Food & beverages

It's hard to keep up with ever-changing food and beverage trends. Stay one step ahead and get more out of your raw materials with leading enzyme innovations.

Why biosolutions in your food brands?

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Biosolutions have the power to transform our world

Each year, more than 1.3 billion tons of food is lost or wasted in our food systems. Food loss and waste account for 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The sustainability and quality of our foods and beverages can be improved with biosolutions.

Why use biosolutions in your food brands?

Sustainable foods - feeding a growing world

By 2050, farmers will need to feed an extra 2 billion people. But farms across the world are facing extreme weather and a rise in pests and disease. It's time for a holistic rethink of our food systems - reduce food waste, raise yield quality by optimizing raw materials, and more.

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Health and nutrition

It's becoming increasingly important that the quality of food sustains our growing population; amid evolving consumer needs, health continuity in rising life expectancy, governmental and regulatory focus on ingredients, etc. your foods need to deliver health and nutritional benefits.

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Flexibility and affordability

Forming a system that can create food security without further harming the planet, making crops more climate-impact resilient, using alternative crops and proteins, reducing dependency on chemicals is possible with biosolutions.

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Sensorial and eating experience

Global consumer demands span taste, texture, health, nutrition, sustainability profiles, meaning that food brands need to craft the best eating experiences in order to win favor. Especially when it comes to unconventional, new-age foods needed to feed the planet.

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Sustainable foods - feeding a growing world

Baking

Better baking isn’t just about creating the best possible baked goods for consumers. It’s also about creating them with the least possible impact on the environment. As the toll our consumption is taking on the planet becomes impossible to ignore, the urgency is increasing.

Reduce bread waste

Brewing

Three main areas contribute to the environmental impact of your beer: making the beer itself, which raw materials you use, and packaging. With enzyme technology, you can optimize your processes and raw materials - while elevating your brand and lowering your impact on the planet.

Brew sustainably

Your bio-innovation partner for a cleaner label and greener portfolio

What brand does not want its product portfolio to have a healthier, cleaner label, and a more sustainable profile - at a cost that is fair to both itself and its consumers? As the world leader in biotech, Novozymes has spent decades digging deep into nature's secrets to help you do exactly that - way before our competitors. Novozymes solutions are entirely bio-based, comprising of enzymes and microbes, not funky chemicals or ingredients. This is what makes Novozymes your future-forward innovation partner.

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Sensorial and eating experiences

Baking

Baked goods make everyone’s day better. And whether you’re breaking into the crisp crust of a breakfast roll or savoring a melt-in-your-mouth muffin, the eating experience is key to the enjoyment. Bakers can achieve the softness, elasticity and moistness consumers love with our biosolutions.

How to bake better

Brewing

Today’s brewers know exogenous enzymes are essential to stay relevant, develop business and boost competitiveness. But perhaps you want to use new raw materials to create new flavors? Create low- or non-alcohol beverages that balance sweetness and acidity? Or differentiate your products with sustainability claims?

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Plant-based foods

Whether in sauces and stocks or meat, fish and egg analogs, consumers want great taste and texture. To give them what they want, you need to find answers to a range of complex questions. But in fact, the answers are inside the plants, waiting to be found. Best of all, you can find them with just one toolbox: biosolutions.

Make better plant-based foods

Health and nutrition

Functional foods

Elevate your foods' health potential for consumers across all ages. MenaquinGold® is our natural vitamin K2-7 designed to integrate seamlessly with your foods to help people of all ages maintain bone strength and heart health - and to perform every day.

Fortify your foods

Brewing

Create great new tastes and valuable claims while keeping consumers' health-centric demands in mind. Low-alcohol beer, low-gluten beer, low-carb/ultra light beer are all within reach when you use biosolutions in your brewery.

Brew with health in focus

Plant-based foods

Plant-based foods are still a long way from being the norm, and it's not always the taste and texture that's lacking. Many consumers shy away from the long ingredient lists full of E-numbers and additives. Others want high protein and low fat. Biosolutions can help deliver on these demands to give your plant-based foods a cleaner label and healthier profile.

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Baking

Increasingly, consumers aren’t just looking for more of the good stuff. They want more natural baked goods, with less of what they perceive to be unhealthy ingredients or compounds. With our smarter solutions, it’s no longer an either/or choice. You can help bakers give consumers better-for-you baked goods that still deliver on comfort and indulgence.

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Affordability and flexibility

Brewing

As natural catalysts, enzymes can help you speed up and optimize a variety of key steps in your brewing process. From raw material optimization, cereal cooking, attenuation, fermentation, all the way to filtration and long-term shelf stability, biosolutions can help you gain affordability and flexibility across your brewing production.

Brew smart and sustainably

Baking

Raw material volatility, uncertainty, and prices have led to an increasing demand from the market to deliver high-quality baked goods at affordable prices. Get more out of your ingredient supply by eliminating ingredients you want to avoid and reclaim your operational flexibility within your budget.

Bake more with less

Plant-based foods

What if you could generate umami flavor as a natural and integral part of the protein extrusion process in your meat analogs? It could help your customers avoid the addition of certain labeled ingredients during final product formulation. Find out how this approach could also deliver better flavors, higher yields, and cost reductions.

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Functional foods

Probiotics have moved into the mainstream and appear to be a long-term trend. The probiotic ProSilience™ HU58™ lets you claim the digestive and immune benefits that consumers demand, and create innovative new products outside the dairy category, AND cut your production costs, all at the same time.

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Novozymes and Chr. Hansen have joined forces to create Novonesis. This means that we can now offer you even more solutions within food & beverages.

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