Grounded Foods creates plant-based cheese alternatives and does so without using any nuts, soy or undesirable additives—which makes its products not just dairy-free but also allergy-friendly. While the brand's Marinated Hemp Seed Feta boasts a hemp seed base, the Camembert-Style Cheese and the semi-firm Gruyere-Style Cheese are both made with cauliflower.
According to Grounded Foods, "We make plant-based cheeses that look, taste and feel so much like the real thing, that most people can’t tell the difference. We use manufacturing byproducts to create an environmentally resilient alternative to dairy."
Soon, the company's plant-based cheese alternatives will be introduced to a handful of high-end restaurants in New York City.
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Why This Trend Is Growing
- Cauliflower-based Cheese Alternatives
- Grounded Foods is showing a trend toward the use of cauliflower in plant-based cheese manufacturing as a dairy and allergy-free option.
- Allergy-friendly Plant-based Foods
- The trend of creating allergy-friendly plant-based foods like Grounded Foods' products are increasing, with development of more plant options for dairy alternatives.
- Eco-friendly Manufacturing
- Grounded Foods uses manufacturing byproducts to create its cheese alternatives, demonstrating a trend of eco-friendly manufacturing methods in the food industry.
Industries Being Reshaped
- Plant-based Food
- Grounded Foods’ cauliflower-based cheese alternatives represent a disruption in the plant-based food industry as it creates a new category for dairy and allergen-free cheese alternatives.
- Allergy-awareness
- The development of Grounded Foods' plant-based cheese alternatives represents an opportunity for the allergy-awareness industry to provide more dairy and allergen-free options.
- Sustainable Manufacturing
- The use of eco-friendly byproducts in Grounded Foods' plant-based cheese manufacturing represents an opportunity for the sustainable manufacturing industry to develop new products with similar methods.
