Tomorrow the globally most important show for the organic food business – the BioFach – will open. However this time it will be online as a “BioFach eSpecial“. We are arranging a series of webinars during the 3 days at BioFach under several topics related to how to use our Organic Functional Ingredients and Proteins in a wide range…
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Aloja Webinar on Organic Sauces and Spreads 23.7.2020
The Webinar will be held on 23.7.2020 at 15.00-16.00 Central European Time (CEST) Browse down to register. In many cases organic food differs from conventional only in that the raw material is from organic farming. The processing might be exactly the same. However there are some important restrictions in the organic regulation due to which…
In Erkki’s kitchen (pesto)
Product development is of course not my task as the export manager but we all need to eat and sometimes even prepare food. I suppose I am some kind of a foodie and I have a keen interest in the whole food value chain. By education I am an Agronomist which funnily means that I…
Organic Functional Ingredients & Organic Brown Pea Flours: Bakery applications
Previously I wrote about the functionality of organic potato starch in bakery applications in www.organicpotatostarch.com. While potato starch has a lot of functionality it doesn’t work for all purposes. For emulsification, foaming and texturising you need something else. Organic Brown Pea and Fava Bean Protein flours are simple natural wholemeal flours that have a lot…
Functional organic ingredients
Potato starch and brown pea protein concentrate offer multiple functionality in food processing The article was first published in FEBRUARY 2020 ISSUE of INNOVATIONS IN FOOD TECHNOLOGY Development and growth of the organic and plant-based food markets all around the world is accelerating due to several trends related to health, environment and ethics. However consumers…
Plant Based Proteins in Mintec Podcast
The other week I was interviewed by Marcel Goldenberg from Mintec for their “The Knowledge Podcast”. You can listen to it here:
Organic Functional Ingredients brochures available online
Please have a look at the last updated versions of our brochures as pdf: You can download the brochures here.
Organic Brown Pea and Fava Bean Proteins at BioFach 2020
As always at the end of January and early February we are preparing for BioFach. I suppose it is the same for everyone in the organic food industry. For us it means that we are preparing a totally new brochure for Organic Potato Starch adding a few pages with recipes and more application info, updating the Organic Brown…
Careful, Gentle, Minimal: What are the principles of organic processing?
Thursday 13.02.2020, 14:00 – 15.45 h, Room Kiew, NCC Ost, BIOFACH Get informed about findings from the Research projects ProOrg and SUSORGPLUS and see an example of what kind of native starches and proteins could be used in Organics. You are invited to an open discussion how the principles of organic agriculture can be translated…
Brownie recipe
Organic, Vegan, Gluten-free Brownie based on brown pea and fava bean proteins. This delicious recipe was developed in the Aloja Starkelsen test kitchen to demonstrate the functionality of the Brown Pea and Fava Bean proteins and flours. It was tested in a home kitchen setting by our export manager Erkki, who is an agronomist, organic…