Nordzucker Plant Based Ingredients

Ground-breaking ceremony with Minister Staudte in Groß Munzel

14-Nov-2024 - Nordzucker's Plant Based Ingredients division celebrated the official ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of a new plant in Groß Munzel. Guests from politics and business were also present. The new plant will start producing plant-based proteins in mid-2026 and create around 60 new ...

Eating fish is practicing climate protection

Sustainable fish consumption helps the climate and protects the oceans

13-Nov-2024 - "Fish plays a key role when it comes to environmentally conscious nutrition and climate protection," says Dr. Stefan Meyer, Managing Director of the Fisch-Informationszentrum e.V. (FIZ) in Hamburg. The marine biologist refers to various studies and the latest report from the Food and Agriculture ...

Food pyramid is influenced by politics, the economy and society

15-Oct-2024 - In Germany, Austria and Switzerland there are new recommendations for a healthy diet. Behind these food pyramids there is often more business and society than nutritionists. The government recommendations for a healthy diet have been criticized ever since they have existed. The history of these ...

Unlocking Soil Carbon: Scalable carbon farming on 6 continents from space

Berlin-based Climate Tech startup Seqana raises €2.1M Seed round

03-Jun-2024 - Seqana has secured €2.1M from German seed investor HTGF and carbon removal firm Counteract to refine its soil carbon measurement algorithm. Food and beverage companies are embracing carbon farming practices utilizing soil-based carbon storage to align with current regulations, meet consumer ...

Organic pioneer Alnatura celebrates its 40th anniversary

Doing business with purpose as the basis for success and as a model for the future

30-May-2024 - Alnatura is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year: in 1984, company founder and Managing Director Götz Rehn laid the foundations for the Hessian organic company by developing the Alnatura brand. Just three years later, he opened the first Alnatura Super Natur store in Mannheim. Since then, ...

Rescue for the food rescue startup: online supermarket SIRPLUS gets off to a fresh start

17-May-2024 - It's here - salvation for the rescuers: SIRPLUS, the online supermarket for rescued food that slipped into insolvency in January of this year, has been rescued itself and is back online as of today. The restart was made possible when co-founder Raphael Fellmer, together with three investors who ...

Nestlé Study 2024 shows longing for light-heartedness

Eating in the field of tension between renunciation and enjoyment

14-May-2024 - The topic of nutrition is putting people in Germany under pressure, according to the new Nestlé study "So is(s)t Deutschland 2024". People's expectations of themselves are rising, and with them their dissatisfaction. Four solutions can help resolve the dilemma. There are clear expectations of ...

Alnatura: First brand with a complete range of organic pasture milk from a single source

Even more animal welfare for dairy cows

27-Feb-2024 - From spring 2024, Alnatura will be the first brand to offer a complete basic range of organic pasture milk dairy products from a single source. Alnatura is thus closing a gap on the shelves of food retailers and organic specialist stores. Organic pasture milk products are usually only available ...

Securing global food supply despite EU regulations

07-Dec-2023 - Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have compiled information to help political decision-makers better understand the individual options for a new EU-wide regulation of breeding technologies. The aim is to ensure the success of food producers in the EU on the global market. The scientists' ...

Tönnies Group launches first nationwide "Meat Climate Platform"

100 guests at the Future Forum for Agriculture

24-Nov-2023 - In the presence of around 1,000 agricultural partners and high-ranking guests from federal, state and local politics, the Tönnies Group launched the first "Meat Climate Platform" on Wednesday. With this platform, the food producer from Rheda-Wiedenbrück aims to strengthen regional production on ...