Top Health Food Trends This Year

Food trends are like fashion trends, only less fickle, tastier and definitely appealing to a larger audience. Food trends come and go. The year 2014 is all about healthy dining. Our reporters were on the ground for the top health food trends for the year.

1. Clean Eating.

Clean eating is the new word for healthy eating. Clean eating is all about staying off all harmful foods and saying yes to the more beneficial foods. It means eating more vegetables, less sodium, less meat, consuming less alcohol, limiting your intake of processed foods and choosing more whole grains. The trend encourages keeping away from processed foods in favor of more organic options.

2. Cauliflower is the "it" vegetable

Cauliflower is the new "it" vegetable. So kale chips are still everywhere you turn, but cauliflower is challenging its reign on the grocery lists nationwide. The vegetable is loaded with nutrients ad essential vitamins. The vegetable can also serve all sorts of culinary tricks. From standing in for starchier and high calorie potatoes to turning kitchen stew rich and sweet without cream. The vegetable is definitely a must have on all food shelves this year.

3. Fermentation, fermentation, fermentation.

The ancient art of fermentation is hot again. Fermentation harnesses the power of simple microbes to transform the favoring and texturing of foods like milk into creamy yoghurt, tea into bubbly and sweet kombucha and cabbage into sauerkraut. The trend is everywhere. Fermentation guru Sandor Katz's latest book "The Art of Fermentation," won a James Beard Award this year, kombucha brewing is stands are cropping up at farmer's markets across the state and rows of sauerkrauts are filling up shelves of large super market chains everywhere.  Plus, the first fermentation bar popped up in Healdsburg California, serving the local community with kefir waters, shrubs and kombuchas, of course alongside wine and beer.

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