FI Europe is recognised as the world’s best platform for making and maintaining contacts in the food ingredients industry. This year FIE will be held in Paris on 29th November to 1st December. For years also organic ingredients have been presented at FIE at the special Organic Pavilion where also organic potato starch from Aloja [...]

(Press Release)
In the past years the availability of organic potato starch has been insufficient on the European market. This has created a bottleneck for some processed organic products where potato starch would be the natural choice ingredient. Now Aloja Starkelsen Ltd in Latvia – a subsidiary of Swedish Culinar Ltd – and Finnish Finnamyl Ltd [...]

The story about Linkosuo Rye Crisps is a story about Rye, how traditional Finnish bread adapted to modern times and the history of the family owned Linkosuo bakery company.
Organic rye in Karjalohja, Finland
Traditional Rye Sour Bread drying on a pole at Peltolan Organic Farm in Vilppula, Finland.
Rye of course is the healthiest grain used for [...]

The new Organic Food Finland website is now online. I built it with WordPress and Suffusion theme. Our blog is integrated with the site. Separate English and Finnish pages. Please have a look and you are free to comment. And come back because we are still adding content…
(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs [...]

Finland definitely is not a leading country in terms of organic market development. On the contrary, with just over 1% marketshare Finland is one of the least developed organic markets in Western Europe (but 7,2% of the field area is organic). Why is that? There is no one clear explanation but until now the Finnish [...]

PRESS RELEASE
31 January 2011
Pure and clean organic food from Finland will be presented at the BioFach organic trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany on 16–19 February 2011. Finnish companies have joined forces with companies from other Nordic countries to exhibit their products at a joint pavilion.
Finland is known for its clean natural environment and ecological know-how. [...]

We have used our “Christmas card budget” to
buy 1000 m2 of Finnish primeval old-growth
forest through the Finnish Natural Heritage
Foundation. This forest will be put under
conservation. For more information visit
Luonnonperintösäätiö.
(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=101005503333907″;
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, [...]

The article has been published in the “Lipids and Health” publication. You can download the report “Effects of dietary cold-pressed turnip rapeseed oil and butter on serum lipids, oxidized LDL and arterial elasticity in men with metabolic syndrome” at
http://www.lipidworld.com/content/pdf/1476-511x-9-137.pdf

The rapeseed oil used in the study was Virgino cold pressed oil.
(function(d, s, id) {
[...]