Fats

Don DiMasi joins Yali Bio, focuses on scaling up designer fat ingredients

07-Nov-2023 By Deniz Ataman

As designer fat supplier Yali Bio's first senior vice president of engineering and biomanufacturing, Don DiMasi will focus on expanding the company's biomanufacturing capacity and developing new processes to economically scale up fermentation...

Nourish Ingredients teams with Boston Bioprocess to scale animal-free specialty fats

20-Sep-2023 By Elizabeth Crawford

Nourish Ingredients, a frontrunner in the burgeoning ‘animal-free’ specialty fat segment, is teaming with Boston Bioprocess to efficiently scale the most “potent fat molecules” responsible for replicating the “animalic” aroma, flavor and taste of meat...

Paragon Pure unveils OléPBM vegan fat targeting plant-based meat applications

09-Aug-2022 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Fresh off closing a $3.9m seed funding round* led by Unovis Asset Management, Paragon Pure is debuting its OléPBM alternative fat technology made from rice bran oil, which it claims outperforms palm and coconut oils in plant-based meat products.

IFT FIRST: Mintel highlights need for fat innovation in plant-based foods

15-Jul-2022 By Mary Ellen Shoup

While still a growing $7.4bn industry, plant-based foods have some significant hurdles to overcome around formulation especially in the area of fat content, according to Mintel.

Tyson Fresh Meats launches joint venture into fats and oils market

14-Feb-2020 By Aidan Fortune

Tyson Fresh Meats has announced a joint venture with Jacob Stern & Sons to serve the worldwide fats and oils market.

Amarlane Foods debuts plant-based Betterine spread made from coconut oil: 'We’re not claiming that it’s healthy, but it is natural’

14-Jan-2020 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Amarlane Foods spent the past three years in heavy R&D to bring its plant-based spread – made of coconut oil, water, soy lecithin, and arrowroot powder – to market.

CoreFX CEO talks convenient, healthy fats and ambitions to become a 'holistic nutrition and wellness company'

07-Nov-2019 By Mary Ellen Shoup

CoreFX Ingredients -- a Chicago-based supplier of dry, stable functional powdered fats and oils -- is experiencing increased demand across it portfolio, especially for its plant-based offerings such as avocado, evening primrose, and Sacha Inchi oils....

Sated keto meal shakes will be a competitor to Soylent, says founder

28-Aug-2018 By Mary Ellen Shoup

After blowing through its $10,800 Kickstarter goal within a few hours, Sated – the brand behind newly-introduced ready-to-drink (RTD) ‘keto meal shakes’ – believes betting big on the keto diet trend will propel the brand to a wider audience including...

Saturated fat solutions for bakers speared at new ADM baking facility

17-Jul-2008 By Lindsey Partos

Fats and oils supplier ADM Pura steps up solutions for bakers,
opening a new R&D test bakery at its production site in
Purfleet, Essex to look into reformulation and novel fats.

Karlshamns buys up British flaked fats

06-Sep-2004

Swedish oils and fats firm Karlshamns, which saw its profits slip
at the end of 2003, has acquired UK flaked fats company Kelanco,
and with it a drive into value-added speciality fats for the
booming UK convenience food market.