Starches for your Life

AGRANA Starch
Clean Label, Clear Choice: The Future of Food Ingredients
“Starches for your Life” episode 8 with Pierre Caron, Key Account Manager for West Europe

24.06.2025 17 min

In this episode the spotlight is on one of the fastest-growing trends in food production - Clean Label. While the term isn’t officially defined, it’s become a powerful consumer-driven movement focused on transparency, natural ingredients, and sustainability. 
Shaping the future of organic manufacturing
Interview with Leopold Schönauer, CEO of Marroquin Organic International

17.01.2025 20 min

On Starches for your Life, we talk to experts from our company, scientists, and industry insiders about trends, future, and topics that move us in the ingredients industry. Get inspired by listening to this podcast! In episode 7 of Starches for your Life we speak with Leopold Schönauer, CEO of Marroquin Organic International aboit the dynamics in the organic food market.
Food industry in Spain and Portugal

24.06.2024 13 min

On Starches for your Life, we talk to experts from our company, scientists, and industry insiders about trends, future, and topics that move us in the ingredients industry. Get inspired by listening to this podcast! In episode 6 of Starches for your Life we speak with olanda Nuñez Gallegos, Head of Nutrition Europe at HELM Ibérica, our distributor in Spain and Portugal about the food industry in this markets.
Quality management in focus
How is quality defined – and can a quality manager ever be satisfied?

05.06.2024 15 min

On Starches for your Life, we talk to experts from our company, scientists, and industry insiders about trends, future, and topics that move us in the ingredients industry. Get inspired by listening to this podcast! In episode 5 of Starches for your Life we speak with Stefan Reisinger, Head of Quality Management, about the role and responsibilities of quality management, the standards and certifications at AGRANA Starch.
Special Nutrition Solutions
From infant nutrition to lifecycle nutrition

29.01.2024 12 min

On Starches for your Life, we talk to experts from our company, scientists, and industry insiders about trends, future, and topics that move us in the ingredients industry. Get inspired by listening to this podcast! In episode 4 of Starches for your Life we speak with Tamara Ranzenberger-Haider, Head of Sales & Business Development for Special Nutrition Solutions and Infant Nutrition.
Plant-Based & Gluten-Free
About Gluten-Free products and the current plant-based trends in the industry

11.12.2023 16 min

On Starches for your Life, we talk to experts from our company, scientists, and industry insiders about trends, future, and topics that move us in the ingredients industry. Get inspired by listening to this podcast! In episode 3 of Starches for your Life we speak with Lea Steinwender, project manager for Starch Food at the AGRANA Research & Innovation Center. 
Starch in Bioplastics
How thermoplastic starch can help to make packaging more sustainable

10.10.2023 9 min

On Starches for your Life, we talk to experts from our company, scientists, and industry insiders about trends, future, and topics that move us in the ingredients industry. Get inspired by listening to this podcast! In episode 2 of Starches for your Life we speak with with AGRANA Research & Innovation Center team lead of the working group bioplastics at the Starch Non-Food department and thermoplastic starch expert Barbara Fahrngruber. 
Trends in Snacking
Plant-based food specialist Andrea Hochstöger in the interview

11.09.2023 12 min Vera Tinhofer

Starches for your Life episode 1 with AGRANA Starch product manager as well as organic, clean label, and plant-based food specialist Andrea Hochstöger.  In this podcast, we talk about the “Snacking” trend. Snacking nowadays is indispensable, an unbroken trend in the food industry with an increasing importance due to several changes in the modern diet. Megatrends like “Health”, “Eating-on-the-go” and “Snackification” – snacks instead of meals, play an important role in the success of snacking products. We will get to the bottom of these trends and talk about changes in the industry, key ingredients for snack products, and take a look into the future.