Fresh, tasty & green

Getting Alpro Soya products fresh and tasty on your kitchen table is one thing, but can it also be done environment friendly? Alpro Soya proves you it can be. For the packaging of their beverage products they use Tetra Pak, which has the lowest carbon footprint of any rigid beverage packs. The reason for this result is the fact that Tetra Pak is made of environment friendly materials, without harmful substances being added during the production process. Another asset is that when you throw away the Tetra Pak, it can be recycled. Thanks to Tetra Pak everybody’s happy: customers, the company itself ánd mother nature.

Tim De Baets

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Alpro with respect for mother nature

Nature is for Alpro Soya a source for their beans, what means that they have to respect nature with a view to a long-term alliance, which they do. Alpro produces their soya in the most natural way possible, without any genetical modification. So is for example every soya bean produced on a non-deforested farm where the natural crap rotation is respected. To guarantee this, Alpro uses a traceability programme. Alpro’s ethical code makes sure that every step of the production process occurs on a correct way. At every level, the highest standards are reached and ensured by a number of controls. All this because of one objective: the healthiest product possible.

Nathan Braeckmans

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The beginning of each Alpro Soya product…

The base of each product made by Alpro soya are of course the soybeans! Soybeans are also named ‘the meat of the soil’, thanks to their richness of proteins and their nutritional benefits. The ones used by Alpro, are principally the “yellow beans”, because they contain proteins of the best quality. These plants grow in a hot and humid climate during a period of 100 to 200 days. They reach a height of 80 cm and have little white and purple flowers, whose pods are containing 1 to 4 soybeans. The company gets its soybeans supply from farms in China, the south of Brasil, Canada and Hungary . None of the beans come from land which was cleared from the Rainforest (like the Amazon), which is an important fact for the sustainable development policy of Alpro!

Magali Deryckere

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Alpro on the road

If you ever get stuck in a traffic jam, you can’t blame Alpro Soya. The packaging materials needed in their production process, arrive to them in reels that they then form into cartons and fill with Alpro Soya. With this method one truck can carry the packaging for about one million 1 litre cartons. If they preferred to use glass bottles, they would need 50 trucks to supply one million 1 litre glass bottles. Thanks to their wise decision, Alpro saves nearly 10,000 trucks on our roads every year! On top of that fewer trucks mean less carbon dioxide, so reduced global warming is another result of their effort.

Tim De Baets

source: www.alprosoya.com

What is soy milk?

Soy milk is a high protein, iron-rich milky beverage made from soy beans. It is produced by soaking dry soy beans and grinding them with water. White soy milk resembles cow's milk but in fact differs from it in a number of ways. Not only is it higher in proteins and iron, it is also cholesterol-free, low fat and low sodium. Natural soy milk, however, contains little calcium and must be enriched with calcium when replacing cow milk. Some people, who aren’t used to drinking soy milk, do not enjoy the taste of original soy milk, so Alpro soya offers flavoured soy drinks. Often added flavours are chocolate, vanilla or strawberry. Alpro soya’s products are therefore a healthy and delicious alternative.

Helena De Bruycker

Source: www.alprosoya.com