Danone-backed Forager Project launches line of plant-based cheeses fooddive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fooddive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Share this article
SAN FRANCISCO, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Forager Project®, a family-owned and operated plant-based food company, has launched a line of organic, plant-based cheeses. The dairy-free cheeses are uniquely crafted to perform and taste like dairy cheese using the company s probiotic cashewmilk yogurt as the base. This line of organic, dairy-free cheeses is unique in the category for many reasons:
Forager Project CHEESEWORKS
Melt & Stretch. It s the cheesiest vegan cheese with the best melt and stretch and amazing taste and texture just like dairy cheese.
Simple Ingredients. The focus is on creating the highest quality cheeses with the fewest ingredients possible and NO modified food starches.
Forager Project has entered the burgeoning plant-based cheese category with a new line of organic products made from a base of cashews, starch, and coconut cream and oil, which it claims delivers the “cheesiest vegan cheese with the best melt and stretch.”
The
cheeses (SRP $5.99) will be available at retailers including Fresh Thyme, Sprouts, Central Markets, and Stop & Shop in the spring, said co-founder and CEO Stephen Williamson, who launched the first
Forager Project products (HPP veg-forward cold-pressed juices), in January 2013, and has since branched out into nut milks, smoothies, cashew-based yogurts, and ‘pressed vegetable’ chips made with pulp left over from juice pressing.
Forager Just Became the First Dairy-Free Brand to Launch Vegan Queso Fresco vegnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vegnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
French dairy giant Danone collected another plant-based pioneer last week with the acquisition of Follow Your Heart. Danone obtained the plant-based brand through a share purchase agreement where the company purchased 100% of the shares of Earth Island, the parent company of Follow Your Heart. This transaction follows a greater trend for the dairy company, which has spent the last two decades enhancing its plant-based profile with companies like Silk and So Delicious.
Dairy Company Acquires Vegan Brand Follow Your Heart
Follow Your Heart is known for its early push during the plant-based movement, starting in 1970 as a vegan lunch counter in Los Angeles. Since then, the company has launched a slew of important plant-based alternatives such as Vegenaise (vegan mayonnaise) and a number of dairy-free cheeses. Follow Your Heart also launched a selection of plant-based salad dressings and a VeganEgg. The brand’s growth significantly rose over the last decade, and in 2019, Chief Opera