Avena Best Pea Hull Fiber © (90% TDF) is a natural and clean-label ingredient upcycled from cleaned pea hulls. As food manufacturers seek out ways to incorporate a higher percentage of dietary fiber into consumer products, Avena Best Pea Hull Fibers stand out as functional ingredients that tick all the boxes.
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Mike Gallais, Director of Procurement, Avena Foods, shares his insights in this Spring 2023 crop report for gluten-free oat and pulse market.
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Avena Purity Protocol fine and extra fine oat flours are a RTE, functional food ingredient. They can be used in plant-based food and beverage applications.
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Avena is more than doubling its gluten-free oat ingredient production capacity with the commissioning of a new mill on the Canadian Prairies. This facility is located in one of the best oat growing regions of the world.
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Egg shortages and rising prices, coupled with consumer demand for plant-based foods and beverages, have manufacturers scrambling to find alternatives to egg ingredients. Avena’s Best Functional Pulse Flours are ready-to-eat (RTE), cost-effective, clean-and-clear-label ingredients that provide binding, viscosity, emulsification, gelation, and structure. They offer food manufacturers a viable replacement for eggs, at a lower cost and with a stable supply.
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What’s Ahead for Canadian Pulse and Oat Ingredients?
In 2022, global demand for pulse and oat ingredients is soaring. At the same time, concerns are growing about environmental impacts and global food security.
Against this backdrop, specialty miller Avena Foods held a ‘Customer and Farmer Appreciation Day’ on 4 August, to explore the role that these crops can play in promoting more sustainable systems of food production.
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Regina, Saskatchewan (August 17, 2022) – Canadian specialty pulse and oat miller Avena Foods Limited (Avena) has announced a major step forward for its sustainability program with the creation of a Sustainability Advisory Panel.
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First aggregate findings of Avena’s pulse and oat regenerative ag project with Field to Market Canada are to be presented at Avena’s Customer and Farmer Appreciation Day in Rowatt, SK, on Aug. 4. Field to Market Canada president Harvey Bradford talks about how his organization is working with Avena to assess and document environmental performance on the farm.
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Avena Foods Purity Protocol gluten-free oat ingredients are Glyphosate Residue Free certified by The Detox Project. Products or ingredients bearing a Glyphosate Residue Free Label contain less than 10 parts per billion of the herbicide.
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The 2021 crop is in the ground. Rain across the Prairies over the past two weeks has meant that the small percentage of growers who were waiting for moisture to finish their acres, have been able to complete seeding. Due to dry conditions this spring, farms were seeded corner to corner with no sloughs or potholes to work around. Hopefully the old saying will be true: If you seed in the dust, your granaries will bust!
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