Now you can have your cake and eat the spoon, too.
Planeteer’s Incredible Spoons You Eat won last night’s Front Burner Foodservice Pitch Competition. It beat out Savencia Cheese Pourable Cream Cheese, pitched by Bob Trently, and Maud Borup Fizzy Drink Bombs, pitched by Christine Lantinen.
The U.S. disposes of 100 million plastics after a single use each day, and 91 percent of biodegradable plastic ends up in landfills instead of being reused or recycled. With its spoons, Planeteer aims to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills.
Incredible Spoons come in table-size and dessert-size options, and in sweet and savory flavor varieties, including Black Pepper, Caraway Seed, Indian Masala, Vanilla, and Chocolate.
“It took us two years and 80-plus trials to get the shape and the taste right,” said Dinesh Tadepalli, co-founder, Planeteer.
The spoons are all natural, vegan, non-GMO, and have a one-year shelf life, he said. They last 45 minutes when used with cold desserts and 25 minutes with hot foods.
Planeteer manufactures 50,000 spoons per day, with 1 million spoons eaten since February 2019. The spoons have won multiple awards, including a 2019 SKS Future Food award. In addition, to set off its carbon emissions, Planeteer plants 250 trees for every 100,000 spoons that are made.
The company hopes to go beyond just spoons, according to Tadepalli. Currently in development are edible forks, smaller spoons, straws, and a coffee stirrer. A variety of other flavors, including cinnamon, are also being developed.
Judge Rafi Taherian, associate vice president of Yale Hospitality at Yale University said of Incredible Spoons, “It’s a relevant product and it performs very well.”
Incredible Spoons also won the Fan Favorite award for the night, which was voted for live by attendees of the event that was hosted by James Beard Award-winning cookbook author, international cooking teacher, and renowned chef, Joanne Weir.
In addition to Taherian, this year’s judges were Rachel Perez, a category specialist for Tony’s Fine Foods in Sacramento, Calif. and Chris Doering, national sales director for European Imports. They gave high scores to the spoons in each of the categories of innovation, quality, and chef-appeal for foodservice.
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