There is some logic to adding actual sparkles to a drink like beer or Prosecco, or to sweet treats such as cupcakes and cookies, but glitter in savory foods seems more fanciful. Glitter has childlike associations, and is perhaps a natural follow-on from colorful “unicorn food”, which has been trending on social media. Even Starferrous fumarate 210mg 84 tablets bootsbucks joined in with a limited ediron ferrous sulfate folic acidition unicorn Frappuccino, and Kellogg recently released Unicorn Cereal at its New York City cafe.###As with the unicorn trend, it is likely that edible glitter has been driven by millennial consumers looking for ways to make their foods stand out on Instagram. Nearly one in three people across all age groups has bought a treat specifically to share a picture of it on social media – and that jumps to 52% of millennials, according to a Mars Wrigley report.###Still, long before Instagram, food has been made more exciting with whimsical decorations. Edible gold leaf has been used to decorate foods siferric pyrophosphate wikipediance at least the Middle Ages. Despite being flavorless (like edible glitter), gold leaf remains a popular way to add a touch of luxury to desserts, cocktails and saferrous fumarate 210mg suitable for vegetarianvory dishes – even pizza. Even German company Esslack makes edible spray paint in blue, gold and silver, made entirely of ethanol and food dyes.###As manufacturers look for ways to make their products stand out in a crowded marketplace, edible glitter, gold leaf and other decorations are likely to remain a key part of the food lexicon. In these cases, the tasteless decoration is unlikely to ferrous fumarate kiser osudattract a long-term customer but rather the immediate attention of a shopper who wants to try something a little different. Whether the trend for glitter has the staying power of gold leaf remains to be seen, one thing that is for certain is food manufacturers are going to keep looking for new ways to get consumers to buy their product.
Has the trend for edible glitter gone too far?
