Driving sustainable innovation and meeting customer needs
Sustainability is becoming more important in AAKs way
of driving innovation and meeting our customers needs.
New food product solutions are created that not only
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viable and support stakeholder requirements throughout
the value chain.
Sustainable and healthy businesses are
made with AkoPlanet™
AkoPlanet™ is AAK’s umbrella brand for plant-based
foods and a platform for co-developing oils and fats
solutions for plant-based meat and dairy.
“Conscious consumers are choosing to reduce or
replace meat and dairy in their diet. This is driven
primarily by sustainability and health concerns, however
they are still also looking for a taste experience,” says
Catherine Hansen, AAK’s Global Product and Market
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developed AkoPlanet™, so consumers can enjoy more
plant-based foods that have a positive impact on
the planet without having to compromise on taste or
texture.”
Based on a deep understanding of oils and fats
chemistry, our AkoPlanet™ team works with food manufacturers
to develop great-tasting plant-based products
with enhanced taste and texture, from more succulent
burgers and creamier frozen desserts to sliceable or
shreddable cheese with superior melting properties.
AkoPlanet™ solutions are made with responsibly
sourced, traceable raw materials to ensure consumers’
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solution with a Life Cycle Assessment for a customer
to help monitor and understand their impact on global
rapeseed supply chains.
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Another example of how AAK is driving sustainable
innovation is through our liquid shea solution, which has
been proven in laboratory trials to save up to 50 percent
energy and 30 percent time in production compared to
solid shea butter.
The study was conducted under strictly controlled
conditions and compared hot processing of a body
lotion made with 6 percent solid shea butter with low
temperature processing of the same formulation using
6 percent liquid shea.
AAK’s liquid shea offers all the functionality and skin
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raw material requires less packaging than solid shea
butter and is produced using kernels from a segregated
supply chain traceable to the AAK Kolo Nafaso program,
making it an even more sustainable solution.
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