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PROTEIN PRODUCTS FOR FEEDS AND FOODSTUFFS RECEIVE INAUGURAL AWARDS
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The 9th Protein Summit brought together experts from around the world to share their visions and discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the global proteins world.
illers and the milling industry, whether for food or feed use, scored highly in the recent Bridge2Food awards held in Lille, France at the 9th Protein Summit which ran from September 19-21, 2016. The Best New Protein Food Award went to Gold & Green Foods for its ‘Pulled Oats’ – a perfect protein food that is 100 percent plant-based and ecologically produced. The awards made this year were inaugural and will be repeated annually. The ‘Pulled Oats’ product has a superior amino acid profile, more protein than chicken breast, a meat-like texture and delicious juicy taste, says judge Claire Nuttall, Founder of Brand Incubator.
THE EXPERT JUDGING PANEL Best New Protein Food • Claire Nuttall, Founder, The Brand Incubator • Pat Robinson, Business Development Manager, CircleUp (USA) • Sam Waterfall – Senior Consultant, The Healthy Marketing Team Ltd (UK) • Roger Gilbert, Managing Director, Perendale Publishing (UK) • Juliette De Perthuis, Consultant, Nutrikeo Most Disruptive Innovation • Dr Anne Wagner, Corporate Research & Development Director, Tereos (France) • Dr Volker Heinz, Managing Director, DIL (Germany) • Dr Rickey Yada - Professor, Land & Food Systems University of British Columbia (Canada) • Dr Kees de Gooijer – TKI Agri & Food (The Netherlands) • Prof Dr-Ing Bernhard van Lengerich, Seeding the Future Foundation Most Novel Ingredient • Dr Cindy Gerhardt, COO Biotechnology Centre, DSM (The Netherlands) • Mike Velings, co-Founder, Aqua-Spark • Johan De Coninck – Business Development Manager, IAR (France) • Dr Stacy Pyett, Business Development Manager, NIZO (The Netherlands) • Greg Bonnefin, Group Director, Newly Weds Foods (Thailand) awards@bridge2food.com
86 | October 2016 - Milling and Grain