Beacon's tastes of the world.

Renowned for its portfolio of roasted and chargrilled vegetable and fruit ranges, relishes, chutneys and compotes, Beacon Foods is now launching the first in its Tastes of the World range.

These will consist of small, concise sets of sauces, relishes and chutneys to mix and match with proteins for sandwiches and salads.

Beacon Foods' first range, Indian Spice Magic, includes a Tikka Masala sauce, Nut Free Korma and three chutneys--Kashmiri Tomato Chutney, Indian Hot Banana Chutney and Mango.

Food consultant Nellie Nichols, who is working with Beacon Foods to expand and develop the company's products into new and exciting markets, believes 21st century product development must be more flexible, resourceful and skilful.

She said: "We intend to offer customers a dynamic portfolio of products that will make ingredients, such as plain cooked chicken, totally versatile, reducing the need for several different flavoured, bought-in proteins.

"From the development perspective we provide the solution. For example, a sandwich made with our Tikka Masala sauce, roast chicken, sliced cucumber, fresh coriander leaves and Kashmiri Tomato Relish or Mango Chutney should utilise only existing ingredients over and above what we can supply (of course a Cobra beer would be quite nice as well).

"There is a huge opportunity to provide customers with blueprints from different countries for their sandwich development, innovative frameworks of products that will provide them with a creative bedrock.

"We aim to become a development one stop shop for a wealth of countries including Thailand, Mexico, Morocco, Indonesia, Vietnam, Italy, France and Spain.

"Sandwich tastes are fast becoming more multi cultural and we believe we can respond swiftly to this need."

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