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We love bringing new concepts and fresh ideas to life. Explore our portfolio where we can offer ingredients that are good for consumers and good for farmers. From ready-to-mix beverages to dairy alternative drinks, we bring expertise across cocoa, coffee, dairy, nuts and spices.
Coffee
Wake up and smell the coffee. Thanks to our relationships with coffee farmers around the world, we can cater to a wide range of needs. Whether you're looking for large responsibly sourced volumes to niche coffee for the specialty market, we can help.
Ready-to-drink
Ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages are an important part of busy consumers’ daily routines around the world. Our ingredients can bring diverse flavor notes and creaminess while addressing common challenges like texture. Choose from our huge array of nut, dairy, cocoa and soluble coffee ingredients designed to suit regional tastes.
Ready-to-mix
Achieving the right flavor, ingredient stability and shelf life for ready-to-mix (RTM) beverages is no easy task. Tap into ofi’s expertise and we can help you cater to the precise needs of your market. How about blending soluble coffee or cocoa with nut powder and a vegan creamer for a tasty, foamy 3-in-1 powder mix?
Hot beverages
Smooth, flavorsome, satisfying. For a hot drink that does it all, look to our wide selection of ingredients, including soluble coffee, cocoa and spices. We offer consistent quality at scale for creating the best hot coffees, chocolates, lattes and spiced teas.
Cold beverages
Easy on the eye, refreshing on the tongue. Our innovation experts can help you create cold beverages with the perfect color and flavor. Savory nut beverages or iced tea produced from coffee cascara – you name it, we can make it.
Dairy alternative drinks
Plant-based beverages can be so much more than a dairy substitute – the buzz around innovation is reaching new highs. For example, our barista-grade nut beverages offer a well-rounded taste profile and are specially formulated for stability at high temperatures. For indulgence, look no further than our plant-based chocolate drinks.
Coffee, cocoa, dairy and nut ingredients are the foundation of the beverages category. Find out more about what we offer. From supporting sustainable sourcing to bringing out the best plant-based flavors, learn how ofi and our ingredients can make your next beverage innovation real.
Green coffees
Sourcing from a large network of farmers across 18 countries, the stories behind our coffee are not just about aroma, taste and quality, but also traceability, profitable farmers and biodiverse eco-systems.
Soluble coffees
Spray dried, agglomerated, freeze dried or frozen extract: we have it all. State-of-the-art processing facilities, strategically located in Spain and Vietnam, can offer the full product range. Our R&D team can help you tailor our high-quality soluble coffee to your needs.
Dairy ingredients
With our extensive range of dairy ingredients, we aim to become your preferred co-creation partner. We offer customized solutions for everything from flavored milk to drinkable yogurt and shakes. Choose from our milk powders and derivatives in a variety of compositions.
Cocoa powders
Fruity or bitter, vibrant red to dark brown and black, we never take cocoa powder for granted. The key to so many tasty drinks, make sure you have the right type to get exceptional results. How about premium single-origin cocoa that can offer elevated transparency and luxurious taste profiles?
Nut butters & pastes
Our wide portfolio of nut butters and pastes can create creamy beverages that bring a health halo and unique taste experiences to your consumers. Take your pick from almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, peanuts, pistachios, walnuts and macadamias.
Almond flour
Consumers are buzzing about plant-based premix beverages, but companies still struggle with balancing taste and texture. Our almond protein powder can be the answer, improving the creaminess of your lattes, smoothies and shakes while providing a mouthwatering flavor.
Cashew flour
Our cashew flours and powders are made from the finest quality nut. Gluten-free, nutrient-rich and with a neutral taste, this versatile ingredient can be the perfect base for rich and creamy plant-based drinks. Magic happens where our cashew powder meets cocoa – and that's just the start.
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Inspiration
Our ingredients portfolio offers near endless possibilities to keep up with changing consumer preferences for nutritious and delicious options across categories. Learn more about some of our most recent applications in the beverage sector.
A cup of single-origin coffee
High altitudes and its proximity to the equator make Zambia one of the best coffee growing regions in the world. Our Zambian estate puts a decade of experience into every bean. True connoisseurs can enjoy our 48-hour fermented coffee, offering an especially rich and complex flavor profile.
Dairy-free coffee beverages
Enjoy a delicious, creamy cup of coffee with our foaming nut-based beverage. By carefully combining cashews and almonds, we can offer soft clouds of long-lasting foam – the perfect crown for a tasty brew.
Golden turmeric milk
Golden milk has long been used in India as a comforting home remedy. It’s traditionally made with turmeric and other spices, such as cinnamon and ginger, or used to create lattes. Consider a twist with our indulgent almond and cashew beverages.
Plant-based chocolate milk
With our almond, cashew & hazelnut blend, chocolate milk can be a treat that’s both nutritious and delicious. Unlock the possibilities of an indulgent and plant-based chocolate drink that can taste just as sweet as dairy, but with less sugar.
A cup of single-origin coffee
Dairy-free coffee beverages
Golden turmeric milk
Plant-based chocolate milk
Sustainability
Our approach to sustainability is guided by our Purpose ‘To be the change for good food and a healthy future’. It is rooted in our belief that healthy, natural food is possible when people working in the food systems prosper and contribute to the restoration of the living world.
As the ones on the ground, in the heart of farming communities, we are well positioned to drive positive environmental and social change in communities and landscapes. And to accelerate and deliver change at scale, we are part of many multi-stakeholder partnerships. When we combine this impact with the application innovations of our chefs, we can offer sustainable choices to our customers and together, help feed the growing appetite for naturally good food.
Coffee LENS
We've set challenging goals to tackle the key issues facing the coffee supply chain by 2025, enabled through structured collaboration with partners. We have achieved a number of 2021 milestones, all of which contribute to our longer-term goals.
Cocoa Compass
We've set concrete goals to work together with customers and partners to tackle the key issues facing the cocoa supply chain by 2030, with milestones for action in 2020 and 2024. Our progress is tracked, and the results are transparently published in our annual Cocoa Compass reports.
Almond Trail
Believe it or “nut,” almonds can only grow in a handful of places with ideal growing conditions. We address sustainability challenges facing the supply chain by setting out targets for water stewardship, carbon reduction and support for ecosystems.
Cashew Trail
Each nut story starts with hard-working farmers and processing workers. Cashew Trail sets 2030 targets to tackle poverty and create economic opportunity. Let's improve the livelihoods of people in the cashew communities and grow farmer yields.
Hazelnut Trail
Our vision: creating a collaborative trail to sustainable hazelnuts by addressing the most pressing issues facing hazelnut farmers, their communities and migrant workers. Our goals build on the progress we’ve made over the last decade with our partners.
Read ofi news
The colorful ingredients taking over our plates in 2023
The trend for bold colors and flavors in food and beverages is rising this year. With consumers increasingly exposed to an array of global food trends, including a wide range of exotic flavors and colors, many are becoming more experimental. At the same time, confectionery products, treats, and snacks are often a moment of fun and relaxation in consumers’ daily lives, so they can be a great opportunity for experimenting with new and exciting shades.
Employee Spotlight: Sydney Valla, eCommerce Operations Manager, North America
Sydney Valla was an undergrad at Fresno State when she first discovered ofi (olam food ingredients) at a career fair. They were passing out tomato-shaped stress balls and recruiting new grads for a management trainee program. She signed-up for an interview and the rest is her-story.
What motivates you when you wake up and come into work?
My team! There are six of us who are 100% dedicated to the Spices eCommerce business and we have a combined 35+ years’ experience at ofi. Together, we work to be a solution provider for new and existing customers, put in place processes to help the business grow and overcome any challenges that are thrown our way.
Anything you’d like to add to help others succeed?
Being in numerous different positions throughout my career (supply chain, product line, sales) has made me a more well-rounded employee and allowed me to view problems from many different angles to find better solutions. I’m glad that I joined a company that offered career growth and expansion. Being a sponge during the early stages of my career allowed me to soak up lots of different information.
What has been your favorite moment at ofi so far?
When I was a product line manager, there was a large fast-food chain that featured one of our ingredients in a delicious and highly promoted LTO. It was so cool to go through the drive thru, pick up lunch, and know that one of the products that I helped to sell was in an item that was being sold across the country.
Our company purpose is ‘be the change for good food and a healthy future.’ In what way do you live our purpose through your work?
Through the eCommerce offerings, we can connect with new customers and segments that have previously been difficult to reach. This allows us to work with new customers to make educated purchasing decisions about where their product comes from, our sustainability offerings, and more. Outside of work, I sit on the Board of Directors for the Central California Food Bank which feeds over 300,000 community members in the Central Valley.
Editor’s Note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Growing for the Future: Safeguarding coffee and cocoa from the climate crisis
Imagine waking up to a world without your morning cup of coffee or being able to enjoy your favorite chocolate. Unthinkable, right? But climate change threatens the livelihoods of millions of small-scale farmers who grow these everyday ingredients.
That's where HEARTH (Health, Ecosystems, and Agriculture for Resilient, Thriving Societies) comes in. It is a collaborative public-private partnership approach to sustainable development in biodiverse landscapes initiated by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Together, USAID, olam food ingredients (ofi), and partners have invested approximately $50 million across six cocoa and coffee projects worldwide, including four HEARTH partnerships. We aim to equip farmers with the right tools and training to transition to more environmentally friendly techniques without sacrificing their livelihoods. There are three key ingredients at the core of HEARTH’s approach to climate action:
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