Don't compromise on flavour and indulgence

Recently we read an interesting article in Snacks Magazine Spring edition, mentioning that "brands are increasingly looking for ingredients that can deliver nutritionally, but don’t compromise on flavour and indulgence". Besides health being an important focus, "consumers are looking to food to support their mental wellbeing and make them feel good, so 'tasty treats' are also in demand. Indulgent snacking is still important, as is flavour and the overall snacking experience."

These phrases fully match our product assortment. With nuts as a healthy base, we add #100%natural ingredients to turn them into a tasty and indulgent treat. While working at home, a handful of #highquality caramelised and flavoured nuts - for instance our Honey rosemary nuts - will give you an energy boost. And at your favourite snacking time, a handful of Honey BBQ almonds will definitely make you feel relaxed.

BRCGS Food Safety AA-level certified

Yesss! For the 13th year in a row, we’ve passed our annual BRCGS Food Safety audit with glance and again the highest AA-level is achieved.

Our BRCGS certificate, a leading recognition, shows that the Virgin Nuts production facilities (including our peanut free facility) meet all food safety (incl. food defense and food fraud prevention) requirements set by the British Retail Consortium (BRCGS).

The BRCGS certificate is recognized by the GFSI, the worldwide partnership of retailers.

Happy Easter

The second Easter without long time family traditions. Thanks to numerous digital and creative solutions, we can still spend valuable time with friends and family.

So, despite restrictions and lockdowns, let’s meet, eat and play games together with your loved ones these Easter day(s). Synchronize your brunch tables and contact the ones you want to spend Easter with. Eat, chat and enjoy!

We wish you all Happy Easter.

Caramelised almonds for chocolate

Chocolate is an #absolutelydelicious product. Imagine that extra dimension if chocolate is enriched by caramelised nuts, like these #loveatfirstbite caramelised almonds in the picture, but also seeds or puffed grains… Virgin Nuts is specialised in caramelising chocolate ingredients in many #100%natural flavours.
Besides that the nuts and (puffed) cereals remain crunchy, it prevents fat bloom and that makes every #chocolateproducer and #chocolatelover very happy.

Spring holidays 2021

During the upcoming holidays, our factories will be closed on:

• 2 April: Good Friday
• 5 April: Easter Monday
• 27 April: King's Day
• 13 May: Ascension Day (14 May: Factories closed)
• 24 May: Whit Monday

Contact us for more information about our production scheduling during the upcoming spring holidays. We wish you happy days!

Nationale Week zonder Vlees (No Meat Week)

Every year in March, we have this theme week in The Netherlands: Nationale Week zonder Vlees (No Meat Week) to encourage us all to not consuming meat for one week.

The aim of the campaign is to make the Netherlands aware of the positive environmental impact of eating less meat, and to show how easy this can actually be. Lots of companies and local celebrities support this campaign and even restaurants and suppliers of meal kits offer meatless menus.

To make our dinners just as tasteful, we add (pea)nuts to our dishes instead. For instance a good plate of nasi with our own spicy honey peanuts. The chili in this product gives your meal a kick, just like seasoned meat would do.

Want to adopt a flexitarian eating pattern, without compromising good tasting food? Combine your meals with caramelised or dry roasted and seasoned nuts or peanuts. Together we can make a difference.

International Women's Day

What a surprise! Our Polish colleagues brightened up this grey Monday with flowers for the women and cake for everyone to celebrate International Women’s Day, which was a national holiday in Poland for many years.

This touching gesture emphasizes the good, close and respectful cooperation of all colleagues, no matter gender, race or nationality. At Virgin Nuts we act according to the United Nations Global Compact Human Rights Principles.

We’re proud to work with women and men of multiple nationalities together in good harmony. Key principle: Always treat people the way you want to be treated: with respect.

Szczęśliwego Dzień Kobiet (Happy Women’s Day)!

4-3-21

It’s… TODAY! The descending low numbers of this special date inspired us to emphasize our clean label products and the minimum of ingredients that are used to create #absolutelydelicious #highquality #100%natural and #uniqueproducts we produce. Either caramelised or dry roasted and seasoned. We make it happen.

4 - Dry roasted rosemary chili almonds; only 4 ingredients make this #loveatfirstbite product: almonds, rosemary, chili and sea salt.
3 - Honey cashews; beautiful moon shaped cashews with sugar and honey; that’s all what’s needed to make an indulgent caramelised cashew with honey.
2 - Caramelised pecans; pecans and sugar (either beet sugar sor raw cane sugar); a perfect combination for allowing nuts to be processed in chocolate or ice cream, while preserving their original taste and crunchiness.
1 - We can also supply plain or roasted #almonds, #cashews, #hazelnuts, #peanuts, #pecans or other nuts. Pure and simple.

4 March 2021, we call it #cleanlabelday. Happy 4-3-21!

Granola for Food Bank

Sometimes you will only know the true value of food when it becomes unaffordable ... Thanks to Voedselbanken Nederland (Food Bank), food remains accessible, even when the going gets tough.

And unfortunately, the going also got tough for one of our customers. They didn’t survive the COVID-19 related regulations in their country and had to return freshly produced #absolutelydelicious granola. We’ve immediately decided to donate this granola to the Voedselbank and support their main goals: providing direct food aid to the ones in need and preventing the waste of good food.

Our 5 core values #thinkinginsolutions #highquality #uniqueproducts #serviceonly #100%natural all the way.

Clean label caramelised peanuts; safe snacking

Peanuts, you love them or you hate them (maybe even cannot eat them ;-(). Just like tree nuts, peanuts are full of unsaturated fats, iron, B vitamins and vitamin E, hence super healthy. At Virgin Nuts, we turn these ground nuts into an indulgent and clean label snack. No e-numbers and no artificial flavouring nor colouring. Our famous caramelised peanuts (or sugar peanuts, if you prefer) only consist of peanuts and sugar and are natural golden brown. On top of this: the caramelised layer provides a crunch, while the specific peanut flavour is retained. 100% natural caramelised peanuts… we love them!

p.s. if you have a zero-tolerance policy for peanuts, don’t let this post scare you off. We have a peanut free production facility, especially for the production of ingredients for many peanut free applications.

It’s all thanks to hazelnuts

5 February is #WorldNutellaDay, one of the most indulgent days of the year. Nutella® is a perfect combination of hazelnuts and cocoa. The story goes that it was a shortage of cocoa in the Piedmont region of Italy back in the 1800s, causing these two nature ingredients to combine. To stretch the supply, chocolate was mixed with ground hazelnuts. Much later Nutella® became the creamy version of the mixture and it’s one of those products that everyone knows around the world.

The reason that we honour this famous product, is obviously our love for hazelnuts – especially caramelised - and the #loveatfirstbite combination that nuts make - especially if caramelised 😉 - with chocolate. Whether whole, diced or slivered, we can produce Caramelised hazelnuts as the perfect ingredient for your chocolate.

Crunchy honey peanuts for peanut butter

January 24th is #NationalPeanutButterDay. On this day, the over 100 year old spread in its current form, gets the recognition it deserves. Creamy or chunky, with chocolate or with jelly, all delicious, but our top favourite is peanut butter with crunchy Honey peanuts #loveatfirstbite.

We’ve celebrated the anniversary with lots and lots of this comforting and filling spread. Of course only in our main building, because obviously we have a zero tolerance for peanuts and derivatives in our #peanutfree facility.

Botanical flavours @ Virgin Nuts

It’s winter in Europe. Even though it can be cold outside, it’s the season where we bring extra lights and warmth into our homes. And lots of comfortable smelling green and flowers. It’s the season in which we’ve said goodbye to the old and welcomed the new year. A new year in which the pandemic hopefully will be controlled, giving us free access to an enjoyable summer. With our Honey rose almonds we give you a sneak preview of a happy season full of light and fresh botanical flavours.