Ingredients

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Plant Based Meat Alternatives – Fiber Up Your World

As the world’s largest manufacturer of plant fiber concentrates, JRS has been known for its innovative, health-oriented approach to fiber with the highest consumer acceptance all over the world for over 30 years now. The extensive product range of the company’s VITACEL® cereal, vegetable and fruit fibers with their respective specific, sensory and haptic properties can be perfectly integrated into modern and delicious food recipes for fiber enrichment, applicable for different product ranges such as plant based meat alternatives. The many gold medals received from DLG testers is a testiment to the products’ high quality and sensory properties. As global surveys show, animal welfare is the top motivator for people to switch to less meat or to a vegetarian and vegan lifestyle – this is directly followed by environmental …

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Ioncell fibre

Ioncell fibre, © Aalto University, Mikko Raskinen

Fashion, Design & Beauty

Spot On: Sustainable Textile Innovations From Finland

Several Finnish companies have made it their mission to make a lasting change to the textile industry with their innovative materials and processes. This has also had benefits for the vegan textile industry. Here are two of these companies. Textile fibres from the Finnish forests Ioncell was developed as a research project by Aalto University in Finland. Ioncell’s research team has developed a process that can be used to manufacture textile fibres from cellulose, e.g. wood, and to recycle textiles in a way that conserves resources. Pirjo Kääriäinen, Professor of Design and Fibre Innovations at Aalto University, explains that the conventional production of cellulose fibres is often only possible using strong chemicals. This is not the case with Ioncell; it does not use any harmful …

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