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From Scotland, the award-winning vegan cheese that is taking the market by storm
From the beautiful Isle of Bute in Scotland, Bute Island Foods was the first company in the UK to produce vegan cheese alternative Sheese in 1988. The company’s first vegan cheese was a cheddar-style soya-based cheese alternative.
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A divine alternative to synthetic preservatives
In Greek mythology, the people of ancient Attica chose Athena as their patron after the goddess gifted them the first olive tree ever. The Athenians quickly discovered the multiple uses of the oily berry. But olives held more secrets yet. After years of research, PolyHealth developed a way to extract molecules from the fruit and turn them into natural food preservatives.
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Are you ready for the food of tomorrow?
What do insects taste like?
Straight from Vilnius, we had the pleasure of meeting Divaks in Paris at Food Ingredients Europe 2022. This Lithuanian food-tech company develops high-quality insect-derived ingredients to enhance your product’s quality and nutritional properties.
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White chlorella as your next protein source!
Have you ever heard of white chlorella? Chlorella is often known for its high nutritional value and its iconic signature color – green! Chlorophyll in the algae causes chlorella’s distinctive green color, and this element is also the cause of marine taste and acidic flavor.
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Trust the nature. Paula ingredients, the company that produces dried fruits only from seasonal products
Each season has its own beauty… and its own fresh products!
This is the motto of the Polish company PAULA Ingredients, which ultimately relies on the seasonality of food products. In-season fruits and veggies are fresher, taste better, and have higher nutritional value than out-of-season food products.
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Stop facepalming at palm oil, start using fermented alternatives
For all the bad rep that it gets, palm oil still makes up around 40% of the global vegetable oil supply, according to WWF estimates. Alternative oils pose fewer risks to biodiversity and carbon release, but producing them is not as efficient. This puts the food manufacturing industry in a sticky situation.
But one company picked up this challenge. Its ultimate mission is clear from the name: NoPalm Ingredients.
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Try this spoonful of fermented buckwheat snack!
Is this yogurt, smoothie, or kombucha? It’s Spoothie!
Spoothie is a fermented buckwheat product that has a consistency between smoothie and yogurt; it is too watery to be yogurt, but it is too thick for a drink. Spoothie has a sticky texture and tangy flavor, similar to kombucha, created from fermentation.
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Let's save "ugly" sweet potatoes with Batasta!
Would sweet potato pasta be sweet? That was the first question we asked when we encountered sweet potato pasta.
Batasta presented three different colors of sweet potato pasta to us - white, light orange or light purple - which, of course, are based on the color of the sweet potato they used. Read more
Chips plus protein minus gluten
We spotted a guilt-free potato chip at the Free From Functional & Health Ingredients. The high-fiber, high-protein, low-fat, gluten-free chips from New Snacks are a bag of crispy lightness.
But the ultimate test for chips is their crunch.
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Drinks producer sees a glass half-full after taking out additives
The back label of a bottle is more important than the front label. Beverage manufacturers use a formula of additives to ‘correct’ the base ingredients according to the taste expectations of consumers.
But Soof Drinks decided to move down the opposite direction, cutting all additives.
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When soil is a scarce resource, go soilless
Due to their healthy properties, the market of blueberries has expanded rapidly over the past year and their popularity has no sign of stopping.
Blueberries, like other fruits, need the right climate and soil to grow.
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This robot will happily carry your fruit harvest
Fruit and vegetable pickers spend 30% of their time hauling the harvest back to base.
And that’s only a conservative estimate, Sandro Rabbiosi tells us.
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There was a time when frost was just a fact of life
When a dry, windless night follows a cold snap, growers know they can expect a layer of frost on their crops in the morning.
But the real harm is caused beneath the surface.
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Is it a bird or a fertilizer-saving energy-preserving spray drone?
To be honest, when we talked to Tamás BORI we thought we had been catapulted into a sci-fi movie.
Using spraying drones in the agricultural industry is still a new thing, but it is gaining momentum thanks to the relaxation of drone laws by various countries.
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One filling solution for all pharma containers
Pharmaceutical packaging is a mix & match of liquids/pastes/creams/solids & vials/cartridges/syringes/tubes. And this is not even the entire range of options available today.
We asked how many machines pharma manufacturers need to fill the different formulas into the right container format.
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Refix, the company that turns Galician seawater into a healthy drink
The cure for everything is seawater.
While most people probably think that the healing powers of seawater are a myth, someone actually believed it.
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Keep track of your medicine every day with FabriSol sticker
Did I take my medicine this morning or not?
Let's be honest. How often have we asked ourselves this question and failed to find an answer simply because… our memory sometimes doesn’t serve us right!
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Automated visual inspection for pharmaceutical applications. Small scale companies, are you in?
Automatic visual inspection of vials, ampoules, and syringes is a well-known and established industrial practice.
However, when it comes to small scale, it’s a different matter.
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Turning grass into pharmaceutical packaging
Do you know how long it takes a tree to grow?
To answer this question precisely, you have to consider various factors such as climate or the tree species, but generally, it takes a tree 10 to 40 years to reach maturity.
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Chickpea protein for your plant-based food product!
Chickpeas for pumping up your muscle!
If you are looking for a meat, dairy, or egg protein alternative, you can try out @ChickP protein. This plant-based protein powder is, as you have guessed, made out of chickpeas!
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