The flavor of the week is sunchoke. Sunchoke is in the inception part of the adaption cycle of a menu. It is found in about one percent of menus in the country and is up 68 percent over just the past four years. The highest awareness of the the sunchoke is in millenials, with 28 percent of the population knowing about it. Only 12 percent of the population has tried it though. It should continue to grow in popularity.

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