Healthy nutrition

Bringing healthy and affordable nutrition together

Plant-based nutrition is a trend. Healthy nutrition is becoming more important and consumers increasingly reject highly processed foods. As a result, the global market for peas and other legumes is growing steadily. Being in the seed business for many decades KWS has used its experience and R&D resources to turn the spotlight on protein crops with a new approach.

Of course, vegetables also play a major role when it comes to healthy diets for a growing world population. Therefore, KWS has entered the vegetables market in 2019, placing a strong focus on ensuring that eating vegetables is easy, tasteful, and sustainable. We focus on some of the most consumed crops, such as spinach, tomato and cucumber.

Our goal is to utilize state of the art plant breeding
to deliver improved functional ingredients from traditional crops in sustainable supply chains.

Karen Ilsemann, Research lead for KWS Nutritional Food Ingredients

Grain peas as crops of the future

Legumes are on everyone's lips: In the course of a more plant-based nutrition, the demand for peas and other legumes is steadily increasing. KWS also sees enormous potential for peas and other protein crops and already has a large potential genetic pool of pea varieties.

Vegetable seeds form a new business activity

Vegetable breeding is a long term endeavor. It takes an average of seven years from the start of a breeding program for a new variety to be launched. Thus acquisitions and partnerships with companies, who have already successfully embarked on this path, are an important cornerstone of our long-term strategy.

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Nutritional Food Ingredients

Healthy nutrition is becoming more important and consumers increasingly reject highly processed foods. Being in the seed business for many decades we‘ve used our experience and R&D resources to turn the spotlight on protein crops with a new approach. Read more about our contribution to tasty alternatives and successful products.

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Popeye was right

Spinach is one of the most nutritious vegetables consumed worldwide with lots of health benefits. The crop is an excellent source of crucial minerals, vitamins, plant proteins, fibres and omega 3’s. But it takes a lot of knowledge to develop new spinach varieties facing climatic changes and diseases. Learn more about our spinach varieties and why we are market leader:

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Organic varieties: KWS passion since 20 years

KWS is passionate to develop varieties especially for organic farming and to transferorganic knowledge and best practice examples into the practice. Therefore its have anown organic farm, a developer for organic varieties and a own and very experienced organic product management.

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Our Sustainability Ambition 2030

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