Renewal Mill’s Soft-Baked Salted Peanut Butter Cookies Made with Miyoko’s Creamery Cultured Vegan Butter Are Now Available
OAKLAND, California —(March 7, 2022)— Renewal Mill, an upcycled food company and industry leader in plant-based, climate-friendly baking products, has partnered with Miyoko’s Creamery, an innovative plant milk creamery, to create a new collection of chef-crafted cookies. Renewal Mill’s Salted Peanut Butter Cookies are now made with upcycled Miyoko’s Creamery European Style Cultured Vegan Butter, marking the first co-branded, upcycled product using Miyoko’s Creamery ingredients. Together, Renewal Mill and Miyoko’s are unlocking the next generation of plant-based foods that not only taste great, but are good for the planet, too.
True to its mission to reduce food waste and create a new circular food economy, Renewal Mill is working with Miyoko’s Creamery to capture the portion of its vegan butter left in its churning equipment at the end of production and put it to its best and highest use. Recognized for its cultured flavor and world-class performance, Miyoko’s European Style Cultured Vegan Butter is crafted to melt, brown, spread and bake exactly like animal dairy butter. Miyoko’s Creamery butter is also lactose free, palm oil free, gluten-free, non-GMO, kosher, and certified USDA Organic, making it the ideal ingredient for Renewal Mill’s single-serve, ready-to-eat cookies.
Born out of a shared vision of sustainability, this partnership brings together two Northern California-based, women-owned companies that are each spearheading their respective climate movements. Miyoko’s Creamery is widely recognized as a “leading voice in the future of plant dairy,” evolving the ancient art of fermentation to craft artisan dairy cheeses and butters with plant milks. Renewal Mill is one of the first companies to convert food manufacturing byproducts into superfood ingredients and has led the charge to put upcycled food on the map as a top food industry trend. Renewal Mill’s flagship ingredient is okara flour, a high fiber, gluten-free flour made from soybean pulp leftover from soymilk production. In an added point of synergy, Miyoko’s Creamery founder and CEO, Miyoko Schinner, used okara as a key ingredient in her first company in Japan.
“According to Project Drawdown, a leading climate change research organization, reducing food waste and eating a more plant-rich diet are two of the top three things we can do to stay below two degrees of global climate warming” said Caroline Cotto, Renewal Mill’s co-founder. “Creating artisan cookies made with Renewal Mill’s upcycled ingredients and Miyoko’s Creamery’s plant milk butter is a delicious way to help achieve both of these goals and to put power back into the hands of consumers to make a difference.”
Jennifer Kaplan, Director of Sustainability at Miyoko’s Creamery added, “A vegan, non-GMO, gluten-free, upcycled soft-baked cookie that tackles food waste is a marker of a food system renaissance. What a dream come true to have a partner like Renewal Mill, who is revolutionizing the industry by finding delicious homes for rescued ingredients like our end-of-run butter. We can't wait for everyone to try our collaborative peanut butter cookie and taste how great doing good can be.” The product will debut at Natural Product Expo West on March 9-12th, and samples of the new Salted Peanut Butter SKU will be available at Booth #5684.
Renewal Mill and Miyoko’s Creamery plan to expand their partnership with the launch of additional soft-baked, ready-to-eat cookie flavors, such as Chocolate Chip and Snickerdoodle, later this spring. Handcrafted by a James Beard Award winning chef, Alice Medrich, and approved by Miyoko, an entrepreneur, best-selling cookbook author, vegan chef for more than 30 years and included in the 2021 Inaugural list of Forbes 50 over 50, these cookies impress on all fronts: taste, texture, and, of course, impact.
To purchase Renewal Mill’s soft-baked, ready-to-eat Salted Peanut Butter Cookies, or to learn more about its upcycled, climate friendly baking products, please visit Renewal Mill’s website at www.renewalmill.com. Renewal Mill’s soft-baked cookie collection is also available at renewalmill.faire.com. For more information about Miyoko’s Creamery, please visit the website at: www.miyokos.com.
ABOUT RENEWAL MILL:
Named a "World Changing Idea" by FastCompany, Renewal Mill is the first "climate friendly" baking company and upcycled ingredient supplier in the U.S. As a leading upcycled food company, Renewal Mill fights climate change and global food loss by upcycling byproducts from food manufacturing, converting them into superfood ingredients and premium, plant-based pantry staples. Starting with the byproducts of plant-based milk, Renewal Mill has crafted a line of premium, high fiber, gluten-free, vegan and plant-based flours, as well as ready-to-eat soft baked cookies and artisan "just add oil and water" baking mixes. All of Renewal Mill's products are chef-crafted by Alice Medrich, a five-times James Beard Award winning cookbook author. Renewal Mill is women-owned and operated and based in Oakland, California. To learn more about Renewal Mill or purchase its wholesale or consumer products, please visit www.renewalmill.com. Together, we can bake a better future.
ABOUT MIYOKO’S CREAMERY:
Miyoko's Creamery, founded by Miyoko Schinner, a visionary activist, chef and pioneer, crafts the finest vegan cheeses and butters from plant milks. With compassion at its core, Miyoko's Creamery is building a future where a plant milk dairy food system is a reality. By combining old-world creamery traditions with plant milk innovation, Miyoko's Creamery has evolved the craft of artisan cheese and butter making. From your cheese plate to your dinner plate, Miyoko's Creamery offers a selection of more than 25 plant milk cheeses and butters for every occasion. Products can be found at nearly 20,000 retailers nationwide, including Whole Foods, Target, Trader Joe's and Walmart as well as in-home delivery services like Amazon Fresh and Instacart via select retailers. Established in 2014, and based in Petaluma, California, Miyoko's Creamery is a registered B-Corp. For more information or recipes, visit Miyokos.com or follow @MiyokosCreamery on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.