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Owner | Groupe Danone |
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Country | United States |
Introduced | 1978 |
Markets | United States |
Website | http://silk.com/ |
Silk Tum hi ho audio song. is an American brand of dairy-substitute products (including soy milk, soy yogurt, almond milk, almond yogurt, Cashew milk, coconut milk, and other dairy-alternative products) owned by Danone North America (formerly WhiteWave Foods).
History[edit]
Carton of Silk Almond Milk
Silk was founded by Steve Demos in Boulder, Colorado in 1978. The first product was introduced in March 1996 by WhiteWave, Inc. at the Natural Foods Expo in Anaheim, California. In the years that followed, Silk became a successful, worldwide, organic brand.
In 2002 WhiteWave, Inc (parent of Silk Soymilk) was sold to Dean Foods for just under $300 million. The company's sales grew to $350 million in annual revenues by 2005. As the business grew, Silk became the largest purchaser of organic, Non GMO soybeans in North America.[citation needed] According to Silk's web site in August 2009, all its soy beans are sourced from North America including organic and non-GMO soybeans.[1]In January 2010, the company introduced Silk Pure Almond, an almond milk, and its first non-soy-based product.
In 2013, WhiteWave Foods separated from Dean Foods, and became an independent, publicly traded company.
Silk has been a five-year recipient of the Green Power Leadership Award from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency.[2][3][clarification needed] Silk has been a supporter of Farm Aid since 2002. Silk is a member of the Soyfoods Association of North America, (SANA) which provides information about the health benefits and nutritional advantages of soy consumption.
In July 2016 it was announced that the French company Danone would purchase WhiteWave Foods for $10.4 billion.[4] The acquisition was completed in April 2017 and newly formed company is named DanoneWave[5]
Controversy[edit]
In the fall of 2009 the Pioneer Press reported that the Cornucopia Institute had made complaints to the U.S. Department of Agriculture accusing Silk producer Dean Foods and its WhiteWave Foods division, of shifting their products away from organics without properly notifying retailers or consumers.[6][7] According to the Star Telegram and other news sources, Silk brand soy milk was made using organic soybeans switched to conventional soybeans while maintaining the same UPC barcodes and prices on the Silk products while replacing the word “organic” with “natural” on the Silk product packaging.[8]
Silk maintains that it sources only domestic/U.S. soy beans. The brand has also enrolled all of its products in the Non-GMO Project's verification process.[9]
List of products[edit]
As of August 2017:[10]
- Refrigerated soy milk: Vanilla, Original, Chocolate, Very Vanilla, DHA Omega-3, Organic Vanilla, Organic Unsweetened, Plain Plus Omega-3 DHA(discontinued 2013)
- Light soy milk: Original, Vanilla, Chocolate
- Shelf-stable soy milk: Original Aseptic, Vanilla Aseptic, Organic Unsweetened Aseptic, Starbucks Vanilla Aseptic (A special blend made for use and purchase in Starbucks' stores)
- Shelf-stable single-serve soy milk: Very Vanilla, Chocolate
- Specialty soy milk: Pumpkin Spice (seasonal), Nog (seasonal), Chocolate Mint (seasonal)
- Dairy-free yogurt alternative: Peach Almond, Strawberry Almond, Vanilla Almond, Dark Chocolate Coconut Almond, Plain Almond, Peach & Mango Soy, Blueberry Soy, Strawberry Soy, Vanilla Soy, Tropical Pineapple Soy, Plain Soy
- Creamer: Vanilla Soy, Original Soy, Hazelnut Soy, Vanilla Almond, Caramel Almond, Hazelnut Almond
- Almond milk: Vanilla, Original, Organic Original, Dark Chocolate, Unsweetened Vanilla, Unsweetened, Light Vanilla, Light Original
- Cashew milk: Original, Unsweetened, Unsweetened Vanilla, Chocolate
- Coconut milk: Vanilla, Original, Unsweetened
- Almond+Coconut Blend: Original Blend, Unsweetened Blend
- Protein nut milk: 2g Sugar, Vanilla, Chcolate
References[edit]
- ^'Soybean Sourcing and Production Program'(PDF). www.silk.com. Archived from the original(PDF) on January 1, 2010. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
- ^'Green Power Leadership Awards 2008 Winners'. United States Department of Energy. 2008-11-03. Retrieved 2008-11-08.
- ^'Silk Wins Wind Power Award'. Silk Website. Archived from the original on May 29, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-08.
- ^http://fortune.com/2016/07/13/danone-whitewave-acquisition-2/
- ^http://www.dairyreporter.com/Manufacturers/Danone-completes-acquisition-of-WhiteWave-to-create-DanoneWave
- ^Twin Cities.com Pioneer Press, 'Watchdog charges Target'
- ^Cornucopia Institute web site
- ^'Grocers Irked to Find Out Soy Milk Not Organic'. Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Retrieved 2010-04-19.[dead link]
- ^[1]
- ^'All Silk Products: Silk'. silk.com. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
External links[edit]
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silk_(brand)&oldid=890988923'
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After having seen a YouTube video on milk fibres, she found that the old process was too chemically laden for what she needed but that a more environmentally friendly process could produce a fibre so innocuous you could eat it.
It works 'like a big noodle machine,' according to Domaske. 'You add the protein powder – it looks like flour – to water and you mix it into a dough. Then there's a nozzle at the end with teeny tiny holes that put out textile fibres instead of noodles.'
'You can use any kind of milk but the safest, right now, is cow milk that's just turned sour.
'We need to have it sour to separate the protein. We get ours in powder form from dairies but we're revamping our collection system. '
The University of Berlin has found that Germans throw away around 2m tonnes of milk each year. Milk consists of more than 200 vitamins, minerals and proteins that can be processed and turned into resources. If the future of food waste is turning it into something useful, then Qmilk fills a gap in a market that might unwittingly turn a blind eye to sustainable options.
A reliance on sour milk might not seem scaleable but Domaske is adamant that current German dairy waste is enough to dress the whole US in a t-shirt.
It feels like silk and if the mildly erotic promo video on their site is anything to go by, you can stick a naked model in a milk bath and have her come out of it dressed in a flowing Athenian frock. One of its major advantages is it's antibacterial properties. Like silk, it's also temperature regulating, light, absorbent, compostable and flame resistant.
'We only need a maximum of two litres of water and an 80°C temperature [to make 1kg of textiles]. We have low waste and the process takes five minutes. Everything in the manufacture of Qmilk uses 100% natural and renewable resources,' Domaske stresses.
'We have a transparent production chain. The press is welcome to film it and we know where all our milk comes from. To be sustainable we understand that people want to look behind the scenes.'
'Our vision is to have a zero waste process that stretches right back to our resources … so who supplies us. What we do at the moment is turn our waste into powder which either goes back into our research or is delivered as a biological additive for the plastic industry.'
'I would like to build our collection system and spread the idea worldwide,' she says in a hurried exchange.
'Milk has over 200 ingredients which gets wasted when milk isn't sold. I'd like to use this as a resource.'
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