Spirit of Gallo has released Heat Check, a new hot pepper-flavoured vodka created in partnership with New Amsterdam Vodka and YouTube show Hot Ones. The vodka has an ABV of 35% and combines hot pepper flavours from deep, earthy serrano and fresno to the fruity, bright notes of habanero, adding depth and complexity to beverages. Brandon Lieb, VP of spirits at Gallo, said: "At Spirit of Gallo, we believe in crafting innovative spirits that not only taste great but also spark cultural conversations. Heat Check invites drinkers to embrace the thrill of bold flavour.” Hot Ones host Sean Evans added: "Hot Ones is bringing the heat to fans yet again with the launch of Heat Check, a not-too-spicy, not-too-mild, but just right pepper-infused spirit in partnership with New Amsterdam Vodka. I'm thrilled to invite spice lovers to see if they can handle the heat, from celebrating with a spicy shot to poolside sipping." The limited-edition offering is available now at retailers across the US for an RRP of $10.99 per 750ml bottle. #US #SpiritofGallo #NewAmsterdamVodka #vodka #alcohol

Sourced from citrus peels and apple pomace, pectin has appeal for a wide range of applications. This label-friendly texturizer with gelling and thickening functionalities features everything from ice cream to vegan gummies. Pectin has widespread consumer recognition as an ingredient by evoking memories of homemade jams and jellies “like grandma made”. In fact, 53% of European consumers are familiar with pectin as a key ingredient in food. It also plays into key consumer trends such as sugar reduction, label-friendliness and sustainability. Product launch numbers illustrate this success. 7% growth was reported in new product launches containing pectin in Europe (2023 vs. 2022). Jams remain the biggest application area for pectin, with the ingredient featuring in some 80% of new spread launches. At the same time, pectin is staking its claim in dairy too. The ingredient features in 55% of all new spoonable dairy and plant-based yogurt launches, where it delivers texture and stability. Here, the rise in plant-based alternatives presents significant growth potential for pectin too. Pectin is one of the core ingredients in the Cargill label-friendly portfolio. Whether customers are looking for specific gelation, setting speed, viscosity, mouthfeel or stabilisation, there is a UniPectine solution that has undergone extensive testing and will help to deliver an outstanding consumer product. The latest addition to the UniPectine solutions portfolio is label-friendly LMCPlus, a range of conventional low methoxyl pectins (LMC) that delivers great gel strength performance. UniPectine LMCPlus solutions perform in low-sugar/high-fruit applications, including jams, jellies and bake-stable fruit fillings. A new variant has also been developed which is suitable for dairy and dairy alternative applications. UniPectine LMCPlus solutions are suited for both conventional and organic market applications in Europe! UniPectine LMCPlus for fruit applications: LMCPlus for fruit allows fruit processors to market high-quality, cost-efficient and on-trend jams/jelly/spreads and fruit-filled bakery products. They make novel textures possible due to their superior gel strength performance while improving cost-effectiveness. This new family of solutions is available in a range of gel strengths and setting temperatures/rates UniPectine LMCPlus for dairy applications: LMCPlus for dairy is the key ingredient to achieving smooth, appealing stirred yogurt with no compromise on texture while enjoying label-friendly, organic-suitable ingredients and cost-efficiencies. It provides a smooth texture and a nice appearance to stirred yogurt and dairy alternatives. It can replace LMA (amidated low methoxyl) pectin with no material compromise on functionality and can offer cost efficiency, too. These two new solutions are just part of the broad UniPectine range, which is all about taking our customers’ product formulations further. Through the combination of our technical and application expertise and our unparalleled portfolio, Cargill can help our customers navigate the technical demands of a whole range of specifications in terms of reactivity, pH, calcium content of fruit, filling temperature and more. Learn more here. #Cargill

Alex Andreoli, an associate with the Food and Land Use Coalition and Systemiq, calls for the food and agriculture sector to invest $205 billion annually to halve global food system emissions. With 75% of these emissions coming from agricultural production, new EU regulations will require companies to adopt stringent sustainability measures. Andreoli’s work on the Future Fit Food and Agriculture report series emphasises the need for businesses to integrate voluntary standards and collaborate across value chains to meet these targets. 75% of food systems emissions, projected to be 21 GtCO2e1 per year by 2030, sit within the value chains of food and agriculture companies and come mostly (10 GtCO2e) from agricultural production and associated land use change. Increasingly, governments are proposing new climate legislation to accelerate the sector’s transition to net zero and to force companies to act. While a lot of this is draft and under discussion, the direction of travel is clear: policy-makers are using existing voluntary standards as the basis for legislation. Taking the EU as an example, within the next two years companies should expect to have to comply with the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Deforestation Regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR). These laws will force in-scope companies to integrate due diligence requirements into their operations, mitigate negative impacts across their value chains, ensure that their business models are 1.5°C-aligned and report on sustainability-related issues. Non-compliant companies could face penalties of up to 5% of their global revenues. While the EU is leading the way in much of this, many other countries and jurisdictions have also drafted or implemented legislation along the same lines. For more detail, report 1 of the Future Fit Food and Agriculture series outlines the voluntary standards that are the priority for the food and agriculture sector (eg. SBTi, TCFD, SBTN, TNFD) and provides an overview of key sustainability legislation that companies must be aware of and react to in the next few years. To stay ahead of legislation and protect their license to operate, companies need to use existing and emerging voluntary standards to set and deliver against ambitious climate and nature strategies. In the face of this, how should companies act? Decarbonising food systems is possible. Report 2 of the Future Fit Food and Agriculture series estimates that the food sector could mitigate 9 GtCO2e per year by 2030. To do so, the sector should be prepared to pay an annual $205 billion between 2025 and 2030. While this cost is significant, it represents less than 2% of the sector’s projected average annual revenues for the same period, and one-fifth of this represents investments in new and growing markets. These new markets could lead to additional returns of $190 billion per year by 2030. On top of this, there are a range of solutions that provide efficiency savings and/or increased yields worth up to $30 billion per year. One critical challenge preventing the uptake of these solutions at scale is the inequitable distribution of costs and benefits along the value chain. The same report compares how the costs associated with mitigating 30% of their agricultural emissions impact three businesses at different stages of the value chain. For a trader and multinational food company, these costs amount to approximately 3% and 1% of their revenues respectively, but for a farmer, they could be as high as 17% of revenues. For farmers, such costs could trigger insolvency and they cannot be expected to shoulder this burden alone. There are already examples of food companies making significant investments in their operations and supply chains (eg. Mars and Nestle) to capture new business opportunities and meet environmental targets, but this approach needs to be more widespread with companies working across their supply chains to create the right mechanisms, financing arrangements and support that enables the change we need. Along with the distribution of costs and benefits depending on where in the value chain businesses sit, they will also differ by the commodity being produced. Typically, livestock emissions will remain harder to abate than plant-based commodities, and mitigating these will cost more per tonne of carbon. Therefore, companies should build specific decarbonisation pathways that identify where they can achieve mitigation and what the associated costs of actions will be. For some producers, this may even be an opportunity to achieve negative emissions (ie. sequester more carbon than they emit in production) and be paid a premium to do so. There are several asks businesses should be making of policymakers to help support this transition. These range from continuing to use existing voluntary frameworks as the basis of national legislation, to subsidy reform, carbon pricing mechanisms and aligning public procurement policies with sustainable, healthy foods. Compared to other sectors (eg. energy) the transition is not capital intensive and the need for permits is unlikely to be a cause for delay. For comparison, the power sector needs an average of $2.4 trillion invested each year between now and 2050 to decarbonise and while permitting restrictions can make constructing wind and solar farms difficult, few such limits exist to impede food system transformation. By mitigating a significant share of the emissions from their value chains, food and agriculture companies will make their supply chains more resilient while also meeting other environmental needs. From a commercial perspective, taking action now will enable companies to recoup investments through new market entry and make use of the increasingly available subsidies. #opinion #foodsystem #decarbonisation

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Access more as a FoodBev subscriber Sign up to FoodBev and unlock more insights from the international food and beverage industry. Subscribers have access to webinars, newsletters, publications and more... Subscribe now > 19 - 21 June 2024 Shanghai, China Event Hi & Fi Asia-China 2024 See All > Hi & Fi Asia-China is the go-to meeting place for all industry players active in the Chinese food, beverage, and health industries, who come to reconnect with key contacts while making new connections. Allow our wide range of co-located events to give you access to the entire industry value chain. Organizers: Informa Markets China Chamber of Commerce for Import & Export of Medicines & Health Products (CCCMHPIE) Range of exhibits: Healthy Ingredients Beverage Ingredients Animal and plant extracts Food ingredients Functional and healthy food Ingredients Food additives Natural organic Ingredients Flavors, spices, and condiments Pet food Ingredients What we can offer: 500+ Exhibitors 12000+ Visitors 30+ Content sessions 115+ Countries representing Features for 2024: Pet Nutrition New Product Zone: Introducing our 2024 Pet Nutrition feature! The zone displays a wide range of new pet nutrition products to impress Chinese professionals. Probiotic Panel: 60+ Exhibitors, 2 Themed Forums: Continuing our focus on gastrointestinal health, we have 2 separate forums on probiotic products and trends. Join the Health Products Association - China (HPA) and the Shanghai Society of Food Science for insightful discussions. Nutricosmetics New Trend Summit and Innovation Tour: Discover the rising trend of nutrition cosmetology. Our summit gathers industry experts to share new ingredients and applications. Following a Nutricosmetic innovation tour will also be a good choice for you to learn more about the Chinese market! China Authentic Agricultural Flavors and Fragrances Origin Promotion Zone: Explore China's diverse climate and its abundance of agricultural products, particularly flavors and fragrances. In collaboration with Sino Aroma, we showcase quality ingredients and host themed seminars. Forum for Beverage Ingredient Revitalization: Join our forum to explore the future of beverage ingredients. We partner with the China Stevia Association and the Shanghai Beverage Industry Association. Engage in forums and VIP member tours. The Alternative Protein Era Forum: Reshaping the Future of Food Technology: Discover innovative protein technologies and their impact on sustainable development. Join us to inspire innovation and infrastructure in the F&B industry. Official websites: For International: https://www.figlobal.com/china/en/home.html For Chinese: www.fia-china.com Contact Information Sini. Bai, +86 21 33392212, sini.bai@imsinoexpo.com

Access more as a FoodBev subscriber Sign up to FoodBev and unlock more insights from the international food and beverage industry. Subscribers have access to webinars, newsletters, publications and more... Subscribe now > 11 – 13 June 2024 Raleigh, NC, USA Event Plant Molecular Farming for Alternative Proteins and Agbio Summit See All > With the flux of investments and innovative technologies within the Plant Molecular Farming field starting to bloom, including the likes of Moolec Science , Miruku and BioBetter progressing their farming efforts, now is a critical window in which molecular farming pioneers must take advantage of innovative expression platforms and downstream technologies to overperform with yields, taste, texture, and nutrient profiles. The Plant Molecular Farming for Alternative Proteins and Agbio Summit is a networking and knowledge-sharing event for pioneering companies in the molecular farming sector to explore expression platforms and downstream technologies, overperforming with yields, taste, texture, and nutrient profiles. The Summit will bring together over 40 stakeholders across agbiotech, ingredient suppliers, big seed, and academia in June (11-13) to discuss a range of different topics surrounding both process and regulation, ranging from protein expression to USDA and FDA insights, and pre-competitive collaboration between molecular farming biotechs, ingredient suppliers and big seed. It will ultimately provide cutting-edge content regarding genetic engineering precision and quality production, in the now critical window for molecular farming pioneers. Join C-level pioneers, innovation leads, product development experts and regulators from the likes of the FDA , USDA , The Good Food Institute , Impossible Foods , BioBetter , Core Biogenesis , Mozza Foods and Forte Protein as they take you on their upstream and downstream journeys to produce quality proteins and growth factors that unlock new commercial potential.