Our Opinion
Ingredion, Inc. is on the Cruelty Free Investing use of animals list because they recently acquired KaTech, a privately held company headquartered in Lübeck, Germany that provides advanced texture and stabilization solutions to the food and beverage industry. KaTech uses meat, dairy, and eggs as raw materials to produce food ingredients.
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Company Description
Ingredion, Inc. manufactures and sells sweetener, starches, nutrition ingredients and biomaterial solutions derived from the wet milling and processing of corn and other starch-based materials. It turns corn, tapioca, potatoes and other vegetables and fruits into value-added ingredients and biomaterials for the food, beverage, paper and corrugating, brewing and other industries. The company provides ingredients that are found in the foods, beverages, personal care items and pharmaceuticals. Ingredion was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Westchester, IL. [Source: MarketWatch]
Company Website: http://www.ingredion.com