21 Feb 2024 --- From weathering erratic climate conditions to blanket price hikes and stricter food legislation being rolled out across the EU Single Market, stakeholders across the organic food... Read More

23 Jan 2024 --- Nestlé has unveiled its first KitKat made with cocoa mass in Europe, that uses high traceability standards and ‘mixed identity preserved’ traceability, enabling... Read More

18 Dec 2023 --- 18 Dec 2023 --- Food Ingredients First celebrates the holiday season by looking back at some of the most significant news stories in 2023. The year has been packed with AI-enhanced... Read More

04 Oct 2023 --- The consumer demand for organic ingredients around the world has accelerated in recent years as the COVID-19 pandemic encouraged consumers to look more closely at how foods and... Read More

24 Aug 2023 --- Leading ingredient suppliers Tradin Organic, Cargill and ofi are harnessing satellite monitoring solutions and AI to advance supply chain transparency as Europe prepares for the new... Read More

01 Mar 2024 --- On the showfloor of Biofach in Nuremberg, Germany, Floor van de Dalfsen, sustainability manager at Tradin Organic discusses the ongoing “perfect storm” of supply issues impacting multiple commodities across the organic value chain. She points to extreme weather conditions hurting cacao harvests, alongside tightening requirements surrounding sustainability, traceability and transparency in the EU.

29 Mar 2023 --- FoodIngredientsFirst spoke to Karst Kooistra, sourcing development director of Tradin Organic, about traceability and Sunvado, its avocado oil project in Ethiopia. Sunvado works with 32,000 smallholder farmers helping to set up organic certification, which allows them to set a premium organic price for the avocados they produce.

03 Aug 2020 --- Tradin Organic is truly a unique player on the global organic market – with its sustainable sourcing and manufacturing combined with a high level of energy and optimism, the team at Tradin Organic is fully dedicated to helping their customers to go #BeyondOrganic and create unique products with a story.

18 Feb 2019 --- Tradin Organic is extending its presence in Sierra Leone by strengthening its sourcing team in Kenema, the country’s second largest city, and by setting up two new warehouses in Mondema and Ngandong. The organic ingredients supplier is aiming for a fully integrated supply chain, which is “aided by the remoteness of the chosen sourcing areas, making it suitable for organic production, because the risk of chemical contamination is low.”

30 Jan 2018 --- Sourcing from more than 60 countries around the world, Tradin Organic supplies over 180 organic and certified ingredients, such as certified organic cocoa, sesame and sunflower in bulk. FoodIngredientsFirst spoke with Wouter Floot, Commercial Director of EMEA at Tradin Organic, about the company’s sustainability strategy as well as regulatory aspects regarding organic standards and residue testing, and the challenges these bring.

13 Nov 2015 --- Our organic coconut sugar is sourced from Indonesia where it is collected from the sugary sap of the organic coconut palms. We work with over 3,000 farmers who collect the nectar of the flowers and process it into organic coconut sugar. Each farmer has an average of 25 trees that they use for collection and coconut production. The farmers scale the trees, selectively wrap bundles of coconut palm flowers and collect the nectar into the bamboo collectors. They are careful to only collect from flower bundles on specific trees in order to let other trees continue their growth into mature coconuts. The nectar is collected twice a day, in the morning and afternoon.

Cold pressing, which involves chopping then crushing produce without the use of heat yields very nutritious, natural, and delicious juice. The dilemma is that unpasteurized juice without... Read More