00:06Hello everybody.

00:07This is William Bradford Nichols with Food Ingredients First, and I am here at Anooga 2023 in Colm.

00:15Germany with Jose Vanilla Ladara, the export manager for Euro Caviar.

00:21Hello sir, how are you today?

00:22Hi, doing very good.

00:23Just arrived, so pretty excited.

00:26Here we are on the first day.

00:28We'd love to talk to you about what Eurocaviar is featuring at the trade show today.

00:32Can you tell me a little bit about the products you're offering?

00:34Yeah, absolutely.

00:36We're a Spanish company.

00:37We are the oldest company doing food spheres.

00:41It's basically it's a culinary technique named verification, which basically we transform the meat of the fish, the flesh of the fish or the raw ingredients into a pearl.

00:55So it's a very exciting technique because it's a natural process.

01:00So instead of using the eggs of the fish, we use the meat, you know, right?

01:05So it's a great alternative to all.

01:07Type of caviars, and the main advantage of the pearls that we use here is that you can cook at high temperatures.

01:15You can put it in the oven.

01:16You can fry, so that that gives us an extra value for the chefs and the restaurants because they can, they can use this product as an ingredient, not just something that they're going to use for topping or decoration, but it's a, you know, a great advantage in the in the kitchen for the chefs, so.

01:34We have different kind of products.

01:35We have salmon.

01:37We have mullet rose and, and herring.

01:42We have anchovy, you know, we apply the same technique into different fishes, right?

01:47And then we have the seaweed and the sweet lime.

01:52We have some new exciting products that we are presenting here in the show.

01:56We have the guacame seaweed.

01:59We have the.

02:00Cadium seaweed, which is a Spanish seaweed, it comes from the northwest, , then we have a sweet line like a strawberry, mango, so very exciting products here, yeah.

02:11And can you tell us a little bit more about your, seaweed alternative to caviar?

02:17Like how, how a little bit more about how that's sourced and how that kind of came to be as a concept?

02:22Yeah, so it's the same story as a fish we apply the technique of the.

02:27Purification.

02:27So we, we bring to our factory different kind of seaweed.

02:31So now we have our company produce two kinds of, seaweed.

02:35We are doing the guacame, which is, let's say the most popular, seaweed that we have.

02:41It comes from, straight from a guacae.

02:44So we apply this, we use this technique into the guacae to get the pearls, and you know what you get in the, in the mouth is a guacame but in a pearl, so.

02:53Just like that, right, you're going to be using this for Asian cuisine, for sushi, for all kinds of Japanese dish.

03:02You can use this also as topping and salads, even in fish, so all kinds of, you know, possibilities.

03:10And then we have a more specific seaweed named podium, which is a rare to find seaweed comes from Galicia, which is in northwest of Spain.

03:19And actually this is a more a deeper seaweed in terms of flavor.

03:25You're gonna feel more of sea in your mouth.

03:28It has more personality, you know, it's a deeper taste, so different profiles, right?

03:34The ones that are looking for more like an easygoing, seaweed will be the guaae, and the ones we're looking for more like complex, seaweed, we have, the call you, right?

03:44We have a few exciting projects in the future that could bring different seaweeds from different parts of the world using the same technique and the result will be different, different profiles depending on the seaweed that that we use.

03:57So I'm pretty excited.

03:58That's amazing and I was able to sample the seaweed of caviar alternative a little bit delicious and I see that it also has the vegan certified symbol on it.

04:09Yeah, we're vegan certified.

04:11We are halal certified.

04:12We are kosher certified, IFS, of course, and yeah, you know, we've been around since 1983, so quite a long journey.

04:22Yeah, very excited to see the result here in Anugua.

04:28Thank you so much for talking to us today.

04:29I hope you have a great rest of the show and enjoy your day.

04:31Yeah, thank you.

04:32Thanks for the interview.