered Lofthouse freeze dried herbs when i go to the "big city" for a big grocery haul. This gives me access to herbs i can rarely if ever find locally and cheaper than buying the ones that may be available occasionally (and often better quality.)

[TheDahakon]

Sustainability is about more than just the transport CO2. I suspect that if the answer to sustainability is replacing glass usage with more plastic, the wrong question is being asked.

[Cationna]

The only reason to replace glass containers is not sustainability, it's ease of transport and storage for the producers. Glass is The sustainable packaging, while paper necessitates deforestation which really stopped being a talking point somehow despite being one of the worst ways we influence the environment, and plastic rarely gets recycled in plastic, but even then, not indefinitely, is still harmful afterwards, and in the meantime may be more harmful to humans than we currently realise.

[robynwellfare]

Jux also solves the problem of people not wanting "The Ugly Veg", which is so much better for the Farmer not having to waste his resources on stock he can't sell = Less food wastage, and an up yours to the supermarkets who won't buy ugly veg 👏👏
Good job Jux

[samfisher]

"Cardboard sleeve with a food grade pouch". So boxed wine. This is boxed wine with extra steps.

[annfromma]

For Christmas this year, I am making "soup in a jar" using freeze dried vegetables, stock cubes, mini pastas and other seasonings. All the recipient needs to do is add the mix into the appropriate amount of water and if wanted, add some protein. Super easy for them and me. The hardest part was developing the correct quantities of the items in the jar. But eating the "failures" wasn't a hardship. It makes a delicious pasta and vegetable soup, right out of the jar.

[gnomersy]

I'm very skeptical of any claims that plastic is "recyclable" because all that means is that it is theoretically possible for them to recycle it in some form. From what I've seen most places in the world do not recycle plastic even if it goes into "recycling bins" because plastic isn't profitable to recycle. It tends to degrade in the recycling process and it is usually cheaper to make more plastic than it is to recycle old plastic to reuse.

[hillppari]

Glass is the most green thing. you can use again forever just remelt. paper bottles are just dumb because they are lined with plastic anyways.

[natviolen]

It's sad that glas packaging is about to be phased out.
I'm all in for reducing environmental footprint, but how many times haven't we been told that a synthetic material was food safe, just to find out years later that it wasn't anyway. No chemicals are leaching into my food from glass.
And what about plastic recycling? Seems it's not that easy and effective.

[samjohnrandall]

I bought the Jux dried herbs and veg after seeing this and I am so impressed. I have a gastrointestinal issue that means I’m often only able to eat puréed/mashed food. The carrot, onion and beetroot added to instant mash makes an amazing flavourful and nourishing meal. Thank you. 🙏

[KungKokkos]

It's a bag in box in bottle shape, okay. If you really want to lower carboon footprint, just make it a box so you don't waste space when packing. It's not an innovation, it's a pretentious version of an already existing and more functional design.

[Bennigames]

I don't like the idea of those bottles for spirits. People often keep those for decades in glass bottles and I cannot see the plastic not leeching or breaking down in some way being exposed to that for multiple years. A plastic bottle of water mostly has a shelf life for < 1 year exactly because of that issue, is that just not a factor here?

[Morgan]

I'm not sold on the cardboard wine bottles. While glass bottles are heavier and more cumbersome, they are made out of a much more recyclable material than the pouches inside the cardboard. While the plastic bag inside is "more" recyclable than typical plastic, I feel like its just an alternative rather than an improvement.

[AdamTheGuitarist]

"plastic that can be recycled" - Im sorry that is a scam. While it can be (mostly only once) the price of virgin plastic is so cheap that it NEVER will... Glass bottles are reusable infinitely and recyclable infinitely...

[momma]

There is a bakery here in Sweden that recycle all old bread turn that into a mush that helps make new bread. 99% of all glassbottles are recycled here. We have bags that looks and feels plastic but are made out of like cornstarch.

[gpoetx]

Sorry, but to me glass is king. No worrying about any residual type chemicals we find about 20 years later in plastics that are killing us some how.

[MrVenatr]

Good thing about the cardboard bottle is your neighbours won't hear the telltale clinking of your alcoholic recycling.

[inkavanderbijl]

The gin bottle is basically just a tetra pak which has been used for decades.

[broklond]

Changing up glass with something that contains plastic is questionable at best. In an ideal world it could be great, but it won't be recycled and plastic bags are a major contributor to microplastics, because they break down faster.
They definitely just try to sell you a cheaper bottling method, by greenwashing it...

[Drcats]

12:59 "i dont understand that, its all i eat."

God same. Just the biggest mood from hearing him say it.