The nation’s love affair with flowers is set to grow stronger as Waitrose launches a salad celebrating the hot taste of Nasturtium leaves this week.
The Waitrose Garden Salad with Nasturtium Leaves (£1.79 for 80g) is the UK’s first supermarket salad to contain a fiery culinary variety of Nasturtium.
Nasturtium leaves not only provide the salad with colour they also add a powerful punch as each leaf gives a peppery kick.
The launch of this salad forms part of the growing trend for flower foods.
The supermarket’s range of floral inspired cupcakes with flavours such as Cherry & Geranium and Lemon & Lavender have proven popular with sales up 53% and 48% respectively.
Neil Nugent, Waitrose executive chef, said: “Floral flavours were once considered the taste of a more mature shopper.
“However with girl-only dinner parties and retro afternoon teas becoming all the rage, our culinary tastes are blooming.
“Flower power has become the gastronomic must-have and the Waitrose Garden Salad with Nasturtium Leaves is bound to impress guests.”
Source: Waitrose
