DO INDUSTRIALIZED FOOD HAVE HAVE LITTLE FOOD IN NATURA?

In 2019, Ital and ABIMAPI conducted a study about nutrients and ingredients of 70 products marketed in Brazil, obtained the following results. The industrialized loaves of bread, generally, are mostly composed of common food raw materials used to make bread, and are mostly available to the consumer in the retail segment:

• Wheat flour and other rye, corn, oat, soybean, buckwheat, durum wheat, etc.
• Drinking water
• Biological, chemical, or natural yeast
• Kitchen salt
• Sugar: sucrose, corn glucose or fructose
• Oils and fats: plant-based oils, margarine, butter, lard, etc.
• Rye, corn, oat, soybean, buckwheat, durum grains, etc.
• Nuts, almonds, Brazil nut, cashew nut, hazelnut, macadamia, peanuts, pistachio. etc.
• Fresh, dried, glazed, canned fruit, purees, jellies, etc.
• Pasteurized chicken egg, in natura, or hydrolyzed
• Liquid cow milk, pasteurized or UHT, powdered.
• Other ingredients, such as vinegar, grated coconut, cinnamon powder, fennel and pumpkin.

In 2020, Ital and ABIMAPI conducted a study about nutrients and ingredients of 243 products marketed in Brazil, obtaining the following results. The industrialized cookies, generally, are mostly composed of common food raw materials used to make home-made cookies, at bakeries and confectionery, and are mostly available to the consumer in the retail segment:

• Wheat flour and other rice flours, oat, rye, barley, corn, soybean, breadcrumbs, white etc.
• Rice, maze, wheat, manioc starch (potato starch) etc.
• Drinking water
• Biological and chemical yeast
• Kitchen salt
• Sugar: sucrose, brown sugar, demerara sugar, molasses, corn glucose or glucose syrup, honey
• Oils and fats: plant-based oils (sunflower, sesame, palm, soybean, palm), olive oil, butter, margarine, animal fat, etc.
• Grains: rye, barley, corn, oat, rice, wheat, etc.
• Seeds: chia, linseed, quinoa, black sesame, white sesame, sunflower, etc.
• Nuts, chestnuts, and leguminous plants: nuts, almonds, Brazil nut, cashew nut, peanut, etc.
• Fruits and by-products: dried fruit (raisins, powdered peach, dehydrated raspberry, apple flakes, dried banana, coconut etc.), guava, pulps (guava, strawberry), strawberry preparation (juice, flakes, etc.)
• Seasonings: celery, onion, clove powder, cinnamon powder, clove, nutmeg, low-sodium salt-based seasoning, ham flavor seasoning, ham and cheese flavor seasoning
• Chicken egg: whole powdered, powdered egg white
• Cow milk: powdered, whole, skimmed and semi-skimmed, pasteurized or UHT
• Extracts: malt, rosemary
• Cocoa by-products: cocoa liquor, cocoa powder, milk chocolate, semi sweet chocolate

In 2021, Ital and ABIMAPI conducted a study about nutrients and ingredients o 210 products marketed in Brazil, obtaining the following results. The industrialized cakes, generally, are mostly composed of common food raw materials used to make home-made cakes, at bakeries and confectionery, and are mostly available to the consumer in the retail segment:

• Wheat flour and other rice, rye, whole barley, golden linseed, licuri, corn, babaçu mesocarp, whole oat, soybean, almonds and cashew nut.
• Wheat gluten
• Maize starch
• Cereals and seeds: wheat, rye, linseed, oat, sunflower, sesame, soybean, quinoa, chia, barley and sesame
• Fruits and by-products: grated coconut, coconut milk, raisin, banana candy, creamy guava candy, apricot, sugar-free crystallized fruit, banana puree, orange (juice, pulp, and flakes)
• Cocoa and by-products: cocoa, alkaline cocoa, cocoa powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, cocoa liquor, chocolate powder, milk chocolate, semi sweet chocolate and semi sweet chocolate flavor stripes, chocolate nibs, granulated, and confectionery
• Oilseed and other vegetables: hazelnut, nuts, almonds, Brazil nut and cashew nut. Other vegetables were: cinnamon, chia in grains, soybeans and carrot extract (powder, dehydrated and concentrated juice).
• Milk and by-products: powdered milk milk jam, powdered condensed milk, natural yogurt, butter and cream cheese
• Eggs: pasteurized whole chicken egg and in the form of powder (conventional or organic), pasteurized or powdered egg white and pasteurized or powdered egg yolk
• Oils, fats, and margarine: soybean oil, canola, palm, sunflower, coconut, corn, orange, hydrogenated plant-based oil, margarine, and palm oil fat
• Sugar: sugar (sucrose), brown sugar, demerara sugar, molasses, corn glucose or glucose syrup, honey
• Kitchen salt
• Chemical and natural yeast
• Cereal alcohol and white wine vinegar
• Toppings or syrups
• Fillings: chocolate, brigadeiro, strawberry, vanilla, guava, zero-sugar guava jam, milk jam, orange and hazelnut cream with cocoa.

In 2021, Ital and ABIMAPI conducted a study about nutrients and ingredients of 269 products marketed in Brazil, obtaining the following results. The industrialized doughs, generally, are mostly composed of common food raw materials used to make home-made crusts, at bakeries and confectionery, and are mostly available to the consumer in the retail segment:

• Flours: wheat flour or bran: white, whole, organic whole, soft or tender wheat,“durum”, whole “durum”, grits, semolina, buckwheat or Moorish
• Other flours: rice flour, whole rice, rye, breadcrumbs, barley, chia, golden linseed, amaranth, quinoa, whole, corn pre-gelatinized
• Starch: maze, potato starch, manioc starch
• Rice, potato, manioc, parsnip, organic banana biomass and pumpkin
• Oils and fats: soybean, palm, sunflower, margarine, plant-based cream, duck fat, chicken fat
• Sugar: sucrose, glucose, lactose
• Egg and egg white: whole chicken egg and pasteurized or dehydrated egg white
• Drinking water
• Milk and by products: whole and skimmed milk, powdered milk, butter, buttermilk, sodium caseinate, (sour cream), milk cream
• Salt: kitchen, light, hypo-sodium salt
• Vegetables: tomato, spinach, red turnip, green pepper, garlic, garlic powder, celery, onion, green onion, carrot, cabbage, milk cream and cocoa powder
• Spices, aromatic herbs and extracts: saffron, parsley, cinnamon, rosemary, oregano, yeast extract, tomato extract, rosemary extract, Italian mustard, sage, black pepper, white pepper, paprika, ginger and nutmeg, red pepper, black pepper, food coloring, cumin, bay, shoyu and yeast extract
• Biological yeast
• Cereal alcohol

In 2020, Ital and ABIA conducted a study about nutrients and ingredients of 56 products marketed in Brazil, obtaining the following results. The industrialized pizzas are mostly composed of common food raw materials used to make pizzas in other places, are mostly available to the consumer in the retail segment. The main ingredients that form the industrialized pizzas base are:

• Flour and wheat flour: white wheat, whole wheat, wheat bran
• Other flours: linseed
• Cheese: Mozzarella, lactose-free mozzarella, buffalo mozzarella, lactose-free buffalo mozzarella, Parmesan cheese, cheese processed with Gorgonzola, provolone cheese, Gorgonzola cheese, cream cheese, lactose-free cream cheese, cheddar cheese and vegan cheese
• Meat and by-products: chicken, smoked sausage, cooked and smoked pork loin, Canadian-type loin, sliced pepperoni and cooked ham
• Tomato and by-products: tomato, conventional or organic, used as dressing, extract, pulp, juice, and in natura, with peel or peeled
• Other plant-based products: olives, onion, red onion, broccolis, pea, pepper, corn and mushroom
• Spices and seasonings: garlic, basil, coriander, black pepper, parsley, seasoning preparation kitchen flavor and spices
• Oils and e margarine: soybean oil, palm oil, olive oil, margarine
• Creams: milk cream, garlic cream, and cream cheese
• Dressings: dressing with Catupiry cheese, Gorgonzola cheese dressing and chicken dressing
• Water: drinking water
• Egg: whole chicken egg and egg yolk
• Sugar: common sugar (sucrose), glucose
• Salt: kitchen, light salt
• Biological yeast
• Starch: rice, maze, manioc, potato starch
• Modified starch
• Powdered milk

In 2020, Ital and Viva Lácteos conducted a study about nutrients and ingredients of 150 products marketed in Brazil, obtained the following results. The industrialized yogurts are mainly composed of common food raw materials used to make yogurts in other places, mostly available to the consumer in the retail segment. Generally, MILK is the main ingredient, and should be composed at least of 70% of milk base. The other ingredients, including those used in preparations and syrups, can not exceed 30%, according to the legislation in force.

Normative Instruction no. 46, of October 23rd, 2007, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, established which ingredients shall be mandatory (Milk and/or reconstructed milk standardized in its fat content; culture of specific lactic bacteria) and the optionals (Milk concentrate, cream, butter, anhydrous milk fat or butter oil, powdered milk, food caseinates, milky protein, other solid of milk origin, wheys, whey concentrates; Fruits in pieces, pulp(s), juice(s) and other fruit-base preparations; Maltodextrins; Other food substances, such as: honey, coconut, cereals, vegetables, dried fruits, chocolate, spices, coffee, others, alone or combined; Sugar and/or glycides (except polyalcohols and polysaccharides); Culture of subsidiary lactic bacteria; Starch or modified starch in a maximum portion of 1% (m/m) of the final product) in the composition of yogurt.

• Milk: whole, semi-skimmed or skimmed cow milk, milk form other animals (sheep, goat, etc.)
• Milk yeasts: freeze-dried, thermophilic, milk bacteria and specific milk bacteria growth
• Milk fat: milk cream
• Sugar (sucrose)
• Mel
• Fruit, vegetables, and by-products: strawberry, coconut, papaya, mango, plum, peach, passion fruit, blueberry, raspberry, blackberry and blueberry; carrot
• Cereals and grains: rye, rice, corn, oat, soybean, buckwheat, durum wheat, amaranth, etc.
• Seeds: chia, linseed, pumpkin, sunflower
• Almonds, nuts and legumes: nuts, chestnuts, hazelnut, peanut, almonds, macadam, pistachio
• Cocoa, chocolate and by-products: cocoa powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, cocoa liquor, chocolate powder, chocolate nibs
• Caramel syrup: sugar and water
• Apple juice
• Water
• Starch

in 2022, Ital and Good Food Institute conducted a study about nutrients and ingredients of 178 products marketed in Brazil, obtaining the following results. The industrialized plant-based beverages are mostly composed of common food raw materials, such as:

• Drinking water
• Peanut, almonds, and chestnuts: cashew nuts, Brazil nut and macadamia.
• Rice: white rice, whole, organic rice, and rice flour.
• Oat: oat, oat flour.
• Cocoa by-products: conventional cocoa powder and organic cocoa powder.
• Coconut: coconut powder, organic coconut powder, coconut cream, powdered coconut milk (conventional and organic) and coconut base (water plus coconut cream ).
• Other fruits: banana (dehydrated powder, organic green, pulp, preparation, and puree) apple, strawberry, coconut and pineapple.
• Juices: orange, apple (conventional or organic), passion fruit, peach, grape, pineapple, cabbage and red fruit (strawberry, prune, and raspberry).
• Tapioca powder
• Carob
• Cinnamon powder
• Beetroot: beetroot powder, beetroot concentrate.
• Yam
• Freeze-dried coffee (instant)
• Oils: soybean, sunflower (conventional and organic) coconut, palm, and chia oil.
• Sugar: sugar, organic sugar, coconut sugar, organic demerara sugar, liquid sugar, glucose
• Salt: kitchen salt (Sodium Chloride, NaCl); and Himalayan pink salt.
• Soybean extract (“soybean milk”): soybean extract and fat-free soybean extract.

In 2020, Ital and ABIR conducted a study about nutrients and ingredients of 217 products marketed in Brazil, obtaining the following results. Industrialized juices are composed mainly of common food raw materials used to make juices at homes and restaurants. The main ingredients that form the industrialized juices liquid volume consumption are ready to consumption:

• Fruits, fruit juices, pulps, fruit purees and extracts: peach, cashew, orange, lime, tangerine, grape, mango, pineapple, apple, passion fruit, banana, guava, acerola, açaí, lychee, raspberry, blackberry and blueberry
• Greenery and other vegetables: ginger, Peruvian maca, hibiscus extracts, spirulina, green tea, Cayenne pepper; pea, rice and chia plant-based protein
• Cereals and seeds: quinoa, chia, linseed, oat
• Almonds (nuts)
• Cocoa (nibs)
• Water: drinking water
• Coconut water
• Sugar: sucrose, glucose, fructose

in 2021, Ital and ABIS conducted a study about nutrients and ingredients of 180 products marketed in Brazil, obtained the following results. The industrialized ice creams are mostly composed of common food raw materials, and most of them are available to the consumer in the retail segment. The ingredients used in industrialized ice cream can be divided in three groups: basic, optional and additions. The basic are food raw material such as water, milk, whey, plant-based proteins, animal-based and plant-based fat, and sugar. The optional ingredients are also food raw materials of common use, such as cocoa, coconut milk, fruit, coffee, yogurt, etc., used in the ice cream mass to contribute with the flavor, texture, in addition to nutritional enrichment. And additions make the ice cream more indulgent, adding value and flavor to the product. They are also made by food products of common use, such as cakes, cookies, confectionery, milk jam, marshmallow, peanut farofa and other candies and preparations:

• Drinking water: used in the preparation of water-based, fruit ice cream, or to reconstitute powdered milk to change it unto liquid milk
• Milk: pasteurized or UHT, powdered milk
• Milk cream
• Butter
• Oils and plant-based fats
• Sugar: sucrose, glucose
• Salt
• Whole egg
• Seeds:
• Cocoa: powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, cocoa liquor; chocolate
• Coconut milk
• Fruits: strawberry, coconut, pineapple, lime, grape, orange, tangerine, mango, prune, passion fruit and e raspberry
• Gelatin
• Starch

In 2021, Ital and ABIA conducted a study about nutrients and ingredients of 90 products marketed in Brazil, obtaining the following results. The industrialized hamburgers are mainly composed of common food raw materials used to make hamburgers in other places, mostly available to the consumer in the retail segment. The main ingredients that form the industrialized hamburgers base are food raw materials of common use, such as:

• Beef: beef forequarter cuts, other cuts can be used, such as, ribs, file mignon, thin skirt, rump, boneless Angus rib.
• Chicken meat: chest, tights or drumsticks.
• Pork: shoulder, shoulder upper part, and pork knuckle.
• Plant-based protein concentrates: pea protein, textured soybean protein.
• Vegetables rich in proteins; pea, chia, fradinho beans, black beans, chicken pea, lentil linseed, quinoa, sunflower seed and sesame seed.
• Other plant-based products; pumpkin, celery, whole rice, eggplant, powdered beetroot, beetroot concentrate, broccolis, cashew nut, carrot, kale, spinach, green corn and tomato.
• Animal-based fat and bacon: beef, pork, and chicken fat, bacon.
• Plant-based oils and fat and margarine: margarine, soybean plant-based fat, palm fart, cotton oil, soybean oil, coconut oil, sunflower oil, extra-virgin olive oil.
• Pepperoni
• Drinking water
• Seasonings: rosemary, garlic, leek, onion, red onion, green onion, ginger, sesame, basil, marjoram, tarragon, etc.
• Wheats, brans and flakes: wheat, rice, corn, manioc, chicken pea, and breadcrumbs flour; soy brans and rice flakes.
• Gluten
• Oat: whole, flakes, etc.
• Sugar: common sugar or sucrose, and the glucose, glucose or dextrose.
• Cheese: buffalo cheese, coalho cheese, prate cheese, and cream cheese.
• Tofu
• Salts: Kitchen salt (Sodium chloride); Himalayan pink salt and Potassium Chloride or low-sodium salt.
• Starch: rice, maze, manioc, potato starch, etc.
• Egg: dehydrated whole chicken egg.
• Chemical yeast: disodium pyrophosphate and sodium bicarbonate.
• Mushrooms: Paris, shimeji e shitake.

In 2022, Ital and ABICAB conducted a study about nutrients and ingredients of 483 products marketed in Brazil, obtaining the following results. Industrialized chocolate products, generally, are mainly composed of common food raw materials:

• Cocoa and by-products: cocoa, organic cocoa, biodynamic cocoa, cocoa mass, cocoa paste, powdered cocoa (organic or conventional), cocoa butter, cocoa butter (organic or biodynamic), cocoa nibs and organic cocoa nibs.
• Flours: wheat, manioc, and soybean flour.
• Cereals: rice, barley malt, toasted malt, extract and oat.
• Fruits and by-products: grated coconut, roasted coconut, coconut milk, strawberry, lemon juice, lemon scraps, strawberry jam, raisin, guava, apricot, orange, orange flakes, crystallized orange peel, passion fruit, mango, banana, pistachio, licuri, açaí, acerola, cherry, pineapple, cranberry, dehydrated blackberry
• Seasonings and spices: cinnamon, ginger, sesame, mint, pepper mix infusion, safflower concentrate (bastard saffron) and lime, cardamom, hibiscus, iquiriba, puxuri and Amazonian spices.
• \Coffee: soluble coffee, organic coffee and coffee grains.
• Starch: wheat starch, tapioca starch, manioc starch.
• Oilseeds: peanut, peanut paste, hazelnut, hazelnut in paste, cashew nut, Brazil nut, nuts, macadamia, caramelized macadamia (macadamia, sugar, and cinnamon), almonds butter, almonds flours and cashew nut flour.
• Milk and by-products: powdered skimmed cow milk and powdered whole milk, lactose-free powdered whole milk, goat milk; condensed milk, powdered yogurt, milk cream.
• Oils, fats, and butter: soybean, palm, sunflower, coconut and palm oils; butter, plant-based fat.
• Sugar, molasses, caramel and honey: conventional and organic sugar, conventional and organic demerara sugar, sugarcane molasses, honey, caramel, glucose syrup, maze syrup.
• Salt: kitchen salt (Sodium Chloride, NaCl); pink Himalaya salt; and salt flower
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• Alcoholic beverages: cereal alcohol, cognac, sugar cane spirits, cherry liquor, rum and red wine.
• Soybean extract.
• Textured soybean protein.
• Quinoa.
• Amaranth.
• Drinking water.
• Egg: egg white, yolk, and albumin.
• Cookies.
• Crispy: cashew nut, peanut, coffee, coconut, milk jam.
• Maraschino cherry.
• Milk jam.
• Açaí jam.

Em 2022, o Ital and ABICAB conducted a study about nutrients and ingredients of 416 products marketed in Brazil, obtaining the following results. The industrialized peanut products, generally, are mostly composed of common food raw materials, and most of them are available to the consumer in the retail segment:

• Peanut and by-products: peanut in natura (with our without peel, toasted peanut (with our without peel), granulated roasted peanut, peanut butter, sugar-free paçoca and peanut flour.
• Cocoa and by-products: cocoa powder, cocoa butter, cocoa liquor, cocoa paste, organic cocoa powder, cocoa nibs, diet milk chocolate, semi sweet chocolate, 100% cocoa chocolate, 70% cocoa chocolate, 50% cocoa chocolate, zero-sugar vegan 50% cocoa chocolate, 50% and 70% cocoa chocolate nibs, white chocolate nibs, 50% cocoa chocolate nibs, sugar-free milk chocolate, white chocolate, granulated milk chocolate, sugar-free granulated milk chocolate and sugar-free milk chocolate topping.
• Corn flour and semolina: corn flour, manioc, organic amaranth, organic rice, organic grape skin, cashew nut, organic quinoa and oat.
• Fruits and by-products: coconut (flakes, grated, milk and sugar-free grated), banana (pulp, puree, powder, dehydrated and freeze-dried), plum, cranberry, dehydrated cranberry, dehydrated apricot, dehydrated gojiberry, raisin, dehydrated apple, apple juice, strawberry.
• Seeds: Amaranth seeds, linseed, brown linseed, chia, quinoa, pumpkin, sesame, sunflower, sunflower nugget.
• Cereals: rice, whole rice flakes, rye flakes, oat flakes and mix of 7 whole grains (rice flakes, oat, wheat flour, linseed, sesame, quinoa and chia).
• Seasonings and spices: cinnamon, red pepper, curry, curcuma cardamom, dehydrated garlic, dehydrated onion, dehydrated parsley, sesame, ginger resin oil, nutmeg and oregano
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• Coffee: organic toasted and ground coffee and instant coffee.
• Milk and by-products: whole and skimmed milk powder, lactose-free milk powder, condensed milk.
• Sugar and sweeteners: white, brown, demerara sugar; coconut sugar; molasses; sugarcane juice; glucose syrup; honey.
• Oils and fats: plant-based oil, soybean oil, sunflower, cotton, coconut, peanut, virgin olive oil, margarine.
• Salt: kitchen salt; Himalayan pink salt; light salt.
• Plant-based proteins: soybean, pea and rice proteins.
• Gelatin.
• Starch: rice, maze, manioc, tapioca etc.
• Sour manioc powder.
• Sauces and extracts: shoyu, malt and rosemary extracts.
• Drinking water.
• Toasted soybean.