La Loma Foods, formerly named Loma Linda Food Company and Loma Linda Foods, and with products presently

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ed under the name Loma Linda and Loma, is a former

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company that produced

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and

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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

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until 1990.

Overview

La Loma Foods is a former food manufacturing company and

presently owned by Atlantic Natural Foods Company, based in

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, that manufactures and sells

and

foods. Food products are presently branded under the name "Loma Linda" by the Atlantic Natural Foods Company. The company was previously owned by the

and Worthington Foods. The company began operations in 1905 under the name The Sanitarium Food Company, and produced crackers, breads and cookies. Additional

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s were later produced by the company, such as the breakfast cereal

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, and the company also expanded to produce

infant formula Infant formula, baby formula, or simply formula (American English); or baby milk, infant milk or first milk (British English), is a manufactured food designed and marketed for feeding to babies and infants under 12 months of age, usually prepar ...

and

meat analogue A meat alternative or meat substitute (also called plant-based meat or fake meat, sometimes pejoratively) is a food product made from vegetarian or vegan ingredients, eaten as a replacement for meat. Meat alternatives typically approximate qua ...

products. 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. In the 1960s, Loma Linda Foods and Worthington Foods were the largest manufacturers of soy-based foods in the United States. Foods sold under the present Loma Linda

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include canned vegetarian/meat analogue products such as chili, taco filling and faux meats such as sausage, chicken, tuna, scallops and steak.

History

Loma Linda Foods was preceded by the Loma Linda Sanitarium bakery, officially named The Sanitarium Food Company, which began operations in 1905 in

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. 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

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. The company's name was changed to La Loma Foods in 1989, and in 1989 the company sold its infant formula brand and line to N.V. Nutricia, a Dutch company. The Seventh-day Adventist Church sold the company to Worthington Foods of Ohio in 1990, and Worthington Foods was acquired by

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in 1999. The Kellogg Company sold the company to the Atlantic Natural Foods Company in 2015.

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 Nuteena was a vegetarian meat analogue made primarily from peanut meal, soy, corn, and rice flour. Its recipe was based on Nuttose, which John Harvey Kellogg (whose brother Will Keith Kellogg founded what is now Kellogg's) created in 1896 as the fi ...

(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

References

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Overview

History

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References