Customer Spotlight: 88 Acres
Good, healthy food should be enjoyed by all. It’s a simple principle, but food allergies can make that hard to execute. “Our goal when we started 88 Acres was really to bridge the gap between those who had food allergies and those who didn’t have food allergies,” said Nicole Ledoux, who co-founded the bar and […]
Getting “Schooled” on Sustainability
Sustainability…a big word we hear quite often these days with many holding little embrace of its real essence. I myself, having spent almost 40 years in Food & Ag, have struggled to land on meaningful platforms constructed on all three pillars of sustainability; people, planet and profits. From one company to the next, the social […]
HealthSense Farmer to Speak at IBIE 2019
Nathan Rea is a fourth-generation farmer in the Walla Walla Valley between Oregon and Washington. He is one of the first farmers in the United States to grow the IP wheat variety now called HealthSense High Fiber Wheat. At IBIE 2019, Nathan will sit down for an informal chat with Bay State Milling about life […]
Some Truth About Carbs
Jill Weisenberger, MS, RD, CDE is ranked as one of US News & World Report’s, 10 Dietitian’s You Need to Follow on Social Media, and a four-time book author. She has more than 20 years of experience as a registered dietitian-nutritionist (RDN) and is a certified diabetes educator (CDE) and certified health and wellness coach. The following is […]
Functionality and Applications of Sprouted Grains
Sneak Peek 3 – Sprouted Grains as a Food Ingredient This is the third blog in a series dedicated to providing a preview to a book chapter written by Vanessa Brovelli, Darrel Nelson and Sean Finnie from Bay State Milling’s Research and Development Team. The chapter will appear in the book Sprouted Grains: Nutritional Value, […]
Rice: A Journey from Planting to Rice Flour
Rice is one of the most important food staples on the planet, as it is currently responsible for feeding roughly half of humanity. The key to the overall supply and demand picture resides in most of the countries in Southeast Asia, where combined, represent the largest production and consumption points globally. The rest of the […]
Developing HealthSense Granola
Since it opened in 2011, the Rothwell GrainEssentials Center has seen a lot of projects. Most have been initiated by customers; sometimes they start with an idea, other times they are a fully fleshed out formulation. These customer projects always start at lab scale with the intention to move to a bigger production run. Recently, […]