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Brand Name Sunergia
Rating (4)     Sunergia (Sunergia Soyfoods)

Company Sunergia Soyfoods
Location Charlottesville, VA
Products Seasoned Tofu, Cheese alternatives
Dairy Rating Company does not sell dairy products
Market Area Canada and USA
Web Site http://www.sunergiasoyfoods.com
 
Sunergia (Sunergia Soyfoods)

Sunergia is a family business, and readily shared its sourcing information. We were able to confirm that all organic soybeans in their tofu products are grown on North American family farms.

They write:

“Sunergia is a small family owned business that strives to manufacture and bring to market unique products of the highest quality. Our goals for our products are first, to make them delicious, so that they appeal to people, and that they are enjoyable and desirable to eat. We make vegetarian products, so our second goal is to make our products with no animal sourced ingredients, including all meats and dairy, as we believe that a vegetarian diet is healthiest as well as having the least impact on the planet. Third, we strive to use the most organic ingredients possible, our seasoned tofu is 100% organic and our cheese alternatives are 95% +. We believe that organically grown ingredients have more nutrition, less residues of pollutants, and better taste, than conventionally grown choices.”


Criteria Points Comments
Ownership Structure 80 Family Business
Percentage Organic Soybean Purchases 100 100% Organic Purchases
Disclosure of Information for Verification 100 Full and open disclosure
Organic Certifier 100 Quality Certification Services and OCIA
Organic Product Line 100 100% Organic Products
Manufacturing 90 Products are manufactured by a copacker with full disclosure
Sourcing and Farmer Relationships 80 Copackers source 100% directly from North American farmers
Prevention of GMO contamination 40 no testing; in the process of developing a testing system
Flavors 75 80% non organic, 20% organic
Soy Lecithin 100 none used
Total (out of 1000) 865 FOUR BEANS (Excellent)