Copihue: New Brand of Organic Seeds

05 May 2017 --- Unicorn Ingredients, British supplier of ingredients for the bakery market has recently announced the launch of a new brand of organic seeds. Available for food manufacturers and the health food retail sector, Copihue is a premium organic range comprising of some of the most popular seeds in today’s market, including sesame, pumpkin, poppy, sunflower, millet, flax, linseed, buckwheat, quinoa and chia.

Copihue is a flowering vine that is the national flower of Chile and is used to make honey. Unicorn already has the registered trademark and supplies Copihue branded honey to China. As many of its organic seeds are sourced in China the decision to choose Copihue as the brand name for the new organic seeds was a logical progression.

“Our organic seeds business is growing and although it is still a small proportion of our overall seeds portfolio, we feel it is important to give it an identity all of its own, which enables the market to distinguish our premium organic seeds from other products,” explains joint managing director, Frank Horan. “Copihue will become synonymous with quality and consistency, backed by our expertise in supply chain management, which provides full traceability of the seeds from grower to the food manufacturer.”

Frank told FoodIngredientsFirst: “Copihue is Unicorn Ingredients' new Trademark for organic seeds so we can give this part of the business its own identity. But we do also sell branded Copihue honey in China, and have sold organic seeds as part of the Unicorn Ingredients product range in the UK for a longtime.” 
 
“We hope to broaden the Cophihue organic range as we go, and feel confident in the quality performance,” explains Horan. 
 
Is this likely to drive further development in organic seed sector? “Perhaps by giving some certainty over the quality performance of the product, which has been variable from some sources in the past,” he notes.

Unicorn Ingredients holds the BRC Standard for Agents and Brokers as a broker of seeds as well as oils (sesame and olive), honey and pulses, providing customers with a guarantee of quality assurance combined with the convenience of hassle-free sourcing from one respected supplier.

by Elizabeth Green