Oils & shortenings
Helping you win with nutrition-conscious consumers
As consumers carefully examine food labels and make an effort to eat “healthier,” the pressure is on food designers and manufacturers to create products with an appealing nutrition facts label. Consumers don’t want to compromise on taste, texture or mouth feel either. They want the high quality products they expect — with lower fat levels and zero grams of trans fat per serving. Cargill is your partner in this effort, and this Web site is designed to be a resource of knowledge about fats and oils solutions.
Our vast food ingredient portfolio, deep level of consumer insight and decades of experience in formulating and reformulating food products are at your service. We look forward to applying what we have and what we know to helping you create on-target food products that are winners with today’s more nutrition-savvy consumers.
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 Consumers are growing more aware of the ingredients listed on the packages of the foods that they buy. They look for recognizable ingredients and believe that fewer ingredients listed means that a product is more natural. Since there are no U.S. regulations or industry-wide definition of clean label, there are several options for finding opportunity in this space.
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 Saturated fat intake has been a dietary concern for many years, but it took a back seat during the trans fat crusade. However, regulatory agencies and social influencers are turning their eyes back to saturated fats, which were used in large part to replace trans fats in packaged goods.
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 Federal and state governments are enacting policies related to food and health, such as improving school lunches and regulating trans and saturated fats. Public initiatives are raising awareness of the relationship between diet and health. However, consumers are confused about what they should eat to be healthy, and rely on package labeling when making purchasing decisions.
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 The global demand for palm oil has seen a rapid growth, not only in the U.S., but also from developing economies such as China and India. This increased demand is putting pressure on the areas of cultivation, raising environmental and social concerns including forest and habitat conservation, peat land conversion, the use of fire to clear land, the need to protect waterways.
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Some Cargill products are only approved for use in certain geographies, end uses, and/or at certain usage levels. It is the customer's responsibility to determine, for a particular geography, that (i) the Cargill product, its use and usage levels, (ii) the customer's product and its use, and (iii) any claims made about the customer's product, all comply with applicable laws and regulations.
