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White Paper | Walnuts: New Product Development Guide

November 18, 2020
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Walnuts are a versatile ingredient with applications throughout food and beverage categories, ranging from plant-based meat alternatives to snack bars. Recent developments in health, food science and flavor research have caused product developers around the world to examine how walnuts can be used in new product formulations.


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Plant Based Foods 2.0

How research chefs are moving consumers closer to plant-centered eating
Amelia Levin
August 28, 2020
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Plant-based is here to stay. In fact, it likely will be even more of a wave in the future, due to the growing desire among consumers to cut down on, or completely eliminate meat consumption for health and/or out of concern for the environment.
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Oatly to Expand with $200 Million Equity Investment

Oatly’s founders will reinvest in the company’s growth by providing additional capital
July 17, 2020
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As minority shareholders, the new investors will join the company’s existing partners, including Verlinvest-CR JV and the company’s founders, on Oatly’s dynamic journey. As part of this transaction, Oatly’s founders will also be reinvesting in the company’s growth by providing additional capital.
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Home Chef Announces Collaboration with Impossible Foods

Home Chef will offer recipes for customers to exchange traditional animal-based proteins for the plant-based Impossible Burger
July 17, 2020
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Home Chef, one of the leading meal kit delivery companies with 3.5 million meals delivered each month, announces a new collaboration with Impossible Foods. Each week, Home Chef will offer several recipes where customers can choose to swap out traditional animal-based proteins for the award-winning, plant-based Impossible Burger as part of its "Customize It" feature.
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DSM & Avril: Plant-Based Proteins

DSM and Avril form Olatein joint venture to produce canola (rapeseed) proteins for global food market
July 16, 2020
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Protein is a crucial part of a healthy diet. As the world’s population heads towards 10 billion by 2050, more protein will be needed that is produced within planetary boundaries. To help meet the growing demand for proteins, DSM and Avril have established a partnership (75/25) and formed Olatein.
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Sweet Earth Foods Awesome Bacon Burger

The Sweet Earth Awesome Bacon Burger is a smoky plant-based burger infused with vegan bacon bits
July 15, 2020
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The Sweet Earth® Awesome Bacon Burger is a smoky plant-based burger infused with vegan bacon bits. Made of textured pea protein, this plant-based burger contains 26g of protein per serving (27% DV) and is non-GMO project certified.
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Butter Buds: Best of Both Worlds: Dairy, Non-Dairy

Butter Buds showcases dairy, non-dairy, organic and clean label ingredients at IFT20
July 14, 2020
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Butter Buds® Inc. used the 2020 Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo (IFT20) virtual event to showcase its on-trend, better-for-you flavor ingredients. Virtual attendees can discover new solutions made possible with Butter Buds plant-based dairy-alternative ingredients. Other non-dairy, certified organic and clean-label ingredients will also be on show.
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AAK USA: Specialty Fats, Oils

AAK USA highlights virtual, on-trend tastes for IFT20
July 14, 2020
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AAK USA Inc., one of the world’s leading manufacturers of value-adding specialty vegetable fats and oils, featured a wide range of specialty fats and oils solutions for the 2020 Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo (IFT20) virtual event. 
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Conagra Brands Launches More Than Two Dozen New Products

New meals and snacks include products inspired by trends including plant-based meals, keto-friendly diets and more
July 10, 2020
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Conagra Brands, Inc. is celebrating the summer with the debut of more than two dozen new products. More people are cooking and eating at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Birds Eye®, Marie Callender's®, Healthy Choice® and Snack Pack® are among the brands bringing new items to market to satisfy evolving consumer needs. The new items from Conagra Brands will be hitting store shelves this summer. 
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Webinar Broadcasting Live September 12-13, 2022

9/12/22 to 9/12/23
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Two Perspectives: Leveraging Health & Well-Being Trends to Deliver on Clear Food Philosophies

ON DEMAND: Broadcasting Live Session from New Products Conference: It’s clear consumers want globally-inspired, plant-forward, sustainable foods and beverages. The first half of this presentation will examine the delivery of authentic nutrition that meets consumer demands. 

Even in the face of strong trends, many food companies struggle to evolve their brands and innovation strategy. This second talk covers the importance of a clear food philosophy to guide R&D—and how that approach drives innovation.

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Webinar Broadcasting Live September 12-13, 2022

9/13/22 to 9/13/23
Contact: Meg M.

Plant the Flag! Where Activism Meets Innovation in Plant-Based Products

ON DEMAND: Broadcasting Live Session from New Products Conference: Often the most inspired business innovation comes from outside the business realm. It comes from real life and real need demonstrated in other areas. This exclusive NPC session considers consumer insights as well as the latest plant-based product trends at both retail and foodservice.

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Plant Based Foods

Plant-based proteins aren’t just for vegans and vegetarians anymore as US consumers seek more protein in their diets and plant-based foods become more available and tastier. Higher demand for plant-based proteins is evidenced by the 19% growth in cases shipped of these proteins from broadline foodservice distributors to independent (one to two units) and micro-chain (three to 19 units) restaurant operators in the year ending March 2018 compared to same period year ago, according to The NPD Group. In-home consumption trends are also showing an increase in consumer demand with a 24% increase since 2015.

Posted: August 6, 2018

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