{"id":753317,"date":"2026-08-29T06:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753317\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T06:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:58:10","slug":"why-sweetcorn-treats-are-the-latest-swavoury-uk-food-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753317\/","title":{"rendered":"Why sweetcorn treats are the latest &#8216;swavoury&#8217; UK food trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u200b\u200bLisa Harris, co-founder of food consultancy Harris &amp; Hayes, says growing interest in sweetcorn is also partly down to the UK&#8217;s &#8220;unstoppable&#8221; appetite for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cm2vx07lj08o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Korean food<\/a>, which is &#8220;changing how we eat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pereira has continued to champion corn, recently making a Brazilian lemonade &#8211; which uses limes instead of lemons &#8211; and pairing it with corn milk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Hejazi says its use in drinks and desserts is still &#8220;an emerging trend&#8221; and hasn&#8217;t yet hit the mainstream in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, is it translating to real-life demand?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;re not yet seeing sweetcorn milk stocked in supermarkets and corn lattes at mainstream coffee chains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Natalie TJ, who co-runs an Asian-inspired bakery in London, says her cornmilk matcha drink has been one of the most popular drinks this summer \u2013 second only to the bakery&#8217;s Hong Kong milk tea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Many coffee shops in Asia sell corn milk matcha,&#8221; she says, adding that customers have probably been seeking out the drink at the cafe as it is not as common as other matcha combinations in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200b\u200bLisa Harris, co-founder of food consultancy Harris &amp; Hayes, says growing interest in sweetcorn is also partly down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-753317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}