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Oriental soybean foods (tofu, tempeh, etc.), animal feed
applications, quality control, animal feed applications,
overview of the soybean industry, economics and marketing
of soy products. Cost and travel information (the course costs
$4,300 plus about $1,600 for room, board, and other local
living expenses. INTSOY is unable to offer scholarships).
The course time consists of 35% lectures, 45% handson
exercises, and 20% industry visits. This is the 18th
offering of the training program. Some 200 persons from
41 countries have attended the course. Danny Erickson
is the training offi cer in charge. E-mail intsoy@uiuc.edu.
Address: International Soybean Program, Univ. of Illinois,
35 Environmental and Agricultural Sciences Building, 1101
West Peabody Drive, Urbana, Illinois 61801. Phone: (217)
333-6422.
1148. Fischer, Bruno. 1998. Update on Triballat, maker of
soymilk and soy yogurt in France (Interview). SoyaScan
Notes. March 3. Conducted by William Shurtleff of Soyfoods
Center.
• Summary: Triballat makes the best soymilk that Bruno
has ever tasted. “It’s incredible.” Their soy yogurt, which is
fermented, is also quite good; it is bland, but expensive and
not organic. Triballat is a well-managed family-run business,
now in its fourth generation; the company is growing
steadily. Their soymilk is sold in multi-weight glass bottles,
which are UHT packaged. Bruno sells a soymilk made by
Triballat, which he launched about 5 years ago. He buys the
fi nished soymilk from them for US$0.40/liter, and the total
cost packaged and labeled is near $0.70/liter. Presently 1.80
German marks = 1 U.S. dollar. He is their biggest customer.
He has an agreement with Triballat that they sell the soymilk
for bottling into glass exclusively to Bruno Fischer. And they
have an unwritten gentleman’s agreement that they don’t sell
to other German companies.
Triballat wants to sell its soymilk technology outside of
Europe. About one year ago they sold a complete soymilk
and soy yogurt system to some company in China–Bruno
thinks it was probably in Shanghai. This is the only system
they have sold, but they are now negotiating for the sale of a
second system somewhere.
1998. April 7. He has located and contacted the plant
Triballat sold to China, but they are not interested in selling.
Address: Im Auel 88, 53783 Aetorf, Germany. Phone: 49-
2243-4021.
1149. Mio, Art. 1998. Health Source: A new line of soy
protein products from Protein Technologies International
being test-marketed in the Los Angeles area (Interview).
SoyaScan Notes. March 3. Conducted by William Shurtleff
of Soyfoods Center.
• Summary: Michael Derrington and Barry Dunn visited
Morinaga in mid-February and presented their new line of
Health Source consumer products and the ad campaign and
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media schedule (local radio, newspapers, and magazines for
60 days) that will be used to launch them. Some of the ads
have been paid for by the Iowa Soybean Board. They are
fi rst test marketing the whole concept in Los Angeles. The
two basic products in the line are a soy protein drink sold in
a 1 quart gable-top cartons and a yogurt sold in a 6-ounce
yogurt-style cup. Each of these products comes in two types:
Regular (which provides 10 of soy protein per serving) and
Health Source Plus (which provides 20 gm of soy protein per
serving). They will be sold only in supermarkets and grocery
store chains–not in natural- or health food stores. The milk is
sold next to the Lactaid and Mocha Mix in the non-dairy part
of the dairy case, and the yogurt is sold next to the regular
dairy yogurts. Michael Derrington, who is managing director
of consumer product sales, is the main person in charge of
these products (Phone: 314-982-5414; Fax 314-982-3627).
Talk with Barry Dunn of PTI in Fullerton, California.
1998. March 4. These products fi rst arrived on the shelves
of stores in Los Angeles in late January of this year. The
fi rst ads broke in late February. Michael Derrington at the
Nutritious Foods division of PTI is in charge of the whole
program. Address: National Sales Manager, Morinaga
Nutritional Foods, Inc., 2050 W. 190th St., Suite 110,
Torrance, California 90504. Phone: 1-800-669-8638.
1150. Derrington, Michael. 1998. Health Source–A new line
of soy protein products from Nutritious Foods, Inc., a wholly
owned subsidiary of Protein Technologies International,
Inc. (Interview). SoyaScan Notes. March 6. Conducted by
William Shurtleff of Soyfoods Center.
• Summary: The plans of Health Source, so far as we can
tell, never got past the planning stage.
1151. Product Name: Silk: Dairyless Soy (Cultured
Dessert) [Apricot-Mango, Banana-Strawberry, Blueberry,
Key Lime, Lemon, Lemon-Kiwi, Peach, Plain, Raspberry,
Strawberry, Vanilla].
Manufacturer’s Name: White Wave, Inc.
Manufacturer’s Address: 6123 E. Arapahoe Rd., Boulder,
CO 80303. Phone: 303-443-3470.
Date of Introduction: 1998. March.
Ingredients: Lemon Kiwi: Cultured soymilk (water,
soybeans grown without the use of synthetic pesticides,
herbicides, or chemical fertilizers), kiwi puree, organic agave
syrup, unmodifi ed tapioca starch, calcium lactate (from
beets), lemon concentrate, lactic acid (from corn), pectin,
vanilla, natural color, natural fruit fl avors, lemon oil.
Wt/Vol., Packaging, Price: 6 oz (171 gm) plastic cup
with peel-off foil lid. Retails for $1.49 (1998/06, Lafayette,
California).
How Stored: Refrigerated.
New Product–Documentation: Talk with Steve Demos,
president of White Wave. 1998. March 24. This product
was introduced in early March. It is the fi rst product line