To drive further growth and accelerate innovation within the plant-based foods market, AAK AB (publ.) has joined the MISTA innovation platform, based in San Francisco, California, USA.
Improving coconut cultivation and farmer livelihoods
November 23, 2020
With support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Green Invest Asia, leaders from AAK, FrieslandCampina, Harmless Harvest Thailand, Nestlé, and Unilever joined Barry Callebaut to sign the coconut industry’s first Sustainable Coconut Charter.
AAK has developed ILLEXAO, a range of fats suitable for making a ‘super compound’ that can replace up to 100 percent of the free cocoa butter in a chocolate recipe.
AAK Kamani, AAK’s majority-owned Indian joint venture, has partnered with the Good Food Institute India to collaborate on research and business promotion aimed at advancing India’s highly promising market for plant-based meat and dairy alternatives.
Much of the confectionery industry is held together by emulsifiers — literally. They are the magic that combines water and fat ingredients with each other.