Protein

Equinom and AGT Food and Ingredients Inc. entered into an agreement to co-create a portfolio of plant-based functional ingredients produced from Equinom yellow pea varieties.

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Nutiani will offer customers end-to-end solutions through a combination of wellbeing nutrition products, concepts, and services that leverage the Co-op’s intellectual property and investments in research.

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The concept is based on whey and milk protein ingredients from the company’s Lacprodan range. It ensures that rich chocolate mass retains its flavor and softness throughout shelf life and offers 30% protein per bar, allowing for high-protein claims.

Under this new partnership, ADM will process and commercialize a portfolio of proprietary ingredients made up from Benson Hill Ultra-High Protein (UHP) soybeans.

Using this method, the company can produce protein isolates, natural colors, flavor enhancers, gluten substitutes, and other useful compounds.

Maolac says it will use the funds to build a facility with small-scale production capabilities.

A recent animal study found that fermentation with shiitake mushroom mycelium may result in improvements in digestibility, nutritional value, physical properties, and organoleptic characteristics of pea and rice protein.

The company’s goal is to develop and optimize microorganisms in order to produce organic compounds such as proteins.

Merit Functional Foods announced that its Peazazz pea protein may be used to replace methylcellulose, an ingredient commonly used in meat alternatives as a binding and gelling agent.

This is the next step in Equinom’s plans to scale up and commercialize its innovative yellow pea proteins.

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Even when used at higher double-digit protein inclusion percentages, the pea protein does not exhibit a chalky mouthfeel, says Merit Functional Foods.

FoodTech startup ChickP has developed a prototype of protein isolates that overcome challenges common to plant-based beverages like dairy-free coffee and cappuccino.

Divaks raised €3 million in seed funding to create yellow mealworm ingredients for meat alternative, sports nutrition, snack, confectionery, and pet nutrition products.

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Results showed that subjects in the BC30 group had significantly higher values for total amino acids and total essential amino acids, as well as higher than average levels of certain amino acids.

The market researcher’s new 2022 mobility survey series so far shows that while some consumers understand that diet and nutrition support mobility, overall the nutrition, health, and supplements industry needs to get better at educating and encouraging consumers to adopt a proactive, long-term view of mobility health.

Beneo to showcase its new faba bean protein concentrate and starch-rich flour during the 2022 IFT FIRST Annual Event and Expo taking place July 11-13 at McCormick Place in Chicago.

Roquette has launched two rice proteins as part of its Nutralys line, which will be presented for the first time during IFT First, taking place July 10-13 in Chicago.

Ladder sports nutrition products are now sold at 690 The Vitamin Shoppe brick-and-mortar stores as well as on the retailer’s website.

The ribbon cutting ceremony took place on June 29, 2022. EverGrain now has a full-scale production facility on the Anheuser-Busch campus.

NextFerm Technologies has announced the end of its commissioning period of the commercial facility in Canada and first commercial production of its vegan protein, ProteVin.

Equinom has achieved this by breeding new varieties of yellow peas using its Manna technology platform, which identifies desirable traits for food applications in the genetic structure of seeds and predicts the best crossbreeding matches to yield better varieties without the use of genetic engineering.