Local products are emerging as a solution to the rising market prices.
As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned in the middle of the year, we are facing a rise in food prices. A global phenomenon that is not only being felt at the end of this year, but is expected to continue to increase during part of 2022, affecting the CPI at a global level.
Factors such as changes in consumption, the inflation suffered by certain foods such as animal proteins, the increase in shipping and transportation costs, the grain accumulation strategies of certain territories or the meteorological phenomena that have hit exporting countries such as Argentina, Brazil or the United States are forcing many manufacturers to rethink their strategies and products in a drastic way.
Against this backdrop, local products and dehydrated ingredients are providing great solutions for many food companies. On the one hand, proximity products make it possible to guarantee a stable and quality supply without increasing logistics costs. They are also an excellent way of boosting the local economy.
On the other hand, dehydrated ingredients, since they do not contain moisture, not only increase the shelf life of the ingredient for at least one year, but also allow easy preservation at room temperature, thus reducing transportation and storage costs. It should be noted that the use of this type of ingredients provides homogeneity of flavor batch after batch, always maintaining the quality of the product and improving its texture, appearance and authenticity.
Premium and proximity dehydrated ingredients, the quality leap proposed by New Foods
Beyond the most classic ingredients and flavors, the Italian company New Foods offers producers and manufacturers unique solutions that are perfect to innovate in the creation of new products and, at the same time, give an extra flavor and health to surprise consumers.
In addition, thanks to its location and organization, New Foods has references that maintain the traceability of ingredients. This traceability, which in many cases extends from harvest to production, makes it possible to create foodstuffs with a clear provenance and a high level of confidence for both manufacturers and consumers.
A wide range of solutions for the food industry
Among New Foods' extensive range of dehydrated ingredients we can highlight:
- From our garden: Italian spinach powder, olive rings, chopped artichokes, capers... Ingredients with a high traceability, from the harvest to your plate, passing through the dehydration process in Verona.
- Italian delights: Products related to the tasty Italian cuisine to elaborate differential recipes among which sun-dried tomato, aromatic herbs with an incredible flavor such as low-salt basil, cod, pesto powder or dehydrated cheeses such as grana padano.
- Specialists in mushrooms: Since 1974 New Foods offers mushrooms of different varieties subjected to a thorough cleaning treatment and verified by an expert in mycology. Among them we can find Boletus Edulis (the famous porcini), Cantharellus cibarius, Champignon, Shitake...
- Flavor modulators: Innovative solutions to enhance and round off the natural flavor of foods. For example, the umami reference enhances flavor with a totally clean label and no added yeast extracts.
High-quality dehydrated ingredients through innovation
New Foods uses modern technologies to dehydrate its products such asModified Vacuum Drying. During this process, foods are subjected to dehydration in which, thanks to the vacuum formed in the chamber, high temperatures are not required. This offers advantages such as:
- Maintain the natural characteristics of the final product
- Do not destroy the product matrix and maintain the product structure
- Lowers the water activity of the feed, thus increasing its shelf life
- Requires less energy and reduces economic and environmental costs
- It is a less harmful drying process
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