Striving for Even More Goodness
There’s good behind our goodness. Within every cheesy bite of Babybel®, there’s a team of farmers, cows and even experts in sustainability. All of whom strive hard to do their best for you, each other, and the planet.
Agricultural Goodness
Agricultural Goodness
Sourcing
Babybel® collaborates with farmers close to our plants to minimize milk transportation, support our farming communities and to ensure our goods are delivered fresh.
Our milk is provided by farmers local to our factories.
Local farmers provide fresh milk every day or two.
When it comes to quality, we act fast! Our milk can be traced from the factory to the farm in under 4 hours.
The distance from our local farms to our factories is 200km or less!
Farmers for Goodness
Our farmers work hard. Without them, the goodness we enjoy every day would stop at the cows! Here are a few ways we look out for them.
When farmers are paid fairly for their milk, they can better support themselves. So we’ve made that the standard for the hundreds of French farmers we work with.
Our French farmers show they care by implementing sustainable practices. And we care about them! That’s why we’re committed to paying higher than market average for their milk.
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Since December 2017, every year we renew an innovative remuneration system ensuring financial security for every farmer of the APBO (the Bel west producers association).
We always ensure that our farmers are treated fairly and get a higher than average price of the French market for their milk. We also include bonuses for the implementation of sustainable practices.
Good practices
Behind every happy cow is a dedicated farmer. From supporting sustainable practices to providing good working conditions, we look out for our farmers so they can look out for our cows.
Our farmers treat their cattle to the best living conditions, like ample space and food.
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FOOD: Cow rations are mainly composed of 80% fodder/grass, and 20% other feed such as grains, canola, soy and sunflower.
LIVING CONDITIONS: We work closely with our partner farmers to ensure the best living conditions for their cattle. Since 2017, Babybel® is helping all partner farmers to improve animal welfare and meet clear objectives by 2025. Babybel’s® commitments are based on Bel’s animal welfare charter, developed in partnership with the CIWF (Compassion in world farming), specialised in farm animal welfare.
BOTH: Free grazing cows (when weather permits) in France since 2018. A minimum of 150 days of grazing a year between spring and autumn.
We’re helping develop the latest and greatest in sustainable practices at our farms.
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We help the farmers we work with to reach their objectives by 2025 to build a more sustainable dairy sector. Babybel® helps farmers implement good practices on four major focus points: quality of life and workload, environment, animal feed autonomy and cost reduction.
Our farmers value biodiversity! That’s why they aim to reduce carbon emissions.
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We work with our partner farmers and growers to lower the impact of ingredient production on biodiversity by promoting pasture grazing, development of sustainable farming practices such as crop rotation and soil treatment to protect biodiversity, and promote agroforestry and the planting of hedges on farms.
Bel maintains long-term partnerhsips with milk producers and we are committed to ensuring our farmers get a fair price for their milk.
We encourage our farmers to source feed locally, helping animals and businesses thrive.
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We promote innovative methods in the farms, such as free grazing, production of local feed for cows and land regeneration or agroforestry. All these practices contribute to create carbon wells and helps to reduce GHG emissions.
Cared-for cows
Why is Babybel ® such a playful snack? It all starts with our cows! Here are some ways we make sure our cows live happy, healthy and PLAYFUL lives.
As with all EU cheese, we use no artificial growth hormones
Our goal is to ensure our cows are fed with 100% GMO free feed!
100% of our French cows enjoy free-grazing in the sunshine. Unfortunately, it is too cold in Slovakia for our cows to be 100% free-grazing.
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Since 2018, 100% of our French milk comes from free grazing cows – Evron/Sablé sourcing ONLY
All our cows enjoy the outdoors in the sunshine, and the comfort of barns at night.
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As soon as the weather picks up, cows are outside and eat grass. During pasture season, cows are out during the day, and they take shelter for the night in barns.
All our cows stay healthy by eating a balanced diet of grass, hay, corn and soy.
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Cow rations are mainly composed of 80% fodder/grass, and 20% other feed such as grains, canola, soy and sunflower.
Our french cows graze for at least 150 days a year between Spring and Autumn!
All our cows are cared for, ensuring they live happy and healthy lives.
Our partner farmers keep cows comfortable with plenty of space in their barns.
Positive Impact on Forestry
We’re constantly striving to find ways to limit the impact we have on the environment, while making sure our cows are fed the best feed. Our goal is to achieve zero deforestation impact!
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In collaboration with the WWF, which help to reduce deforestation, we encourage the development of sustainable ingredients used for animal feed.
We avoid importing feed where we can!
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Free grazing also contributes to food self-sufficiency, which makes it possible to reduce imported food which can contribute to deforestation, thus contributing to the protection of equatorial forests and biodiversity.
We encourage planting trees and hedges to provide our cows with shade while helping fuel a thriving ecosystem and enrich the soil for delicious grass. Just ask our cows!
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Planting trees and hedges in the pasture areas can provide shading for the cows, richer soil and grass of greater quality, while developing a strong and more resilient ecosystem!
How do we protect biodiversity? By developing pasture areas around farms that let earthworms do their job. When soil is protected and not turned over, it captures carbon and nitrogen and stimulates biodiversity like insects and pollinators. Planting hedge rows creates homes for wildlife.
Sustainable Manufacturing
Sustainable Manufacturing
Sustainable Packaging
The goodness we wrap our delicious snacks with should match the goodness inside every bite! That’s why we’ve taken big steps to make sure we’re doing our best, both inside and out.
Our wrapper is made of cellulose that comes from certified forests. That means it’s now home-compostable!
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The cellophane wrapper is made of cellulose found in wood and comes from certified sustainably managed forests. The Natureflex cellophane is certified home-compostable.
Our red wax helps protect and preserve our cheese.
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The wax prevents desiccation or mold and helps preserve the cheese in hygienic conditions until consumption.
We use 100% recycled or certified cardboard, all of which is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
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100% certified or recycled since 2019 for primary and secondary Babybel® packaging. The cardboard and paper used are certified FSC (Forest Stewardship council) to ensure sustainable management of the forests.
Future goals
Every day we’re striving to be more and more sustainable! Here are the steps we’re taking to be better in the future.
We’re looking beyond the net for fully-recyclable packaging solutions.
We’re even exploring ways to remove the wrapper altogether (while preserving quality, of course!)
We’re reimagining our red wax by finding ways to use materials that are better for the environment like plant-based wax. Stay tuned!
Our dedicated packaging development team are continuously looking at options to make sure that our future packaging is not only just recyclable but also maintains the quality of our Babybel’s ® to the best possible standard.
Reduce & Reuse
We’re making waves in fighting food waste and improving our recycling chain.
As Babybel ® packaging is not yet widely recyclable, it can’t be placed in your recycling bin at home, so it needs to be recycled in a special way. This is why we have launched a TerraCycle scheme in the UK to offer customers a simple and free solution to recycle our packaging while supporting local charities and schools with donations at the same time. TerraCycle can recycle all Babybel ® packaging elements and is a positive step towards our commitment to becoming 100% recyclable or compostable.
All you have to do is find out where your local public drop-off location is below and drop off your Babybel packaging.
No cheese will go to waste on our watch! If there’s any leftover during production, it gets used for other (delicious) products.
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No cheese is wasted. Products that do not make the grade (too small, not properly shaped etc.) are used to produce other products.
We encourage recycling at all levels of distribution.
No leftovers here! Portions for one don’t just mean a balanced diet. They also mean less leftover waste.
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We offer individual portions (20g), providing a fair dose of cheese and allowing nutritional needs to be met while controlling consumption.
iN THE FUTURE
We’ve got big goals for the future. Our protective red wax may be able to protect our snacks, without any additional packaging! For Mini Babybel®, the red wax is the main protective shell. Therefore, Babybel® is testing a program to sell Mini Babybel® without any additional packaging.
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To launch our Babybel® bulk alternative, we work with Day by Day, a chain of stores in France committed just as we are to the reduction of the impact of packaging, to avoid food waste but still stay affordable.
We’ll be offering our products in bulk with no excess packaging!
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For Mini Babybel®, unlike other products, the wax is the main protective shell. Therefore, the Babybel® teams are working on a pilote to sell Mini Babybel® without any packaging other than its iconic wax.
Our products are sold individually so you can buy 1 or 100 and keep on a budget!
In France, we are trialling a partnership with Day by Day: a retailer as committed to reducing waste as we are.
Nutrition
JOIN THE GOODNESS
Through the power of Mini Babybel® Original and Light cheese, a more delicious and satisfying world is just a peel away.
Taste buds aren’t the only part of your body that loves Mini Babybel®. This 100% real cheese is a delicious snack offering the goodness of dairy. Mini Babybel® will please the whole family and keep them satisfied, all in one single portion. Perfect at home or on the go when hunger strikes.
DISCOVER WHAT MAKES BABYBEL®
A DELICIOUS SNACK
UNWRAP OUR CHEESEMAKING SECRETS
So here’s a bit about how we make our Mini Babybel ® Original taste so good with only 4 simple cheese ingredients!
Milking the cow
Our cheese is made with cow’s milk that comes from carefully chosen farms.
Transforming our milk into cheese
Our milk is then pasteurized and transformed into curd. Then we press the curd into individual molds to give our mini cheese its special shape.
Time for a bath
The future Mini Babybel® takes a dive into salted water (called brine) that will preserve the cheese and develop its unique flavor.
Getting dressed!
Each cheese is coated in wax to keep its freshness before its famous red wrapper adds the finishing touch.
And there you go, your favorite snack is ready to enjoy!
SAY HELLO TO
ANOTHER WAY TO SNACK
Snacking can be an enjoyable moment to satisfy cravings between meals with a combination of convenient and tasty foods.
Water
1 Mini Babybel® Original
1 serving of whole grains
1 fruit/vegetable or some nuts
GOODNESS- INSPIRED
SNACKING
Give mindful snacking a try with one Mini Babybel® paired with fresh orange juice and a slice of whole grain bread.
Give mindful snacking a try with one Mini Babybel® paired with water and an apple.
Give mindful snacking a try with one Mini Babybel® paired with a glass of water and a handful of nuts and fruit.
WHEN IT COMES TO SNACKING,
THIS IS HOW WE ROLL
Have a playful and delicious snacking moment with these Mini Babybel® creations, keeping you satisfied between meals, after sports practice or when you need a pick-me-up.
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RED, WHITE, AND BLUEBERRY SNACK
Set off the flavour fireworks with this patriotic pairing. Ingredients 1 serving of Mini Babybel® Original semisoft cheese, unwrapped 4 whole … -
SPRINGTIME SNACK CHEESE TRIO
Springing ahead isn’t just for clocks. Take springtime snacking to the next level with this creamy, crunchy pairing. Ingredients 1 serving of Mini … -
ENJOY A TASTE OF AUTUMN WITH BABYBEL® SNACKS
When you’re done raking leaves, come inside and enjoy a delectable snack of fruit, seeds and Mini Babybel® cheese. Ingredients 1 serving of Mini …
