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Dessert Desserts

Even with consumers increasingly purees this year. Expect to also see
Trends making better-for-me diet choices, more dessert menus containing
they are not ready to desert their
creative options for special diets
desserts! We still want our sweet like keto and vegan (51%). And
treats, but in healthier avatars that continuing the overall trend of
The Indian sweet tooth is legendary, and for many allow us our occasional guilt-free sourcing locally, chances are that you
of us, meetha is a must at least once a day! This indulgences. Over 70% of our will see a lot more local, artisanal
love for sweets drives the booming dessert industry experts believe that we will see more or bean-to-bar chocolate (40%)
in India to constantly innovate in order to keep up dessert options that contain no offerings in the chocolate section of
with evolving lifestyle choices and diet preferences added sugar, or are made with your favourite store this year.
of their customers. In this section, we examine natural sweeteners, and fruit
where our sweet tooth will take us in 2019.

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Healthier claims (eg. No added sugar, Naturally sweetened, Fruit puree-based etc.) 73%

Special diet-based desserts (eg. Keto brownies, Vegan ice cream) 51%

Locally sourced artisanal & bean-to-bar chocolates 40%

Reviival of traditional Indian desserts and mithaiis 39%

Indian-inspired ice cream flavours
(eg. Masala chai, Nolen gur etc.) 33%

Everyone is health-conscious these days and rightly so.
Understanding what is in your dessert is as important as
choosing sustainable ingredients these days. This is why
diet-based and healthier version of desserts will be big
in 2019, as well as using sustainable and locally-sourced
ingredients such artisanal cacao and nuts.
Chef Rishim Sachdeva

In 2019, I see people focussing on health & adopting health-
forming diets rather than quick-fad weight-loss diets, which
indicates a definitive change in the dessert offerings. I see a
significant change in the Indian palate for sweets. There will be
curious experimentation of different dessert pairings & an increase
in demand for lactose free & gluten free, low sugar sweets,
chocolates & desserts. Zeba Kohli