26 Mar 2024 --- Last week, Food Ingredients First reported on the New Zealand start-up Andfoods’ innovative plant-based milk extraction technology from seeds or “pulses” of legumes — traditionally used as an “orphan crop” to regenerate soil between rice harvests. We now sit down with the company’s CEO, Alex Devereux, to navigate the challenges of capturing the right taste, look and texture in alt-dairy formulations and how their latest innovation can ease the “mounting pressure” on firms to decrease their carbon footprint.