Beloved Dates

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Dates are becoming an increasing popular ingredient in innovative recipe creations and in the last 6 years (2010-1016) there has been an 10.3% average annual growth rate of date imports to the UK(Eurostat). In 2016, we also saw date imports to the UK rise to 21 000 tonnes and a 23.2% increase in product launches & relaunches containing dates as an ingredient (Innova Database). Discover the delicious character of dates that are a versatile ingredient, full of flavour and have numerous nutritional benefits. Dates are a great source of various vitamins and minerals. They are also a good source of energy, sugar, and fibre. Essential minerals such as calcium, iron, sodium, potassium, magnesium and zinc can be found in them. They also contain vitamins such as vitamin B, vitamin A and vitamin K. Products Our vast selection of date products can be used in a wide range of product categories including bakery, cereals, confectionery, meat products, sauces and seasoning across ambient, chilled and frozen.  Our Date Paste, is a smooth, soft, consistent quality, which maintains its texture throughout shelf life – with no addition of rice flour and offers ease of mixing into sauces, bars, cakes and biscuits, provides excellent colour and flavour. The soft texture throughout its life improves the quality of your finished product. Our date paste, which is also available in organic can be used in a variety of baked goods and cereals to replace sugar and offer “no added sugar” claims if no other sugar is included. It also offers functionality, such as a sticky toffee pudding, where the date paste provides structure, texture and flavour. Date Juice Concentrates come in 3 variations which are dark, golden and clear. They differ from a viscous dark nectar to a thin clear concentrate. Much like the date paste, the date juice concentrates offer reduced sugar options due to their sweetness and reduced sugar levels as less product can be used. They are great for adding colour, flavour, sweetness and binding across bakery and cereals categories. Our date juice concentrates can also be used in marinades as a sweet natural alternative to molasses or treacle. With all our date ingredients and the support of our technical team, we can maintain the quality of your finished product in terms of the delicious taste, texture, flavour and visual appeal, and can contribute to reducing or replacing refined sugars. What We Do Beloved provides technical development services, market insights, research and product innovation programmes by offering a range of natural date based ingredients from pastes to juice concentrates. Whilst also promoting clean labelling programmes, raw on pack claims with the inclusion of date ingredients as either a sugar replacer (no added sugar claims) or sugar reducer due to increased sweetness. Our experienced technical and development team, experts in global date sourcing, product applications and nutritional analysis will support your business by providing unparalleled access to our UK Knowledge Centre and nutritional papers from around the world. We can provide application and process support to help maximise the use of date products both for product reformulations and new product development. Our nutritional experts will guide you through the ingredient options available to maximise the nutritional benefits and clean label credentials of your product to deliver strategic visions. Global trends, category insights and competitive analysis will be deliver the context and framework to support the ingredients proposed. Our aim is to provide global expertise and technical solutions based on natural date products supported by a premium technical service that consistently delivers delicious and nutritious products.