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Nexira, a leader in acacia fiber and natural plant-based ingredients for the food, nutrition and health industries, announced its acquisition of the Swiss company UNIPEKTIN Ingredients AG, a specialist and leader in natural hydrocolloids and premium ingredients. 

Since “dairy-free dairy” must deliver on a range of consumer needs, consumers who seek dairy alternatives due to an allergy or lactose sensitivity may want dairy alternatives that have comparable nutritional profiles to a dairy counterpart.

The company's patent-pending discovery platform combines machine-learning algorithms and a precision biofermentation process. The result is a spectrum of novel plant-based ingredients that require a small fraction of the land, energy, and water footprint of animal-derived eggs, meat, milk, and gelatins. 

Pleese® Plant Based Pizza Shreds product is available for restaurant operators, food manufacturers and culinary directors who are looking for a trifecta in vegan cheese: taste, texture and melt. 

The plant-based dairy alternative category is an enormous market opportunity, with emerging brands racing to innovate in items such as beverages, frozen desserts and vegan slices, among others. To help companies and startups differentiate from their competition, Kerry has developed and released a leading-edge Plant-based Dairy Alternative Toolkit.

Butter Buds Inc., a global leader in dairy and non-dairy concentrates, offers several solutions to help manufacturers overcome common formulation challenges associated with using pea protein in meat/meat alternative applications. Butter Buds ingredients help improve both the flavor and texture of pea-protein products for great-tasting, clean label foods. 

Merit Functional Foods, a solutions-based protein ingredients company, is unveiling its newest performance nutrition product concept innovations at SupplySide West 2021.

AAK, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of value-adding specialty vegetable fats and oils, invites SupplySide West (SSW) attendees to discover the latest solutions for innovative plant-based foods, infant nutrition and healthy aging products. 

Only Plant Based! introduced a range of plant-based mayos and sauces that are shelf stable, heatable and egg-free. The products can be consumed by vegans, flexitarians and omnivores alike.

Health is one of the 12 megatrends recently defined by the Future Institute in Frankfurt. It informs all facets of daily life and dominates entire lifestyles.