The Challenge for Nature, for Manufacturers, for the Consumers and for the Farmers.
The foods we love are often associated with ugly realities. This is particularly true of cocoa, coffee and cashews-based products. What do these commodities have in common? They are commodities, mostly grown in Africa, whose well-known ingredients are very popular with consumers.
The cacao fruit, the coffee fruit and the cashew apple are the most wasted commodities in the conventional processing industry.
These commodities are only partially exploited in the modern manufacturing industry, despite the high potential of the raw materials as a whole or their by-products (known as waste) for people and nature.
Overall, the challenges can be formulated as follows:
About 70% of the cocoa, coffee and cashew fruit is considered waste, despite their nutritional and sensory properties.
Commodity prices are rising sharply. For example, the cost of cocoa beans is rising to the point where chocolate could be more expensive than caviar.
Consumers are increasingly demanding healthy food because they are faced with challenges of a busy working life, heart disease and obesity, to name but a few.
Despite the high demand for raw materials, farmers remain poor. For example, the income of a cocoa farming family in 2020/2021 was USD 4,937.
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