Angel Yeast Commits to Promote Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture
Angel Yeast, a leading yeast manufacturer, has announced it aims to play a larger role in increasing people’s access to nutritious food, and making food systems more inclusive and sustainable.
“Factors such as the ongoing pandemic, climate change, rising food prices and international tensions have been affecting global food security,” says the company. “Therefore, it is critical that all parties, from governments to private businesses, take necessary actions to deal with and combat the situation.”
Angel Yeast has laid out its own action plan with a focus on yeast and food ingredients supply, expansion of yeast protein production and sustainable agriculture. As the world’s second largest supplier of yeast products, Angel Yeast has 12 factories in China, Egypt and Russia, with two new additions built in 2022 in the Xiaoting district of Yichang, a city in Hubei, and Pu’er city in Yunnan. Collectively, the manufacturing capacity of these factories reaches around 350,000 tons, selling to over 150 countries and regions. Besides, Angel Yeast creates products that can improve flavors and nutrition, such as its bread improvers, products that improve the quality of the bread in several ways, including extending the bread’s shelf life to reduce food waste.
One endeavor that Angel Yeast is pursuing in this area is through the use of microbial yeast protein technology. It can be used to produce a wide range of food products. Compared to the production of animal proteins, yeast protein production manufacturing consumes less resources, such as land and water, and has a smaller greenhouse gas (GHG) emission.
In addition to developing healthy food products, Angel Yeast has also committed itself to sustainability in agriculture and livestock raising. The company is one of the world’s leading suppliers of organic yeast fertilizers. Its fertilizer product line, Fubon, has to date provided nearly 1.4 million ton of organic fertilizers, covering fields and lands of some 11,300 sq m.