JAPANESE FLUFFY CHEESECAKE (CHIIZUKEIKI)

Canada is a major producer, exporter and importer of an immense variety of agricultural and food products ranging from processed foods with global value chains to local, farm-based value chains.  In this section, we share 3 of our research insights and assess to what extent our recipe can be made from Canadian agricultural and food products.

The ease of accessibility of eggs makes it a cost-effective product and a staple that is included in many recipes across many cultures. Eggs are produced all over the world; hens lay them, farmers collect and transport them to processing plants to undergo egg cooling, cleaning, and packaging before they are further processed or go to retail.

Canada was the world’s 20th highest producer of milk in 2014. We were curious about all the packaging for milk such as cartons or bags. How much of this goes into landfills and what can be recycled.?

The cream cheese value chain begins very similarly to the milk value chain because milk is one of the primary ingredients in cream cheese. The milk is moved in refrigerated trucks to processing plants to be pasteurized, homogenized and packaged. Then, it can be transported to another factory using a refrigerated truck (usually a cheese factory) where it’s turned into cream cheese, packaged and transported to retailers or restaurants. Cream cheese can be used just by consumers and restaurants as is or as an ingredient in a more complex recipe.

In summary, all 9 of the 9 ingredients we needed are produced in Canada without much difficulty. None of the ingredients were not available, and required us to make substitutions