Innovation Chef Joins Bluegrass Ingredients® Agile Kitchen Team

BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky (January 21, 2025)Bluegrass Ingredients, Inc. ®, a leading R&D-based specialty food ingredients supplier, announced today Innovation Chef Grant Petersen has joined the company’s Agile Kitchen culinary team. The hire adds another chef with deep culinary and product development expertise to the Agile Kitchen at Bluegrass, a product development center and resource hub for acting on ever-evolving consumer food trends in close collaboration with food manufacturers.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Chef Grant to the team,” said Peter Losee, Vice President, Marketing of Bluegrass Ingredients. “Our customers count on us to deliver innovative ingredient solutions, and Chef Grant has built his career on exactly that kind of collaboration. He joins a robust team of chefs, food scientists, and R&D pros in the Agile Kitchen, and we can’t wait to start bringing him in on customer projects – and taste all the great food he’ll be cooking.”

Chef Grant brings more than 25 years of culinary and food service experience to Bluegrass Ingredients, most recently serving as the Senior Culinary Specialist at The Mushroom Company. He has also held roles at IMPOSSIBLE Foods, Inc. and Meatless Farm. His expertise in vegetarian and vegan food options will support continued growth of Bluegrass’ plant-based ingredients portfolio, which includes a first-of-its-kind vegan-friendly cheez concentrate product.

“I’m so excited to be joining a team where there is a tremendous drive to innovate and solve the challenges the food industry has grappled with for years,” said Chef Grant. “The Agile Kitchen is a special space, and I’m looking forward to rolling up my sleeves alongside the team and working with our customers to create ingredients and products consumers love to eat.”

The Agile Kitchen at Bluegrass™ is a creative space that blends innovation and insights to deliver formulations and products that align with pressing consumer trends. The company’s incubator for advancing flavor, form, and function, the Agile Kitchen is staffed with food scientists and culinary experts who work directly with customers to craft tailored formulations. This commitment to innovation and market analysis is a cornerstone of the company’s Agile Ingredient Innovation service model.

About Bluegrass Ingredients®

Bluegrass Ingredients exists to move flavor forward. Founded nearly three decades ago, Bluegrass Ingredients has evolved from a boutique dairy ingredients provider into one of the nation’s leading R&D-based ingredients suppliers to the food industry. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of turnkey and custom flavor powders, concentrates, dairy seasoning blends and ingredient solutions with best-in-class processing capabilities. Through its Bluegrass Agile Ingredient Innovation® service model, Bluegrass Ingredients utilizes its partner-driven approach and deep technical expertise to help startups and leading brands rapidly concept, test and produce the custom flavors and formulations they need to stay ahead. The Agile Kitchen at Bluegrass™ is the company’s innovation R&D hub, monitoring pressing industry trends and empowering remote and in-person collaboration to bring tomorrow’s flavors to life today. To learn more, visit www.bluegrassingredients.com.



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