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What's cooking in the Belgian food industry according to local product developers?

Milk and cheese of superior quality. A handy cap that doses nutritional supplements in a bottle of water. All the aforementioned initiatives fly the Belgian flag. 

“Food should be tasty, healthy and sustainably produced.” Veerle Rijckaert, Business Development Manager with Flanders’ FOOD, sets high standards.

BE DELICIOUS is a joint venture of Belgian food producers, who are eager to share their passion for the Belgian cuisine with the rest of the world.

BE Delicious is a new joint initiative of a number of companies and individuals who want to promote the Belgian food culture around the world via a number of typical Belgian products like shrimp croquettes. 

There is no doubt that Belgium is the country for beer. With its 150 breweries, ranging from small family breweries through medium-sized companies to big internationals, it offers a range of beers with highly contrasting tastes and flavours.

Anheuser-Busch InBev is the world’s leading brewer and is also one of the world’s top five consumer goods companies. 

The story of the Belgian frozen vegetable sector started in 1965 with the first company to start producing frozen vegetables. Since then the number of frozen vegetable companies in the Belgian vegetable-growing region of South and West Flanders has grown to twelve.

The international group Spadel produces and sells natural mineral water and lemonades. In 2009 SPA natural mineral water obtained the first European Quality Prize for Natural Mineral Water out of around 2,000 different types of water in Europe.

The Barry Callebaut Company began with the Callebaut family back in 1850. This highly entrepreneurial family founded a chocolate company in 1911 to add to its existing dairy and brewery. A century later, the family company had grown into an international company.

Belgian chocolate enjoys worldwide fame. And with just cause: Belgium is the country that ‘discovered’ the praline and no other country has more chocolatiers. Belgium is home to a multitude of the greatest names in the world of chocolate.

Barry Callebaut, owning the biggest chocolate factory in the world which is located in Belgium, received the right to use the first health claim in the cocoa and chocolate industry.