Big Tree Farms Revolutionizes The Better-for-You Sweetener Category
Big Tree Farms announced the launch of their new Vacuum Evaporated Coconut Nectar (VECN), bringing a new level of quality and consistency to the organic sweetener industry. Through innovative formulation, VECN takes the amazing health benefits and the unique warm flavor of traditional brown coconut sugar to the next level.
When compared to traditional coconut sugar, VECN has improved solubility, 30% lower moisture content and significantly reduced caramelization, creating a product with a wider scope of use in manufacturing, especially for the chocolate/confection, instant beverage/meal replacement and baking industries. Because of the incredibly low temperatures used in VECN processing, Big Tree’s new product provides a less caramelly, more neutral sweetness, that becomes a functional 1:1 replacement for cane sugar and a perfect addition to better-for-you snacks, desserts, baked goods, and beverages. Following Big Tree Farms other coconut nectar sweeteners, VECN is low glycemic, naturally gluten-free, and the world’s most sustainable replacement to cane sugar.
“As the global pioneers in organic coconut sweeteners we’ve worked with chefs and R&D teams in the Natural products industry to better understand the challenges our traditional brown coconut sugar poses for recipe development. And now with the launch of our VECN, we’re excited to be bringing to market the culmination of those learnings in a product that is ready to take on cane sugar as a true 1:1 replacement. Leading brands outpacing growth in Confection, Baking and Plant Based Foods, are turning towards and innovating with coconut sweeteners as a base for their products and our VECN is there to make this transition easier.”
And beyond the taste and functionality of coconut sweeteners there are also the amazing environmental benefits of this alternative to cane sugar. Coconuts are the world’s most sustainable source of sugar and in a world now facing the severe impacts of Climate Change, the transition from Cane sugar to Coconut sugar is not only smart from a “better-for-you” standpoint, but also from a “better-for-us” standpoint.
Coconuts can produce 1.5-2x the sugar as cane per acre and they do so while using 10x less water. Unlike Cane Sugar which is grown as a monocrop and causes severe soil erosion and soil fertility loss, Big Tree Farms’ Coconut Sugar is produced in diversified small farmer “food forests” where soil is protected from erosion and fertility is improved. Cane sugar production is also a major source of greenhouse gases as cane fields are burnt to aid in harvest. Coconut farms on the other hand become a carbon sink as trees are planted and managed for over 60 years in Indonesia before they are harvested for timber and replanted.
About Big Tree Farms
Big Tree Farms’ mission is to create good-for-you products that support a better-for-us world. Harvested by hand on the islands of Indonesia by our collective of organic farmers, Nira, the coconut flower nectar, is the magic inside all Big Tree Farms products. It’s low glycemic, unrefined and supports regenerative farming practices. Good for your family, the farmer, and the environment, that’s the power of Nira.
Today, through the support of their farmer partners, Big Tree Farms has grown into the world’s largest and most sustainable coconut supply chain and has remained committed to positively impacting the farmer communities, our health, and our planet.
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