Soluble Cascara Powder

Upcycled Certified ^® Soluble Cascara Powder

ofi has rescued discarded coffee fruit pulp, upcycled it, and converted it into a convenient, ready to use soluble powder that not only retains the good for you components of cascara, but also introduces a new flavor across many attractive food and beverage categories.

Did you know coffee comes from a fruit?

Don't worry this is a surprise to many people. The seed of the fruit is the coffee bean we all know and love, but the fruit itself is often discarded. By rescuing this fruit, we are bringing valuble nutrients back into the food supply, reducing greenhouse gases, and increasing revenues for coffee farmers. Now that's something we can all feel good about.

Upcycled Certified

Soluble cascara powder from ofi is certified as an upcycled ingredient by the Upcycled Food Association (UFA.)

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Beverages

Cascara can be used to make tea, energy drinks, sodas, cocktails, and powdered beverages

Desserts

Cascara can be used to in dessert classics such as ice cream and crème brulee

Bakery

From pastry filling to macaroons, cascara brings a rich, complex flavor

Confectionery

Cascara creates decadent truffles, caramels and sugar boiled candies

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Press Release Jun 18, 2024

Choices for Change: ofi announces new 2030 targets and action plans for resilient ingredient supply chains

New 2030 social and environmental targets set for ofi’s global operations which span ~50 countries, building on the existing product-specific strategies for cocoa, coffee, dairy, nuts, and spices.
Strong focus on supply chain excellence to enhance supplier engagement, mitigate supply chain risks, and give customers more rigorous, verifiable data for sustainability decision-making and reporting.
Impact will be achieved in partnership with farmers, governments, civil society and ofi’s customers, backed by clear action plans and methodologies outlined by ofi.

ofi, a leading supplier of naturally good food and beverage ingredients, today unveiled a new sustainability strategy – ‘Choices for Change’ and ambitious 2030 targets.

Global food brands and retailers are facing growing consumer demand for sustainable products, with increasing weather related and other challenges in the food supply chain and significant new sustainability linked legislation coming up. With ‘Choices for Change’, ofi will provide these companies and their consumers with specific choices to deliver long-term impact across four critical pillars: Prosperous Farmers, Thriving Communities, Climate Action, and Regenerating the Living World.

Every 2030 target in the Choices for Change strategy delivers on key customer needs, including:

Delivering enhanced livelihood support to one million farmers, helping them to be more productive and deliver better quality ingredients.
Cutting scope 3 emissions by 30% to offer customers verifiable, low-carbon products and ingredients and contribute to net-zero commitments.
Bringing 2 million hectares of land under regenerative farming practices to create long-term farm resilience and products with verified positive natural impact.

To give customers more rigorous, verifiable data for sustainability decision-making and reporting, the strategy incorporates a focus on supply chain excellence. This brings traceability, data insights, risk mitigation, verification, and in-depth supplier engagement together to enable the right choices and includes ofi’s suite of award-winning tech tools like AtSource - the sustainability management system and its built in Carbon Scenario Planner for planning and costing climate action.