Nestlé Expands Healthy Food Partnerships
The goal is to produce on-trend, plant-based products with clean labels and fresh ingredients now and in the future.
Oct 08, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. – Looking toward the future of food, Nestlé USA has announced three new partnerships as part of the TERRA Food & Agriculture Accelerator founded by RocketSpace and Rabobank.
The program brings together innovators from both large corporations and emerging growth companies, including three that create on-trend foods focused on plant-based nutrition, simple labels and fresh ingredients: Jackson’s Honest, Miyoko’s and Here Foods.
Jackson’s Honest of Crested Butte, Colorado, has a portfolio of 20-plus non-GMO Project Verified snacks, including potato chips, tortilla chips and grain-free puffs, all of them cooked “low and slow” in organic coconut oil.
Miyoko’s of Fairfax, California, is combining proprietary technology with age-old creamery methods to craft cheese and butter substitutes from plants. Through an innovative approach to traditional cheese-making methods, such as fermentation, culturing and aging of plant-based ingredients, the company makes food with complex flavors and textures reliably and at scale.
Here Foods uses produce sourced from independent farms to make cold-pressed juices, salad dressings, and spreads and dips. The company focuses on sustaining local farmers, workers, grocers and customers with its Farm to Label™ products.
“These companies represent the future of food,” said Ashlee Adams, head of Nestlé’s open innovation initiative. “Our open innovation efforts are focused on meeting companies where they are in their stage of growth and designing win-win partnerships that accelerate that growth. We look forward to working with these companies to share learnings, develop new capabilities and create something better together as we bring people more options in categories that are in high demand—healthy snacking and plant-based foods.”
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