Founded by Kevin Eve and Jacob Conway who had a passion to provide consumers with healthy plant-based beverages, Uproot provides a convenient solution while increasing sustainability through packaging reduction.
In the past few years, retailers and restaurants alike have seen a swift rise in nut milks, coconut milk and most recently, oat milk. These growing options are all tied into greater consumer demand for plant-based alternatives.
No Natural Products Expo West? No problem. Imbibe identifies five top trends and tastes impacting new beverage development.
June 17, 2020
Every year, Natural Products Expo West is one of the industry’s top exhibitions for discovering new products and analyzing trends. Although year’s spring event in Anaheim, Calif., was canceled, beverage products developer Imbibe has identified five headline-making trends and tastes.
Prepared Foods gets an inside look with Califia Farms co-founder, CEO Greg Steltenpohl
March 25, 2020
Califia Farms is perhaps best known for its refrigerated cold brew beverages and plant milks in distinctive, contoured 48oz plastic bottles (reminiscent of traditional milk bottles). It also processes and sells refrigerated oat milk creamers and yogurts in 25.4oz plastic bottles and plant-based drinkable yogurts in single-serve 8oz varieties.
Desire for healthier sources of protein across categories drives plant-based trends
May 1, 2019
In the beverage industry, juices are most suited to delivering plant-based benefits. Nevertheless, water producers have been blurring boundaries between juice and water by infusing their products with fruits and vegetables.
ON DEMAND: This webinar will explore how specialty enzymes can be utilized by manufacturers to produce creamy, foamy plant-based milk, melty, stretchy cheeses, and buttery plant-based oils.
ON DEMAND: Successfully developing and producing these products means accommodating their unique needs in both R&D and production. We will take a high-level look at how these products differ from their dairy counterparts and how this affects the choice of process styles (indirect vs. steam injection), process and temperature requirements, homogenization location and pressure requirements.
ON DEMAND: Prepared Foods hosts its third annual Plant-Based Foods webinar and explores tastes, trends and technologies in the growing plant-based foods market.