Leave it to the French to come up with a food product as ingenious and unexpected as these luminous little flavor pearls. Designed to maximize both your visual and gustatory enjoyment of a meal—and, hello, save you time—they pack a lot of flavor into one small package. Each soft pearl consists of a soft shell made of alginate (a seaweed extract) covering a liquid core in either savory, sweet or fruity flavors. Drop a few blackberry pearls into a glass of Champagne for an unexpected Kir Royale, scatter a few lemon and pepper pearls over slices of avocado, or serve the vinegar and shallot pearls with raw oysters—there’s no limit to what you can do with these handy little treasures.