From the 80s onwards, a fast-food lifestyle started taking over the modern nations for various reasons: mothers stopped staying at home and started contributing to the corporate workforce, fast food restaurants were popping up on every corner of every street and eating fast food was cheaper and quicker than fine-dining or cooking something from scratch. When breakfasts and one dollar cheeseburgers were introduced at McDonald’s, it seemed like all the meals of the day were taken care of by just detouring through a drive-thru. However, since the 2000s, people have started getting more intelligent it seems, asking the right questions and investigating the source of everything on their plates. The media has also played a positive contributing role in finding out what were are being served. Many exposés and confrontations later, the world has gotten to know that the brown paper bags containing burgers, fries and a coke was actually a bags stuffed with cancer-causing chemicals disguised in the form of brown, crunchy wonderfulness.
“Millennials” as the work-age people of today are called, are becoming smarter. Yes, the are on the run as their parents of the 80s and 90s once were, and are in fact busier because this is the dawn of the age of social media and mobile networking, but they still make it a point to try and put healthy food into their mouths. Instead of a deep fried hash brown, they choose a ripe banana or apple or blitz it all up with juicy berries. They have also now educated themselves to read the tables and minute asterisked sentences at the back of the pack. They can decipher what are calories and calories from fat. They can tell you that just because a soda claims to be zero calories doesn’t mean that it is healthy to eat. They know what they are eating, and that is brilliant. The future of food eating seems to be looking positive because people are making the right choices for themselves and their loved ones.
Now it isn’t only about consuming fast food because it is the “culture” as millennials are more open to tasting cuisines from around the world that contain natural and diverse ingredients. Also, thanks to blogging and Youtube, you can get access to easy-to-prepare recipes from any corner of the earth. Health and whole food stores are also cropping up at convenient locations that make fresh, raw food easily available. More specific diets such as gluten free, vegan, dairy free, etc. are giving people the option to choose what they want to eat that they feel is the most beneficial for their own bodies. Out of all the revolutionary developments taking place in the millennial world, it is good to know that food is also making a gourmet comeback in a big way!
Gluten Free and Vegan are two terms that we hear of most often with regard to diet plans. These weren’t even considered before, but now more and more people are embracing this way of eating because both stress more on plant-based diets and choose to avoid processed foods and manufactured products along with sugar-based snacks as much as possible. Now even restaurants are offering meals based on the principles of these two dietary plans as more and more choose a healthier way of living and eating.
Read this interesting article from Forbes.com about How Millennials Are Changing Food As We Know It.
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