Newly- formed Dutch firm Solanic witnesses 'phenomenal response' to its potato protein portfolio, confirming growing market demand from food makers for vegetable-derived proteins as rising raw material costs continue to bite and the galloping health trend brings added appeal to clean label ingredients.
Fully-owned by Dutch potato co-operative Avebe, Solanic geared up for production of its potato proteins at the beginning of 2008, when the doors opened on its first full-scale factory to manufacture the potato proteins.
Historically, Avebe produced starch from potatoes;while the proteins, part of the waste stream, were sold-off for low-value animal feed. But a new technological process that makes these very same proteins fit for human consumption has in turn, unlocked a new, far higher value market, for the Dutch co-operative.
