Base Blends

Base blends can include a variety of ingredients such as vitamins, trace minerals, salts, fruits, vegetables, amino acids, select protein meals, and specialty carbohydrates. Ingredients and inclusion levels vary depending on your needs. We can optimize nutrients with base blends for efficiency and convenience by utilizing our blending expertise and Ingredient Intelligence Insights®.

Why should you use base blends?

Putting your trust in Trouw Nutrition helps make your life easier. You can optimize your efficiency by combining all your ingredients into a base blend that centralizes logistics, transportation, procurement, and quality with fewer suppliers.

The inclusion of base blends can be flexible to fit your needs.

Examples of Ingredients that can be included in base blends:

Grains and Legumes	Fruits and Veggies	Functional	Protein Meals	Other
Chickpeas	Apples	Antioxidants	Black soldier fly larvae	Amino acids
Oat Products	Blueberries	Glucosamine	Chicken	Beet pulp
Pea Products	Butternut Squash	Inulin/scFOS	Duck	Miscanthus grass
Quinoa	Cranberries	Taurine	Fish Meals	Processing aids
Rice Products	Kale	Trace minerals	Pork	Palatants and Flavors
Tapioca Products	Sweet potato	Vitamins	Rabbit	Salts
Wheat Products	Tomatoes	Yeast	Turkey	Spices
And More!

The Trouw Nutrition ingredient catalog includes over 500 ingredients. New ingredients can be sourced upon customer request.

Base Blends Benefits:

Reduce hassle of procurement:
• Reduce number of purchase orders
• Reduce supplier contracts
• Transportation efficiency
• Increase buying power
• Save money on ingredient costs
Manufacturing efficiency:
• Inventory management and logistics
• Reduce number of small inclusion ingredients
• Free up bin space
• Ease of use
• Labor
• Gain warehouse space
Manage HSEQ programs:
• Worker health & safety
• Reduce audits
Additional benefits:
• New product development
• Protect intellectual property (IP) at co-manufactures
• Product uniformity across facilities and co-manufactures
• More flexibility

Base Blends have simplified our manufacturing so we can carry fewer ingredients

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*Other proteins and/or exotic proteins can be sourced

* Product availability is dependent on supplier availability

Ingredient Intelligence® is a trademark of Trouw Nutrition, a Nutreco company.