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The world of food & beverages is constantly moving. Consumers demand products that are natural, nutritious and sustainable. They also expect delicious. Team up with us to create new products and better recipes, and stay ahead of the competition.

Four ways to appeal to modern consumers

By working with us, you benefit from our expertise and fresh thinking. Make the most of our unique ingredients portfolio and discover new ways to create appealing products. Bakery boosters or chocolate confectionery ingredients, toppings for desserts or aromatic spice blends for ready meals—the choice is yours.

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Discover indulgent sensory experiences

Enhance the taste experience, improve texture, delight the senses. Use our natural ingredients derived from cocoa, coffee, dairy, nuts or spices to create delicious new products or refresh existing ones.

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Develop plant-based alternatives

Develop new plant-based recipes such as cashew cheese and nut-based chocolate drinks. Compete in the vegan and vegetarian sector, and tempt consumers who have switched to plant-based foods.

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Deliver on wellness and nutrition needs

Engage the wellness market and nutrition-conscious consumer. Harness the health benefits of dairy ingredients, spices and nuts to create tasty, nutritious products that consumers love.

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Go natural and clean label

Celebrate naturalness and move away from ultra-processed ingredients. Create clean-label recipes with fewer, simpler ingredients. Source organic and GMO-free ingredients with no artificial flavours or preservatives.

Global commitment to innovate, ideate and co-create 

Wherever you are, you can be certain we’re nearby. Our global network of innovation & application centers is a hive of fresh thinking, great ideas and ingredient expertise.

 

Totally in tune with local tastes and food preferences, we are constantly looking for new ways to deliver value, quality and sustainability. 

Our global network and local chefs and food scientists will help you explore taste experiences and create recipes that delight consumers.

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Discover traceable, nutritious & delicious category formulations

It’s easy to make something taste amazing. It’s much harder to fill it with nutritional benefits too. And what about making sure it’s ethically sourced and right for the planet?

With a common thread through consumption and category trends, our ingredients enable a myriad of opportunities to create naturally good food & beverage products for your consumers. Our fresh ideas fit well with applications for bakery, beverages, confectionery, desserts - just to name a few attractive consumption categories. Also, offering many opportunities for those plant-based options that have become so popular.

Bakery

Your next cookie filling, cake topping, pie crust, biscuit crumb or bread mix starts with our playground of ingredients. Let’s get busy combining tastes, textures and colors that not only delight consumers, but also the people and planet around them. Give sweet treats a natural twist by combining our cocoa powder and nut pastes to create indulgent center-filled cookies with a premium texture. 

Beverages

From cold brewed spiced coffee to golden milk made with dairy powder or nuts to suit modern consumer preferences. Even the most basic ingredient can make a real difference. With us, you can customize and co-create from plant to palate to find taste, texture and nutritional profiles that make your hot, cold, or plant-based beverages unique.

Chocolate & Confectionery

The world loves cocoa, in chocolate, confectionery, ice cream, bars and desserts. The need to make these better for our bodies and planet has never been greater. We’re bringing lots of fresh thinking to the table – like reducing sugar and sodium in recipes with clever cocoa creations and vegan, organic and traceable solutions. How about creating delicious vegan ‘milk’ chocolate bars with our gluten-free and grain-free cashew flour?

Dairy & Desserts

Emerging flavor trends in milks, yogurts and ice-creams are a real opportunity to create healthy, tasty, formulations that consumers can indulge in. Why not try new twists on familiar pairings, such as chocolate doughnut and coffee flavored ice cream? In cocoa alone, our R&D specialists can help tackle challenges in both dairy and plant-based desserts: from a unique methodology to pair cocoa powders with pea, nut, or oat bases to address taste, to reducing bitterness of FMP formats with our Fresco Cacao.

Savory & Culinary

It’s great when you can respond to trends. It’s even better when you spark them yourself. Together, we can create sauces, nut-based cheeses, and spice blends that fulfil existing desires or even feed new ones. How about putting a new spin on traditional dishes with trend-led ingredients like our choco mole sauce inspired by the Oaxaca region of Mexico? Using authentic spices and premium cocoa, this sauce is rich in antioxidants with a deep color and enticing aroma that will delight the senses.  

Snacking

Join our search for the next trail mix, cereal, or snack bar hit. Together, we can find new ingredient combinations that fulfil consumer desire for taste, texture, nutrition, and traceability. One idea? Take consumers on a journey through the world’s most vibrant cuisines with seasoned nut recipes drawing on our Blends of the Americas spice range, including Blanched Almonds with Spicy Citrus Coast and Candied Cashews with Warm Sedona Sunset. 

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Press Release Mar 14, 2025
Innovative ofi app targeting infant malnutrition wins at UK’s largest sustainable business awards
  • A smartphone-based application being deployed by global food ingredients supplier ofi to tackle infant malnutrition has won the ‘Social Sustainability Project of the Year’ category at this year’s Edie awards, which celebrate sustainability leadership.

 

The Infant Malnutrition System Alert (IMSA) app was developed by ofi sustainability analyst Dr Stéphanie Konan PhD to address high-rates of infant malnutrition in Côte d’Ivoire, where one in five children experience stunted growth and development. It is the first digital health screening service in the country, powered by a geographic information system. By sending alerts to nearby or configured healthcare facilities of registered cases in real-time, IMSA digitized the malnutrition monitoring, enabling quicker treatment, facilitating follow-up, and providing the National Nutrition Program with insightful high level reports.

 

Since 2019, during the Journée d’Intensification des Activités de Nutrition (JIAN) in Côte d’Ivoire, ofi has been supporting the digitalization of malnutrition screening by using IMSA. This annual campaign is part of its existing nutrition and health programs in Côte d’Ivoire, where it sources cashew, cocoa, and coffee from over 185,000 farming families and via a vast network of local traders.

 

In 2024, working in partnership with Côte d’Ivoire’s National Nutrition Program, ofi teams and volunteers screened over 22,000 children in cashew communities in the Béoumi district. 370 moderate and acute cases of malnutrition were identified and referred to healthcare facilities. The app also allows ofi to track every case referred for treatment, allowing for 6-month follow-ups.

 

ofi’s field workers, together with its partners, and local community health workers, also delivered crucial interventions including deworming and Vitamin A tablets, and information on good nutrition – as studies show that infant malnutrition can be largely attributed to a lack of education and low literacy rates.

 

As well as the Edie award, IMSA and its contribution to national efforts to combat malnutrition was awarded the Prize for Research and Innovation by Côte d'Ivoire’s Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in 2023.

 

The developer of the app, ofi’s sustainability analyst Dr Stéphanie Konan PhD, said: “IMSA was born from a simple idea: that replacing the existing paper-based screening with a digital solution could enable earlier detection and treatment. From that simple idea, collaboration and partnership has built a successful program. ofi’s local teams, embedded in farming communities, have trained community health service agents and established partnerships with local health authorities to reach tens of thousands of farming families."

 

“What’s really exciting is the great potential IMSA offers for scaling up malnutrition screening and interventions across other regions and countries facing similar public health issues. These kinds of innovative ideas delivered at scale are central to delivering ofi’s long-term ambition to help farming communities thrive.

 

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Articles Mar 11, 2025
Women's Inclusion: The Key to Accelerating Climate Action

By Janhavi Naidu, Human Rights & Inclusion Manager, ofi

 

Climate action relies not just on technology or policy - it centers on people and the deep connections they have with the land that sustains them. Within our agricultural communities, there is an overlooked force that can be unleashed to fight climate change: women.

 

The climate challenge for women

 

Women are the backbone of global agrifood systems - in some countries, they make up nearly half of the agricultural labor force. In Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, more women are employed in agriculture than men—66% and 71% respectively. Though vital, their role is often undervalued, and they remain largely excluded from the resources they need to be successful.

 

Climate change exacerbates this inequality. With limited land titles or assets, women struggle to secure credit to help them recover from weather-related damages. Without access to capital, training or technical assistance, they’re less-equipped to adopt climate-smart practices or increase crop yields that could help them mitigate future impacts. And as more extreme weather events affect communities across the globe, women are often left to pick up the pieces in their roles as unpaid carers.

 

In ofi’s supply chains, women play a pivotal role - as landowners, family workers, hired workers and extension agents and traders. Imagine the transformative potential if these women were fully empowered - how much stronger, more resilient, and more sustainable our food systems could be.

 

The case for making climate action more inclusive

 

The UN estimates that if all women smallholders had equal access to resources, their farm yields would rise by 20-30% per cent and carbon dioxide emissions could be reduced by 21 gigatons by 2050 through improved farm practices. That’s twice the annual emissions of China.

 

Women often perform specialised care-taking tasks on farms like soil and water management, seedling and nursery management, pest control, and post-harvest processing, making them critical to adoption of new climate-smart technologies and practices at scale. In our own programs, we’ve seen that women tend to embrace climate-smart agriculture practices at higher rates than men when provided with the right training.

 

In northern Vietnam for example, my colleague Yen and her team are running an organic cassia program, where 18% of the participants are women. With no formal agricultural training, the women have replaced chemical fertilizers with organic matter, incentivized by the higher price they can get for selling organic and the additional quality premium ofi offers.

 

We’ve also learnt that when able to, women are more likely to reinvest more of their earnings in their families and communities than their male counterparts, improving food security and reducing the risk of child labor. A Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) set up by our cocoa team in Cote D’Ivoire has enabled women to venture into vegetable cultivation and even set up a hair salon. These independent income streams help women finance their children’s education and reinvest into the collective savings pot to serve their community.

 

Our role on the path to empowerment

 

Unlocking the potential of women requires investment in education and training programs, ensuring they have access to credit and technology, and creating spaces for them to lead. Women must be brought into the decision-making processes at every level—from local farming communities to global policy discussions.

 

We do this either through setting up dedicated programs for women or building in inclusion initiatives to existing ones. In Brazil, where many women play ‘supporting roles’ in coffee production despite owning farms, we created Café Delas, a specialty coffee brand produced exclusively by women. When roasters buy Café Delas they get specialty coffee that’s 100% traceable and ofi reinvests three cents per pound from every sale into training and tools for these women to help them run and develop a successful coffee enterprise.

 

Some of my proudest moments at ofi have been hearing from women who since joining our programs have gained the confidence to engage in leadership roles. Women like coffee farmer Normalina who is taking part in the ‘Coffee for Communities’ program with roaster Tim Hortons in Indonesia. Over half the participants are women, born into a coffee culture in North Sumatra where they are rarely recognized as farmers. Equipping them with technical and land-management skills helps them become decision-makers and leaders on their farms.

 

I am moved by Normalina’s proud words: “The project has given me the confidence to take charge of my farm and contribute more to my community.”

 

ofi’s combined activities reached nearly 90,000 women across our global supply chains last year, delivering GAP training, inputs, credit, technical skills and income diversification resources. The wide view we take across the value chain means we know the interconnected benefits this can deliver - from safeguarding children, to increasing adoption of climate smart practices. Which is why we’ve set ourselves a dedicated target to scale our impact and support 250,000 women to improve their livelihoods by 2030, under ofi’s Choices for Change sustainability strategy.

 

To guide these efforts, we’ve developed a global toolkit to help our field teams improve women’s inclusion in their supply chains. Teams using the toolkit take a quick assessment to determine their position on an inclusion roadmap and select from a comprehensive compendium of activities – like training, access to infrastructure and inputs, and community development - to implement in their regions according to the local context.

 

This year’s International Women’s Day theme is ‘Accelerate Action’. Empowering more women in agriculture can help shift away from a narrow focus on productivity to a broader vision that includes sustainability, resilience, and social equity. This is the kind of leadership the world needs in the face of climate change.

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