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Step aside, brightly frosted cronut (croissant-doughnut), juice diet and kale craze! Social media users have crowned their new "it" food of 2016.

Food trends hit us all the time in the age of social media, although most don't last. Nevertheless, they allow food brands and businesses to see the consumers' growing appetite for change and that helps them respond quickly with new ideas.

Let's take a look at some of this year's delicacies that created most buzz on social media at home and abroad.