Fancypants Baking Co. is introducing three kinds of cookies made with upcycled food ingredients to reduce food waste and they put a more sustainable spin on classic cookie flavors. The new line of cookies created to reduce food waste includes okara chocolate chip cookies, double chocolate cookies made with coffee cherries and vanilla oat cookies made with oat milk pulp. According to the Upcycled Food Association, all of these ingredients would have gone to waste if not given new life in these applications.
While okara flour is a by-product of soy milk production, coffee cherry comes from the process of harvesting coffee beans. There's also oat milk pulp, which comes from the process of making oat milk, and by working with these ingredients, Fancypants Baking Co. is doing what many commercial bakeries aren't yet familiar with.
What Makes This Trend Stand Out
- Upcycled Ingredients
- The use of upcycled ingredients in food products, such as Fancypants Baking Co.'s cookies, presents an opportunity for more sustainable and eco-friendly food production.
- Reducing Food Waste
- Creating products specifically designed to reduce food waste, like Fancypants Baking Co.'s upcycled ingredient cookies, addresses a growing concern in the food industry and presents opportunities for more innovative approaches.
- Alternative Flour Sources
- Using okara flour, a by-product of soy milk production, as an ingredient in cookies like Fancypants Baking Co. has done, presents an opportunity for more widespread use of alternative flour sources in baking and cooking.
Sectors Adopting This
- Food and Beverage
- The food and beverage industry has the opportunity to reduce waste and improve sustainability by incorporating upcycled ingredients in their products, as demonstrated by Fancypants Baking Co.'s use of okara flour, coffee cherry, and oat milk pulp in their cookies.
- Sustainability
- The sustainability industry can seize opportunities presented by products like Fancypants Baking Co.'s upcycled ingredient cookies to address concerns over food waste and promote eco-friendly practices.
- Alternative Flour Production
- The alternative flour production industry can provide innovative solutions for food waste reduction and upcycling by discovering new sources of flour, as demonstrated by the use of okara flour in Fancypants Baking Co.'s cookies.
