Food & Ingredients International October 2022

Polenkoy expands its product range
with healthy product options
Continuing its R&D studies, the brand aims to add different
product groups to its portfolio in the coming years.
Turkey-based famous food brand Polenkoy
brings sustainable and innovative products to
consumers in the international market. Keeping
every stage of production under control, the
company takes place on the shelves with its
wide product range such as honey, molasses,
tahini halvah, jam, olives and olive oil.
The brand has increased its production
of tahini halva at the same rate as the
world’s best sesame seeds are produced
in Turkey. Polenkoy produces additive-free
tahini halvah, which is frequently preferred
especially in the Middle East. Aiming to
combine all products under a single brand
in recent years, when preferences have
changed and shaped from region to region,
Polenkoy also provides services in this area
where there are few honey producers.
Additive-free honey is mostly preferred by
America and Canada
When the competition in the honey sector
has gained such momentum, the brand
offers honey that is at its original form,
without added sugar and any additives.
In general, it has been determined that
honeys have different aroma, taste, color,
density and crystallization according to
different plant sources from which they are
collected. In terms of nutritional value, honey
is one of the consumer items that recover
blood values the fastest. Researchers,
who stated that honey should be the new
choice instead of sweet consumption due
to increasing health problems, think that
honey without additives is the product that
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