The plant-based dairy alternative category is an enormous market opportunity, with emerging brands racing to innovate in items such as beverages, frozen desserts and vegan slices, among others. To help companies and startups differentiate from their competition, Kerry has developed and released a leading-edge Plant-based Dairy Alternative Toolkit.

Butter Buds Inc., a global leader in dairy and non-dairy concentrates, offers several solutions to help manufacturers overcome common formulation challenges associated with using pea protein in meat/meat alternative applications. Butter Buds ingredients help improve both the flavor and texture of pea-protein products for great-tasting, clean label foods. 

Merit Functional Foods, a solutions-based protein ingredients company, is unveiling its newest performance nutrition product concept innovations at SupplySide West 2021.

AAK, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of value-adding specialty vegetable fats and oils, invites SupplySide West (SSW) attendees to discover the latest solutions for innovative plant-based foods, infant nutrition and healthy aging products. 

Only Plant Based! introduced a range of plant-based mayos and sauces that are shelf stable, heatable and egg-free. The products can be consumed by vegans, flexitarians and omnivores alike.

Health is one of the 12 megatrends recently defined by the Future Institute in Frankfurt. It informs all facets of daily life and dominates entire lifestyles.

The plant-based community is growing steadily. More and more consumers want more choices in plant-based foods. According to a Europe-wide consumer survey by ProVeg International, there is still great potential for plant-based foods in many categories.

Prepared Foods showcases plant-based meat, dairy alternatives.

Launching in January 2022, new Silk nextmilk™ and So Delicious Wondermilk™ are designed to help close the gap between traditional dairy drinkers and plant-based beverage consumers.

Plant-based food retail sales grew 27% to reach a value of $7 billion in 2020, according to SPINS data released by the Good Food Institute and the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA).