Join us at Food Matters Live, Ascot, October 2024
There are three overarching challenges facing food developers and marketing teams in 2024 – sustainability, health and of course, cost of living. Our Tastes of Better event at Food Matters Live will show how the next generation of oil fractions and fat blends can provide natural solutions to these challenges.
Join us at Tastes of Better, Ascot: 8-9 October, to explore the big FAT question and how it relates to sustainability, health and cost of living.
Challenges relating to sustainability, health and cost of living are not new. However they have now taken different forms, are happening at the same time, and with a much greater sense of urgency.
When it comes to sustainability, we are faced with new legislation relating to forest risk commodities, Scope 3 measurement and reporting, and carbon footprint reduction.
Regarding Health, we want to reduce the ‘bad’ such as saturated fat, sugar and calories, and increase the ‘good’ for example fibre, protein or essential nutrients such as Omega 3 fatty acids and vitamins. But this all needs to be done without compromising in the slightest: taste, texture or shelf life, and with as clean a label as possible so that food manufacturers are ‘HFSS ready’.
When tackling rising costs, there’s only so much that can be achieved through increasing efficiencies and shrinking the size of the end product. Ultimately, we must look at which ingredients are causing the most headaches and contributing most to the overall cost of the product, yet can readily be replaced with the latest fats and oils technology.
For example, some dairy ingredients such as butter or cream, or chocolate ingredients such as cocoa butter, increase both cost and carbon footprint when new, plant-based alternative ingredients are now readily available.
Our Tastes of Better event will showcase the latest technology and functionality possible from the correct blends of different oils and oil fractions. These blends are designed to work in synergy with the other ingredients in everyday foods, to achieve perfect taste and texture in everything from a cake to a cheese to chocolate or even a delicious smoothie.
We look forward to seeing you there!