Symrise Diana Food Debuts Agronomy Training for Farmers Supplying Baby Food Ingredients

The program focuses on best practices for soil biodiversity and aims at improving the quality and yield of the key crops used in baby foods.
The program focuses on best practices for soil biodiversity and aims at improving the quality and yield of the key crops used in baby foods.

Symrise Diana Food has announced it has organized and instituted a new training session to target farmers in the French Alps who supply fruits for baby food. The program focuses on best practices for soil biodiversity and aims at improving the quality and yield of the key crops used in baby foods.

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With this training, Symrise Diana Food agronomists can show farmers the role soil plays in producing fruits and vegetables that capture all the inherent goodness of their soil for maximum output. Combining this new technical knowledge with the farmers’ traditional methods yields a very high quality.

Symrise Diana Food offers a large range of baby food ingredients. They support the specific nutritional needs of children in the age groups of six months to three years, beginning with the introduction of solid foods into the diet. Fruit product streams include banana, apple and strawberry. Vegetable streams include carrot, tomato and spinach.

Symrise Diana Food production sites carry the FSC 22000 certificate. This enables the company to provide ingredients that meet the health and safety standards this category demands: minimum levels of contaminants, low microbiology levels and low levels of chemical contaminants and foreign bodies.

With proximity to farmers and producers, Symrise Diana Food agronomists are fully involved in the cultivation cycle, guaranteeing traceability, transparency and sustainability of agricultural practices.

Aurélie Pellé, global fruit product line director at Symrise Diana Food, “Consumers are looking for products for their babies that come as close as possible to homemade. They want baby foods with natural, clean and simple ingredients processed in the most gentle way. For this reason, agronomy plays such an important role in the category. Growing the best, most nutritious fruits and vegetables allows minimal processing and an end product that stays true to itself.”

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