La Loma Foods
| Formerly | Loma Linda Food Company, Loma Linda Foods |
|---|---|
| Industry | Meat analogue products |
| Website | atlanticnaturalfoods |
La Loma Foods, formerly named Loma Linda Food Company and Loma Linda Foods, and with products presently branded under the name Loma Linda and Loma, is a former food manufacturing company that produced vegetarian and vegan foods. It is presently an active brand of vegetarian and vegan food products produced and purveyed by the Atlantic Natural Foods Company of Nashville, North Carolina. Loma Linda Foods began operations in 1905 under the name The Sanitarium Food Company and was owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church until 1990.
Overview
La Loma Foods is a former food manufacturing company and
At the time the Loma Linda Food Company was founded in 1933, it produced some of the first meat analogue products prepared from soy and wheat that were available in the United States on a commercial basis.
History
Loma Linda Foods was preceded by the Loma Linda Sanitarium bakery, officially named The Sanitarium Food Company, which began operations in 1905 in Loma Linda, California.[4][5] The company under the name Loma Linda Food Company was created in 1933, at which time it opened a new production facility in La Sierra, near Riverside, California.[4][5]
The company's name was changed to La Loma Foods in 1989,[4] and in 1989 the company sold its infant formula brand and line to N.V. Nutricia, a Dutch company.[5] The Seventh-day Adventist Church sold the company to Worthington Foods of Ohio in 1990, and Worthington Foods was acquired by The Kellogg Company in 1999.[1][11] The Kellogg Company sold the company to the Atlantic Natural Foods Company in 2015.[1][10][11]
Products
Currently, Atlantic Natural Foods labels the La Loma products which they acquired from Kellogg's with both the Worthington and Loma Linda logo. Products include:
- Big Franks
- Dinner Cuts (no longer manufactured)
- Fried Chik'n
- Little Links
- Linketts
- Nuteena (no longer manufactured)
- Redi-Burger
- Swiss Stakes
- Tender Bits
- Tender Rounds
- Vege-Burger
Products that were produced by Worthington Foods and are now labeled as both Loma Linda and Worthington are as follows:
- Chili
- Choplets
- Diced Chik
- FriChik
- Multigrain Cutlets (no longer manufactured)
- Prime Stakes
- Saucettes
- Super Links
- Vegetarian Burger
- Vegetable Skallops
- Vegetable Steaks
- Veja-Links
See also
- List of vegetarian and vegan companies
- Earth's Own Food Company - A Seventh-day Adventist food company in British Columbia, Canada
- Sahmyook Foods – A Seventh-day Adventist food company in South Korea
- Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company - A Seventh-day Adventist food company in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
References
- ^ a b c "Loma Linda-Worthington Brand Given New Life by Atlantic Natural Foods Company". Adventist Today. January 7, 2015. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
- ^ Schroeder, Eric (October 8, 2014). "Atlantic Natural Foods inks deal with Kellogg". Food Business News. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
- ^ a b "Loma Linda". Atlantic Natural Foods. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4422-4188-6.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-928914-28-0.
- ^ "Loma Linda Foods". SoyInfo Center. 2004. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
- ISBN 978-1-928914-64-8.
- ^ Connolly, Matt (July 26, 1999). "Timeline: A short history of fake meat". Mother Jones. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
- ^ Braun, Whitny (April 6, 2016). "Meat Analogues: Just Like Your Adventist Mother Used to Make". The Huffington Post. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
- ^ a b "Kellogg Sells Worthington and Loma Linda Brands". Spectrum Conversation. October 10, 2014. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-928914-72-3.