Verdad® Opti Powder N350

Traditional dry curing has been used to preserve fish for millenia, but such methods don’t provide adequate pathogen protection within modern food processing and distribution networks.

Corbion’s Verdad® Opti Powder N350 is an alternative to traditional curing that combines the flavor and functionality of salt with the proven antimicrobial properties of vinegar, delivering superior Listeria control and extended shelf life. The product is applied to the flesh surface as with traditional salting, but a patent-pending process blends vinegar and salt granules of uniform size to ensure consistent dosing throughout the fish, maximizing antimicrobial efficacy in controlling Listeria outgrowth.

Food Tech Innovation Award - Corbion - Winner

Vegetable Based Never Fry Coatings

Our Vegetable Based Never Fry Coating System goes the extra mile to differentiate and deliver results, for our customers and their consumers. We create that added value – health, visual appeal, great taste and texture all married together to provide superior quality with a commercial approach. Our product reduces fat from standard products, all packaged with a best in class, clean label practice that is transparent, highly nutritious and user friendly. It can be consumed in the home and for larger production in restaurant/QSR settings, and it’s never fry / oven setting eliminates oil and fryer use, creating greater health and production, cost efficiencies.

F&B Categories Innovation Award - Griffith Foods - Winne

Creating value from shrimp byproducts

VNF is the solution to the shrimp heads and shells the world throws away without care. Before VNF stepped in, shrimp byproducts were a burden to the environment, shrimp processors, restaurants – anyone who handled shrimp. But with innovative R&D, VNF developed a biotechnological zero-waste production process to extract nutrients from shrimp byproducts and create unique, natural shrimp food ingredients. Our technology will enable aquatic by-products to be utilized as valuable raw materials and as an alternative source of protein for the growing population. The world should see ‘by-products’ as ‘co-products’ because value and nutrition doesn’t stop only at the meat

Future of Nutrition Award - Viet Nam Food Joint Stock Company - Winner

Sweety® Cultures for sugar reduction in fermented dairy

Sweety® cultures can make fermented milk products healthier by reducing added sugar, whilst keeping the sweet taste of the product. The Sweety® cultures work by converting the naturally occurring sugars in milk, using more of the lactose and leaving glucose. Glucose provides sweetness, meaning that less sugar needs to be added for the same sweetness intensity of the final fermented milk product. This enables the development of natural and clean label products without the use of artificial sweeteners. Reduce added sugar and keep the sweetness using only culture!

Reformulation Innovation - Chr. Hansen A/S - Winner

The first emulsifier ingredients company to achieve CO2 neutral production!

On 1st July 2019 Palsgaard - known as the inventor of the modern plant-based emulsifier, achieved its goal of total carbon-neutral production two years ahead of its goal. An achievement believed to be a first for the whole food ingredients industry. Despite operating six energy-intensive production facilities around the world, Palsgaard has reduced its net carbon emissions from 12,029 tonnes in 2010 to zero in 2018. Over that period, it has achieved CO2 reductions totalling 56,175 tonnes – equivalent to the amount produced by 4885 European (EU) households in a year.

Sustainability Champion Award - Palsgaard - Winner

Hansen sweet potato™

Strawberry red is a popular shade in many food products – from cakes to confectionary to milkshakes. But until now it's been extremely difficult to achieve a bright, fire-engine red using coloring foods without risking an off-taste. Chr. Hansen has commercialized a new vegetable variety – the Hansen sweet potato™ Ipomoea batatas – using traditional breeding methods to create the long-sought after vibrant, natural red alternative to carmine that meet consumers’ need for natural recognizable ingredients.

The new plant-based Hansen sweet potato™  concentrates offer superior process and shelf life stability in a multitude of food products.

Clean Label and Natural Innovation Award - Chr. Hansen A/S - Winner

The development and Launch of ROVITARIS™ FBX 360 - A Textured Faba Bean Protein

Due to the increased demand for alternative meat proteins globally, manufacturers are looking for plant-based proteins that will offer sustainable functional and nutritional value in the meat alternative category. ICL Food Specialties has developed ROVITARIS™ FBX 360 which is the first commercially available textured faba bean protein that offers meat-like texture and mouthfeel with great flavor.

ROVITARIS™ FBX 360 can be used in vegan, vegetarian and hybrid meat applications. Some examples of applications where ROVITARIS™ FBX 360 has been used include nuggets, burgers, crumbles, emulsified systems e.g. sausages, hybrid meat systems and in canned soups and sauces.

Protein Innovation - ICL Food Specialties - Winner

CHOOZIT® BC - Enabling pizza makers to control browning and increase baking flexibility in oven conveyors

 CHOOZIT® BC Cultures from DuPont: optimum browning control of pizza cheese Pizza cheese manufacturers face numerous challenges to meet the growing demand for pizza cheese -- ranging from high productivity while delivering a constant quality cheese with low cost to make controlling specific properties like color control during baking.

CHOOZIT® BC Cultures are based on a new proprietary formulation designed to reduce pizza cheese browning. The browning reduction is obtained without negative impact on other cheese properties such as texture, proteolysis, flavor. The easy-to-use solution delivers increased shelf life, consistent pizza cheese quality and a clean label alternative to existing solutions."

 F&B Categories Award - DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences - Highly Commended

Nanocapsules of Food Proteins

We help manufacturers to produce better food and supplements, solving problems of absorption, degradation, solubility and unpleasant tastes of some healthy substances and microorganisms with our innovative nanocapsules, made solely of proteins, as natural carriers of any bioactive ingredient or probiotic into bloodstream. Our protein nanocapsules (GRAS Status – Clean Label) protect the bioactive substances from oxidation, degradation and gastrointestinal conditions increasing shelf life and bioavailability; the final product is an easy handling dry powder with stable suspension in any liquid or matrix, that can be compressed, filled in a sachet or a pill or incorporated in any food, drink or supplement (resisting cooking processes).

Future of Nutrition Award - Nucaps Nanotechnology, S.L. - Highly Commended