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Let鈥檚 say a gentleman visits a local restaurant. He hops into the closest booth, grabs the menu and then a waiter approaches.

Waiter: Hi, may I take your order?

Patron: Yes, thanks. I鈥檒l have the Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT) with a High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS).

Waiter: Excuse me?

Patron: Oh, I鈥檓 sorry. I meant a bowl of your specialty breakfast cereal and a large fruit punch.

Sounds crazy, but it鈥檚 not that far-fetched.

Every day we consume foods and beverages engineered with ingredients not all of us understand. Fortunately, there鈥檚 hope with 鈥渃lean label鈥� products. They use fewer ingredients, and those ingredients can be easily identified by the average consumer.

To this end, we鈥檝e recently partnered with Wageningen University & Research, a public university focused on researching scientific, social and commercial problems in the field of life sciences and natural resources. We鈥檙e working with Wageningen and other companies to find innovations that will improve current products and create new, cleaner ones.

Based in the Netherlands, the university has linked industrial partners across the full supply chain, developing foods that shift from highly processed ingredients to more natural recipes. We鈥檙e the consortium鈥檚 sole process technology and equipment supplier, and we鈥檙e working with several of the world鈥檚 biggest companies to find ways to produce these nutritionally simplistic products.

Sarah Westergreen helps manage our research and development process. She says, "This project links industrial partners across the full supply chain to increase consumer appeal and acceptance of plant-based foods, by creating clean label products using fewer and more familiar ingredients.鈥�

But this isn鈥檛 a one-way street. As much as we鈥檙e eager to share, we鈥檙e eager to learn. Our partners are successful, industry-adjacent leaders, and we鈥檙e excited to work with these food production giants, helping optimize our plant-based applications while building key relationships.

鈥溍夥殉怨� will collaborate with industrial suppliers of ingredients, cultures and raw materials, product manufacturers and research partners across the full supply chain,鈥� says Steffen Hansen, one of our product development engineers in Denmark. 鈥淚n turn, we鈥檒l ensure applicability in practice.鈥欌��

We鈥檙e on track to conclude this, 鈥淐lean label solutions for structuring plant-based foods鈥� research project by 2025. For more on this project, see聽.