Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery
While most consumers are still seeking sweets, they are more mindful about the amount of sugar and carbs in their diet. In this article from Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery, Paul Whitman, category manager for fruits and vegetables and Alex Puglia, business development manager, highlight the benefits of using organic coconut sugar and organic agave inulin powder product formulations.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Dec. 06, 2021) – Global Organics is proud to recognize its longtime partner, Natíve, for becoming the first Regenerative Organic Certified™ (ROC) sugar producer. Over the last 35 years, Natíve’s Green Cane Project has reinvented cane sugar growing and processing. By focusing on soil health and biodiversity, integrating sustainability at all levels of their operation, and ensuring social fairness to farm workers, Natíve’s Green Cane Project has been long recognized as the model for sustainability.
Food and Beverage Insider
As we head into the New Year, consumers are seeking better-for-you ingredients, cutting back on sugar and artificial sugar substitutes. In this Food & Beverage Insider article, Paul Whitman, fruit and vegetable specialties category manager, highlights the benefits of using all-natural, organic sweeteners to meet clean label standards without sacrificing taste or texture.
Organic wild blueberries are a great choice for health-conscious consumers, carrying twice the antioxidants of cultivated blueberries due to the high concentration of the flavonoid anthocyanin. In this article, Paul Whitman, fruit and vegetable specialties category manager, highlights how our organic blueberry purée can work in a variety of baked goods, delivering full flavor and a distinctive color.
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As more food and beverage manufacturers shift to clean label ingredients, the clean label distinction is starting to mean more than a short, recognizable ingredient list with a greater emphasis on social responsibility. In this article on sweeteners, our Business Development Manager, Alex Puglia, discusses how our partnership with Nekutli Alimentos Organicos Group, a union of four farming cooperatives, enables us to invest profits from agave sales directly back into local communities.
Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery
Throughout the pandemic, consumers gravitated to chocolate to help provide both indulgence and comfort. As we begin to emerge, consumers have a heightened interest in their health and wellbeing with an increased demand for organic, fair trade and non-GMO products. In this article, Cathy Fichtner, category manager, organic cocoa and chocolate, highlights Agostoni Organic Dark Chocolate Chips, describing them as having "a rich mouthfeel from the organic cocoa butter" and a "deep/fruity flavor from the dark chocolate and coconut sugar that sweetens the chips."
Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery
Lest anyone think that the pandemic pressed “pause” on campaigns for corporate sustainability, think again. Native Organic Sugar, São Paulo, Brazil, demonstrates that large-scale sugarcane production can improve soil, water, and biodiversity while also increasing yields to supply the snack and baking industries. Andrew Martino, category manager for sugar states, "organic sugar can be grown at scale."
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“Organic coconut nectar is a millennium-old ‘new’ ingredient,” said Paul Whitman, fruit and vegetable specialties category manager, Global Organics Ltd. “Our supplier in Java, Indonesia, uses a traditional harvesting method: wrapping the coconut blossoms in palm leaves to prevent full blossoming. Twice daily, climbers carefully scale to the very top of the tree, expertly cut razor thin slices from the coconut flowers, to start the sap flowing and collect 2 to 5 liters per day. The sap is evaporated and concentrated to a syrup. If the sap was fully evaporated, you would have produced coconut sugar.
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Global Organics Ltd., a supplier of sustainable, certified organic and fair trade ingredients, has solved the twin problems of fluctuating prices and product adulteration with its newly launched Organic Wild Salmiana Agave Syrup.
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Isabelle Favato, former quality manager at Global Organics, has been named director of quality. In her new role, she will lead a growing team of professionals who ensure Global Organic’s products meet or exceed organic, quality and fair trade certifications. She also will manage growing reporting and testing requirements.