Chasing food trends can be profitableChasing food trends can be profitable

Yesterday, I had homemade chia pudding for breakfast, a veggie Burrito Bowl from Chipotle Mexican Grill for lunch, and for dinner I munched a big salad topped with quinoa that would make Elaine Benes of “Seinfeld” proud.

Then I washed it down with a ginger-spiked kombucha and some carbonated water made with my beloved Sodastream.

So yes, you could say I have a thing for food trends. Especially the allegedly healthful ones.

This doesn’t mean that I’m not known to indulge in wine or French fries or a big juicy steak. I live in what’s arguably one of the snootier “foodie” parts of Brooklyn, N.Y.; love gourmet ramen; and have proselytized the joys of pork fat in previous columns. Heck, as I write this I’m dreaming of the mint julep I’m going to...