Top 5 ingredients and menu items for full-service restaurants

Technomic research is singling out interesting veggies, global options and
non-alcohol beverage ingredients as growing in popularity on full-service restaurant menus in Canada.

In its latest Industry Insights report, the firm identified the five most popular specific ingredients and menu items:

• Unagi (eel) sauce typically found in sushi rolls.
• mango sauce
• ramen noodles
• parsnip, often found accompanying beef, pork or lamb dishes
• grenadine, made from pomegranate and most often found in mocktails (which Technomic said are up nearly 23 per cent year over year on menus)