Organic Valley Product Ingredients

Added Ingredients

We strive at every level to produce our products as naturally as possible with a minimum of additional ingredients. When we do add ingredients it is most likely consumer demand or government regulation that brings us to using these materials. An example would be calcium added to orange juice, which is our second-biggest seller in that category. Due to the way the natural calcium is processed, calcium is defined as a synthetic. The entire list of added ingredients in Organic Valley products that are either synthetic or non-organic that are allowed by the NOP are listed in the attached link. We are working hard to move away from these ingredients or at least to find organic sources for them. This is a work in progress and we will be updating this chart of Organic Valley's Added Ingredients regularly as we find alternatives.

Fair Trade Ingredients

We are happy to announce that we have switched four ingredients to fair trade sources: sugar, vanilla and nutmeg in July 2010, and cocoa in February 2011. Our Fair Trade Sugar is sourced from Brazil, Vanilla comes from India, and Nutmeg is sourced from Sri Lanka. Cocoa is a blend of beans sourced from Conacado Cooperative in the Dominican Republic and Naranjillo Cooperative in Peru. Some or all of these ingredients are used in Organic Valley vanilla, strawberry and chocolate 8-ounce milks, 2% chocolate milk, soy milk, vanilla yogurt, eggnog and new flavored half & half and soy creamers. We are currently evaluating our options for switching to other fair trade ingredients and will update this section accordingly.

At Organic Valley, we have always been concerned with the fair treatment of farmers and farm workers nationally and internationally. Here at home, we were instrumental in founding the Domestic Fair Trade Association, an organization whose mission it is to promote and protect the integrity of Domestic Fair Trade Principles through education, marketing, advocacy and endorsements. We remain active members of this organization today.