tacufin
THE A COMPANY
for Upcycled Food and Ingredient Innovations
THE A COMPANY
for Upcycled Food and Ingredient Innovations
TACUFIN is an internationally operating organisation under the TAC umbrella, dedicated to creating upcycled food, natural functional foods and ingredient innovations using African know-how, combined with modern processing techniques or raw materials of African origin.
The foods we love are often associated with ugly realities. This is particularly true of cocoa, coffee and cashews-based products. What do these commodities have in common? They are commodities, mostly grown in Africa, whose well-known ingredients are very popular with consumers. However, these commodities are only partially exploited in the modern manufacturing industry, despite the high potential of the raw materials as a whole or their by-products (known as waste) for people and nature. This problem can be formulated as follows:
About 70% of the cocoa, coffee and cashew fruit is considered waste, despite their nutritional and sensory properties.
Commodity prices are rising sharply. For example, the cost of cocoa beans is rising to the point where chocolate could be more expensive than caviar.
Consumers are increasingly demanding healthy food because they are faced with challenges of a busy working life, heart disease and obesity, to name but a few.
Despite the high demand for raw materials, farmers remain poor. For example, the income of a cocoa farming family in 2020/2021 was USD 4,937.
TACUFIN is working to transform the food production in a sustainable way and create greater transparency for safe consumption. TACUFIN combines traditional African knowledge with modern processing technologies to implement innovative up-cycling processes, while creating new, healthy, natural ingredients and consumer products, free from all forms of waste and exploitation of our brave farmers and enabling transparency. All this takes place within the framework of AFOODS® Group, AFOODS® Ingredients and AFOODS® Tech.
In this context, everything has value and there is no waste. Vegetable waste is processed to make it suitable for human consumption, and any parts of the raw materials that are inedible for food safety reasons are converted into non-food products. At the same time, consumers can enjoy our products with complete confidence, thanks to the full traceability of the used raw materials in terms of better treatment of farmers and environmental issues. In this way, we are able to deproblematise the food we enjoy so much in a sustainable way.
AFOODS® Group consists of consumer brands with a beverage and convenience food portfolio of subsidiary brands including cobu copu, pulpaco and more. The AFOODS® Group product portfolio includes a wide range of healthy and tasty foods and beverages.
AFOODS® Ingredients offers you unique ingredients for beverages, food, supplements, and other creative products that help you standing out on the shelf and among customers.
AFOODS® Tech is the technological platform for entering the world of AFOODS®. It enables traceability and authentication, offering consumers transparency and security in their consumption behavior. And for wholesalers, it is a digital catalogue that provides you with food trends that combine traditional African know-how with modern processing.
With AFOODS® we therefore achieve the following:
Reduction of cocoa and coffee processing waste by an average of 70% and a reduction of tonnes of CO2 thanks to partial production in the countries of distribution, depending on the raw material.
Provision of new ingredients to replace expensive traditional ingredients or to add new flavors and nutritional value to innovations. Save up to 50% on raw material purchases.
Offer of 10 times healthier and more affordable products than traditional cocoa, coffee or cashew products.
Creation of new sources of income for farmers and an increase in their income by up to 50%, depending on the commodity.
Do you have any questions or would you like more information about our work or products?
Please use the email below. You can also use our contact form
contac[at]tacufin.com
