Fresh and Tasty

The flavor, freshness and quality of your family’s food is one of your primary concerns – and Dow helps give you peace of mind thanks to a long history of innovations in food packaging, storage and biotechnology.

Thanks to the latex coatings created with Dow’s emulsion polymers, the paper used in everyday food packaging such as pet food bags gives you durability and product freshness.

The fruits and vegetables that you enjoy are full of nutrients and free of pests thanks to LORSBAN™ insecticides that help defend crops from insect attack. Several other food crops – including rice, soybean, corn and grain – are protected by products developed and manufactured at Dow and used as the active ingredient in many herbicide formulations.

Dow also provides a direct link from the cattle farm to your dinner table. Dow’s herbicide formulations help farmers control weeds on rangelands, boosting corn crops, which leads to more food for cattle and, ultimately, higher quality meat.

You probably don’t even notice it, but some of the food qualities you depend on are provided by METHOCEL™ Food Gums which help to improve stability, texture, and shelf life in many prepared foods. METHOCEL is used as a thickener and coating, giving your family’s foods a consistent texture and predictable performance during cooking. METHOCEL is used in baked goods, smoothies and milkshakes, nutritional drinks, confections, frozen food, fillings, salad dressings, soups, sauces and gravies, and pet food.