French food giant and Toronto company team up to harness the new promise of Canadian oats Canada is great at growing oats, just not so great at processing them Photo by Getty ImagesArticle content Oat Canada, a Toronto-based maker of oat milk, gets its crops from Alberta. Try refreshing your browser, or French food giant and Toronto company team up to harness the new promise of Canadian oats Back to video It would be easier to do it all at home. PIC brokered a $4.1 million deal between Oat Canada and Roquette Frères SA, a French food processor, to develop new ingredients using Canadian oats. Photo by Oat Canada For Oat Canada, the deal could mean that it will no longer have to ship oats back and forth across the border, reducing their carbon footprint and freight costs. The company will also use the new oat ingredients to experiment with other dairy alternatives.

Source: National Post March 26, 2022 03:35 UTC