Nestle teams up with Canadian plant-based ingredients makers

Burcon NutraScience

24/01/2020 07:10

ZURICH, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Food group Nestle  NESN.S  has
teamed up with Canadian plant-based food ingredient makers
Burcon  BU.TO  and Merit to speed up innovation in the
fast-growing business segment, it said on Friday.
    The collaboration will allow Nestle, which launched soy and
wheat protein-based "Incredible Burgers" in Europe last year, to
tap into Burcon's proprietary plant protein extraction and
purification technology as well as Merit's plant protein
production capabilities.
    Burcon Nutrascience specialises in making novel plant-based
proteins derived from pea, canola, soy, hemp, sunflower seed and
various other crops, while Merit Functional Foods is building a
commercial-scale production facility to produce plant-based
protein using Burcon's technology. 

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