Corn Milk

Maize has been drunk as well as eaten for millennia. In Mesoamerica, where the crop was first domesticated some 9,000 years ago, the Aztec and Maya simmered ground corn into atole, a warm, comforting drink still sold on Mexican streets every morning. Across Southeast Asia, sweet corn milk is a beloved chilled treat pressed from fresh kernels. Now the carton era has arrived: Maïzly, a North American brand, makes a non-GMO corn milk designed to froth like dairy, and it's won awards from the Specialty Coffee Association. Corn milk is naturally sweet and almost custard-like, and it tastes unapologetically of sweetcorn. It's lovely in coffee, works in desserts and puddings, and poured over ice it'll start conversations.

Emerging — few commercial brands yet