Protein Innovation to be Celebrated at Second Annual Protein Awards

31 Mar 2017 --- Bridge2Food, the international food industry networking company, has launched its 2nd Protein Awards, which celebrate innovators creating new categories, products and ingredients to meet the increasing demand for affordable, healthy and sustainable protein.

Gerard Klein Essink, director, Bridge2Food said, “Protein is in the global spotlight as we strive to meet the nutritional needs of a population set to hit 9 billion by 2040.”

“Protein is an integral part of a healthy diet but current consumption and production levels are unsustainable.”

“Our awards celebrate those creating products and ingredients using animal, alternative and plant-based protein sources, and the disruptors driving innovation to help secure the future of the industry.”

The awards are part the 10th Protein Summit, a 4-in-1 Industry Summit (Plant-based Foods, High Protein Foods, Protein Ingredients and Protein Processing Summits) and Exhibition which the company says brings together 300+ experts in food, ingredients, technology, research, feed and pet food industries to discuss latest innovations and create new protein strategies for the future. 

Award finalists and winners benefit from global marketing exposure through Bridge2Food’s online community of 40,000 food specialists, its website, newsletters to 28,000 subscribers, media partners, marketing and public relations. 

The Award Categories are: 

•    Best New Category Development: awarded to a company that has created a new category within the food and protein sector 
•    Best New Protein Food: awarded to a truly innovative product that has introduced a new concept, offered real value and had a significant market impact. 
•    Most Disruptive Innovation: awarded to a truly disruptive and innovative technology that has changed the market for a better food world. 
•    Most Novel Ingredient: celebrates new protein ingredients that are truly innovative and offered measurable benefits for manufacturers and consumers.

Last year, Best New Protein Food was awarded to Gold&Green Foods for Pulled Oats – a “perfect protein food” that is 100% plant based and ecologically produced. 

The Most Disruptive Innovation Award was won by Calysta for Feedkind Protein – a proprietary new fish and animal feed ingredient targeted at replacing fishmeal, produced using the world’s only commercially validated gas fermentation process.

Most Novel Ingredient award was won by IGV GmbH for its Vegetal Flakes, a pea-protein extrude which is an ingredient for various end-product industries. 

The 10th Protein Summit, will be held between the 26th-28th September 2017 in Reims, France.