Symrise Diana Food announces that it has organized and instituted a new training session. It specifically targets farmers in the French Alps who supply fruits for baby food. The program, which focuses on best practices for soil biodiversity, aims at improving the quality and yield of the key crops used in baby foods.
Many farmers follow traditional agronomy practices passed down from previous generations. Very often, they would benefit from more awareness of how a deeper understanding of the nature of their soil can improve output. With this training, Symrise Diana Food agronomists can show farmers the role soil plays in producing fruits and vegetables that capture all the inherent goodness of their terroir. Combining this new technical knowledge with the farmers’ traditional methods yields a very high quality.
According to Aurélie Pellé, Global Fruit Product Line Director at Symrise Diana Food, “Consumers are looking for products for their babies that come as close as possible to homemade. They want baby foods with natural, clean, and simple ingredients processed in the most gentle way. For this reason, agronomy plays such an important role in the category. Growing the best, most nutritious fruits and vegetables allows minimal processing and an end product that stays true to itself.”
Symrise Diana Food offers a large range of baby food ingredients. They support the specific nutritional needs of children in the age groups of 6 months to 3 years, beginning with the introduction of solid foods into the diet. Fruit product streams include banana, apple, and strawberry. Vegetable streams include carrot, tomato, and spinach. Symrise Diana Food production sites carry the FSC 22000 certificate. This enables the company to provide ingredients that meet the health and safety standards this category demands: minimum levels of contaminants, low microbiology levels, and low levels of chemical contaminants and foreign bodies.
Consumers increasingly look for organic ingredients in the baby food category. Therefore, we find more organic products in the market than in any other category. The Symrise Diana Food Baby Food portfolio meets this demand, with organic certification compliant with the European, American and Chinese markets.
Excellence in agronomy lies at the foundation of Symrise Diana Food’s value proposition. The company can draw on its historical know-how, expertise and global network of agronomic experts. This enables Symrise Diana Food to select the best varieties and the best growing conditions in order to maximize the potential of the species. With proximity to farmers and producers, Symrise Diana Food agronomists fully involve in the cultivation cycle, guaranteeing traceability, transparency, and sustainability of agricultural practices. This expertise and experience from farm to fork makes Symrise Diana Food a trusted partner for developing wining solutions for Baby Food manufacturers.
About Symrise Diana Food
Symrise Diana Food is part of Symrise Nutrition, which encompasses ADF/IDF, Symrise Diana Pet Food and Symrise Diana Aqua as well as Probi. Within the Symrise Group – a global supplier of fragrances, flavors, food, nutrition and cosmetic ingredients – Symrise Nutrition leverages the Group capabilities to provide advanced natural health & well-being nutrition solutions for the human food, pet food and aquafeed industries.
Symrise Diana Food offers a large range of natural ingredients to the food, beverage, baby food and dietary supplement industries. It provides its customers, across 90 countries, with innovative, natural and sustainable solutions, making life tastes and feels better for millions of consumers around the world.
With a 30-year experience in sourcing excellence, Symrise Diana Food’s team of in-house agronomists carefully selects raw materials and applies best-in-class sustainable sourcing practices, to capture the highest natural properties of conventional and organic fruit, vegetables, meat and seafood.
Aiming to access the freshest raw materials, while minimizing environmental footprint, Symrise Diana Food relies on 11 industrial sites in Europe, North America and Latin America located closest to the source. Gentle industrial processes and technological know-how enable Symrise Diana Food to deliver clean label solutions & standardized nutritional actives. Food safety, highest quality standards, and traceability can thus be guaranteed, ensuring trust all along the value chain and helping customers to win with superior taste performance, health benefits, sensorial experience and food preservation results.
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About Symrise
Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances, flavors, food, nutrition and cosmetic ingredients. Its clients include manufacturers of perfumes, cosmetics, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals and producers of nutritional supplements and pet food.
Its sales of € 3.5 billion in the 2020 fiscal year make Symrise a leading global provider. Headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, the Group is represented by more than 100 locations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the United States and Latin America.
Symrise works with its clients to develop new ideas and market-ready concepts for products that form an integral part of everyday life. Economic success and corporate responsibility are inextricably linked as part of this process. Symrise – always inspiring more …
