The Future of Food

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Victoria does a lot of research on disease trends, as they are often the precursor for food trends. And today, trends are global. We are increasingly connected, and there is increasing concern about the environmental impact of growing certain foods. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3xESioV Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3VLEml1 Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3RPJJyC EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/4cJwh7 Learn More: Are Galvanized Steel Garden Beds Safe?Connect With Victoria Pardo Uzitas:Victoria Pardo Uzitas is a distinguished Food Scientist with a remarkable track record of launching thousands of products, for hundreds of brands throughout the world. Having worked at Global Fortune 100 Food Companies, she is currently a Managing Partner at Ubiquity Biz, a Soup to Nuts boutique agency based in San Diego. She began growing her own food in 2000. Driven by her belief that "food can transform lives," Victoria finds her volunteer work at Kitchens for Good, a local nonprofit, exceptionally rewarding. Linkedin Ubiquity Biz Kitchen for Good Love Epic Gardening products?Apply to the Epic Affiliate Program. Shop the StoreAs an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Beat for episode 5 with Victoria, our food scientist, expert here, who is going to be talking about the future of trends and foods.
0:23.2	And this is actually something that you're well versed in
0:25.4	because you work a lot with these companies,
0:27.5	not just in food safety, but like product development
0:29.8	or consumer goods on these things.
0:31.6	So you kind of have a roadmap, like you could see
0:33.8	where things are going, like the shrubs in the past
0:36.2	being populated today.
0:37.5	You saw that coming.
0:38.3	So what's on your horizon now as you're looking around?
0:41.3	Well, it's very important to note that we do a lot of research here. We do a lot of
0:46.1	research and one of the things I do, my husband is in health care so I tend to follow this. I look
0:51.1	at disease processes and I look at disease trends because I'm a firm believer that
0:57.4	disease trends are the precursors of how people are going to eat. But then also, but so that's like on a broad scale of trends.
1:10.0	But the other thing is is take a look at where we are technologically and I'm just going to take my youngest child.
1:18.0	You know, you and I growing up, our parents growing up, we didn't have access to talking to people across the world or playing a game with them like my you know my child does so we're seeing a trend in in this new, this generation alpha of being more worldly in their eating habits
1:38.0	of wanting to try more food from a little more adventurous.
1:44.0	Yeah.
1:45.0	Huh.
1:46.0	And then so in that regard, it's actually interesting too because I think in the gardening world it's also kind of true right people want to grow
1:55.0	more exotic like to them like spices or herbs like for example ginger and turmeric have been extremely popular in the garden these past couple years.
2:05.0	People have loved growing up.
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