Upcycled foods: the most delicious upcoming trend to fight global warming
Upcycled foods: the most delicious upcoming trend to fight global warming
Enormous amounts of food get wasted
Today an estimated 30% of all the food produced in the world, ends up as waste before it even gets to our kitchen tables. This food-wasting also results in the loss of water, and all the energy needed to grow, harvest, transport, and package it. An absolute shame, because fighting food waste is the single most effective solution to global warming.
What are Upcycled Foods?
Upcycled foods use ingredients that otherwise would not have gone to human consumption, are procured and produced using verifiable supply chains, and have a positive impact on the environment.
Luckily, nowadays consumers are enthusiastic about upcycled foods. They become more aware of the impacts of food losses and waste and actively want to make a change by making different choices in their purchasing decisions.
Consumers' purchase intention for upcycled food
Consumers are the key players in this new upcycling trend: they have a powerful voice in new industry developments. This group of consumers has grown over the years, and is still growing. As such, there is a significant shift taking place in the market.
Recent studies show that about 60% of consumers want to buy more upcycled food.
Companies want to satisfy these new motivations of consumers, and are thus adapting their practices to meet the ethical concerns. Upcycled Food Association (UFA) is more than happy to provide support to consumer brands.
Discover the Upcycled Certified™ mark
It’s essential for consumer companies to invest in sustainability for long-term success!
Participate in the upcycled food movement by making it easy for your consumers. Providing an Upcycled Certified™ mark on the packaging of your products is a perfect way to do so. Through this mark, your consumers know they’re buying a product with upcycled food ingredients and are making a positive contribution to the planet. The mark helps them make an informed choice in their purchases.
The upcycled wonderfruit: our beloved cacaofruit
As the global cacaofruit expert, Cabosse Naturals has built a unique supply chain to upcycle the entire cacaofruit and offer you stable, high-quality ingredients at a large scale.
Annually about 14 million tons of cacaofruits are harvested around the world. Whereas previously 70% of the cacaofruit was thrown away (as much as 10 million tons), now not only its seeds (beans) but also the dried peel, the fresh and juicy pulp are used and processed into delicious and nutritious ingredients.
By using Cabosse Naturals' Upcycled Certified cacaofruit ingredients, you will benefit from our certification to facilitate your own.
