A good squeeze: all you need to know about Soilmates Avocado Mayo
Cheeky little bottles filled with creamy, delicious avocado mayonnaise have finally hit Dutch supermarkets. That’s right – meet your latest squeeze: Soilmates Avocado Mayo, the newest member in the Soilmates range. WHY THE NEW ADDITION? Well, our OG avocado oil, Healthy Oil, was getting a little lonely up there on shelves, wasn’t it? With eight […]
food, health, sustainability
The EU avocado waste issue [in numbers]
FOOD WASTE: IT’S KIND OF A BIG DEAL Did you know that over a third of food produced globally is wasted? More than 1.3 billion tonnes get thrown away every year. It happens at various stages of the food chain: pre-harvest, in factories, in transit, in retail, and at home. It’s a huge problem, in which resources […]
food, sustainability
Partnership with local factory shrinks Soilmates’ carbon footprint
Soilmates’ journey started right here in the Netherlands. 62% of the EU’s avocados come through Rotterdam’s port, where they’re sorted and sent off to be ripened and sold in supermarkets. But that’s not every avo’s story: there are mountains of them that don’t make the cut. Over a million every day, in fact, are rejected […]
start-up, sustainability
Five reasons why Healthy Oil’s the ultimate bottle of benefits
World Health Day’s perhaps the perfect time to consider our impact on the planet, and take a look at what we’re putting into our bodies. There’s a lot of information out there – blogs, fake facts, greenwashing. He said, she said. Which is why we like to back it up. SoilScience, we like to call […]
food, health, sustainability
From zero to hero
A BUNDLE OF BIG DREAMS Three dreams found each other and started a company Davo saves the avo Dave’s great-grandfather plants a tree and starts an avo farm in western Kenya in 1930. Dave grows up loving avocados from the get-go. We’ve seen him talk to them. No joke. Health freaks around the globe realise […]
start-up, sustainability