Press release -
A strong presence of Andean and Amazonian Super(b) foods at Fi Europe 2017
At Fi Europe you in Hall 11.F38, visitors can meet with five innovative SME companies from Peru & Colombia, working with natural colours solutions, specialty oils, Andean grains and different functional food/fruit ingredients.
The pavilion will be included in two different innovation tours:
- 1.Everything protein: (Day 1 between 16:00 & 17:30): an overview of existing and new sources of plant proteins from the Andean region
- 2.Health & wellness : (Day 1 between 11:00 & 12:30 and Day 2 between 16:00 and 17:30): a presentation on how to benefit from the richness of natural and functional ingredients from the Amazon and the Andean region;
We asked Nico Smid, the program manager for CBI, to explain a bit about the role of CBI in bringing South American companies from Peru and Colombia to the exhibition.
Nico: In the past three years, we have been working intensively with a group of around 25 food companies from the Amazon and Andean region. CBI´s contribution consists of sustainable strengthening of the competitive capacity of SME exporters and producers from emerging markets like Colombia and Peru. At FiE, we will showcase a few of our companies and the products they are presenting, each of the companies master the art of bringing together innovative ingredients and create exciting new products and flavours.
At the pavilion, you can meet companies from Colombia and Peru offering innovative gourmet products. In addition, there will be an information desk where you can get information about sourcing opportunities in South America, background information about ingredients and producers and learn more about the social impact the CBI programs have in the region with respect to job creation, poverty reduction and broader social and environmental impact.
The Andean and Amazonian super(b) food ingredients pavilion is developed in partnership with the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism, PromPeru, ADEX, Lima Chamber of Commerce and ProColombia.
Topics
- Food industry
Categories
- food ingredients
- innovation tour
- fi europe
- alsec
- agroindustrias osho
CBI, the Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries, contributes to sustainable and inclusive economic development in developing countries through the expansion of exports from these countries to Europe. CBI was established in 1971. For more information: www.cbi.eu
Peruvian and Colombian participation in FiE
Among the Peruvian offer, innovative food companies will find superfoods, worldwide recognised such as quinoa, cocoa, lucuma powder, maca, yacon. However, there are other products less known but with high opportunities like camu camu, sacha inchi, purple corn, cherimoya, granadilla, among others. All these products that Peru has to offer it is thanks to the country’s biodiversity that boasts 28 of the world´s 32 climates and 84 of the planet´s 117 life zones.
The companies that will represent Peru, are:
-Agroindustrias Osho (http://www.agroindustriasosho.com/) – Peru: a producer of specialty oils, super foods, cacao, organic sugar and extruded snack lines
-AicaColor (http://www.aicacolor.com/index_e.html) – Peru: a producer of natural colour extracts and solutions, primarily from annatto seed.
- Andino Industrias (http://www.andinoindustrias.com) – Peru: a producer of natural fruit, grain and root based ingredients from the Cusco region, strong in innovation and new product development.
From Colombia visitors will get the change to meet one of the most innovative and fastest growing natural colour solutions from Colombia, Colorganics. Also they can learn all about microencapsulated nutritional solutions, produced by Alsec S.A.S.
-Alsec S.A. Ingredientes (www.alsec.com.co) – Colombia: a producer of nutritional mixes extracts and spray dried lipids
- Colorganics – Colombia (www.colorganics.co): design an integral solutions in the area of natural coloration on an industrial scale
