Move over, quinoa, Nestle Is looking for the next superfood in goldenberry

The company may add the Andean fruit, closely related to the tomato with a sweet and sour taste, to a range of products after acquiring a Latin American snack maker that relies on the ingredient

Quinoa is so 2017. Nestle SA’s new superfood candidate is the goldenberry.

The world’s largest food company may add the Andean fruit, closely related to the tomato with a sweet and sour taste, to a range of products after acquiring a Latin American snack maker that relies on the ingredient.

“One of our main rationales to partner up with Nestle was that we’ve seen excitement from Nestle to start using goldenberries as part of their ingredients in their products, from baby food to cereal bars to chocolate,” Terrafertil Chief Executive Officer David Bermeo said in an interview.

The yellow, marble-sized berries, relatively unknown