Glenboro-based Prairie Fava, the main Canadian fava bean ingredient provider, is becoming a member of forces with Large Mountain Meals, an award-winning innovator of plant-based client packaged items (CPG) meals, to create a brand new line of fava-based meals merchandise, equivalent to non-allergen tofu.
Protein Industries Canada can be investing within the mission.
This partnership will lead to extra wholesome meals choices for Canadians produced proper right here at house in a next-generation manufacturing facility purposely designed to fulfill and exceed sustainability necessities.
“To fulfill the evolving wants of Canadian and world shoppers for more healthy meals choices, it’s key to assist the growth of modern firms. Via collaborative partnerships that assist the event on Canadian plant-based merchandise, we’re making a higher number of meals choices for shoppers and driving ahead sustainability in Canada’s agri-food sector,” mentioned Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Meals.
This partnership builds on two earlier Protein Industries Canada initiatives wherein every firm labored with different consortiums to construct out capability across the creation and utility of recent components and meals merchandise. The success of these improvements led to this partnership.
“At Protein Industries Canada we deliver collectively trailblazing firms to create new alternatives for innovation,” mentioned CEO of Protein Industries Canada Invoice Greuel. “Via the work of firms like Prairie Fava and Large Mountain Meals, we’re constructing capability and making a globally aggressive ecosystem that may assist Canada’s financial development and prosperity.”
At the moment, most plant-based meals are made utilizing soy, wheat and yellow or inexperienced peas, nevertheless because the market grows, there’s an ever-growing demand by shoppers for extra and completely different merchandise plant-based meals merchandise. This mission will incorporate low vicine and co-vicine (LVLCV) fava varieties into Large Mountain Meals’ line of CPG and meals service merchandise. These merchandise will meet the request of a number of main Canadian meals producers and meals service suppliers. Potential merchandise embody a non-allergen tofu and different fava-based meals merchandise.
“Prairie Fava is happy to associate with Large Mountain Meals to provide our excessive protein fava flour and splits and to assist new product growth via dietary, practical and sensory information,” mentioned President and Co-Founding father of Prairie Fava Hailey Jefferies. “The outcomes will result in the creation of recent fava CPG and meals service merchandise with larger demand being translated again to fava growers. This mission will present advantages to the complete value-chain because the actions will positively influence fava producers via to Canadian meals and ingredient firms who’re more and more eager about utilizing fava in new merchandise”.
Large Mountain Meals will produce fava-based merchandise on the first ever allergen and soy free tofu manufacturing unit on this planet. This allergen-free tofu is superior in protein content material to soy tofu, however has the identical style, color, performance, and texture as conventional tofu.
“Large Mountain Meals is honored to be in partnership with Prairie Fava and Protein Industries Canada,” mentioned President of Large Mountain Meals Jasmine Byrne. “We consider Fava to be the subsequent large factor in plant protein and are working in direction of bringing extra client consciousness to the advantages of fava together with style, diet, and sustainability. At Large Mountain Meals, our purpose is to be the chief in various tofu merchandise with the capability to provide 15 million models a yr.”
Over the previous three years, Protein Industries Canada and business companions have invested greater than $485 million into rising Canada’s plant-based meals, feed, and ingredient sector.
