2025 Tertiary Flavour Forecast recipe challenge
Culinary nutrition is not just for health professionals; it is something we can all embrace to improve our individual health and wellbeing. Exploring new flavours and food trends is a fun and engaging way to add variety to our diets and learn how to cook with new ingredients.
All Australian undergraduate, honours, and master students are invited to take up this challenge. Select one flavour trend that inspires you and begin creating and experimenting with exciting new recipes!
About 2025 flavour trends
The three flavour trends identified in the Flavour Forecast 25th Edition are:
- Tropical Vibes
- Charred & Smoked
- Deliciously Unexpected
These trends are detailed in McCormick's 2025 Flavour Forecast.
Design brief
Recipe challenge design brief [link coming April 2025]
Entry form
2025 entry form [link coming April 2025]
Resources to support the recipe challenge
[Videos to come]
- Discretionary choices
- Handy recipes [link coming April 2025]
- Justification tips [link coming April 2025]
- Photography tips
- Recipe challenge costings
- Terms and conditions [link coming April 2025]
- Trend 1 handy hints [link coming April 2025]
- Trend 2 handy hints [link coming April 2025]
- Trend 3 handy hints [link coming April 2025]
Past winners of the Tertiary Flavour Forecast recipe challenge
Many students across Australia from a range of universities have participated in the recipe competition, which opened up in 2024 to all students, not just those studying home economics-related fields. Explore past winners [link coming soon] and the fantastic, creative original recipes they created.
