Plant-based foods are at the cutting edge of product innovation and this year’s show demonstrated the incredible ways companies are pioneering the use of new novel ingredients that raise the bar on product sustainability and nutrition.
The conversation around sustainable ingredients made headway on the showfloor with brands using a diverse array of new novel ingredients. Member WhatIf Foods makes their plant-based milks and noodles from Bambara Groundnut (aka BamNuts), a nut grown in Tamale, Northern Ghana that thrives in arid conditions and actively helps to regenerate soil.