Packaging
The packaging of a food product is primarily intended to protect the shelf life of the product and to ensure product safety. Packaging also plays a significant role in reducing food waste.
Where are Apetit products packaged?
Apetit uses mainly plastics and paperboards as product packaging materials. In addition, glass is used in Neito rapeseed oil bottles. Wood is used in the palletised transport of product batches.
Apetit has changed during 2025 all the packaging materials of Apetit products sold through retail channels to recyclable. Packaging labelling has also been developed, particularly with regard to recycling instructions, in connection with the renewal of packaging labelling.
Apetit reports the amounts of packaging material it puts out into the market in accordance with the EU Packaging Directive and pays recovery fees for the organisation of material recycling.
During 2025
All the packaging materials of Apetit products sold through retail channels has been chaged to recyclable.
Cardboard
Laminated plastics
PE plastic
Plastic trays
Cardboard
All Apetit frozen soups, vegetable patties, and fish patties are packaged in cardboard. The cardboard packaging can be sorted for cardboard recycling according to the instructions on the package, rinsed and flattened if necessary. With regard to paperboard packaging, Apetit has switched to using only PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) certified paperboard during 2025.
Plastics
Plastic is widely used in packaging: for example, all Apetit frozen vegetables are packed in plastic. All plastic packaging used for Apetit products should be sorted for plastic recycling.
Laminated plastics
Laminated plastic film is a common, sturdy packaging material. Many of Apetit’s vegetable mixes as well as its Kasvisjauhis and fish products are packed in laminated packaging. Laminated packaging consists of two different plastic layers. Since 2025, Apetit has used laminates made solely of polyethylene (PE), making them recyclable.
PE plastic
PE film is also a common plastic material familiar from food packaging. Among Apetit products, for example the classic Pea–Sweetcorn–Paprika mix is packed in PE film. Unlike laminated film, it contains only one type of plastic, which makes it suitable for plastic recycling.
Plastic trays
Apetit mashed potato products are packed in plastic trays with a lid and a cardboard label. The packaging should be sorted according to the recycling instructions found on the side: the plastic tray is sorted into plastic recycling and the cardboard label with the lid into cardboard recycling.
Apeti Rapeseed oil bottles
Apetit Kotimainen Rapeseed Oils are packaged in plastic bottles, and Neito rapeseed oils in glass bottles. The plastic Apetit oil bottles made of PET plastic can be sorted into plastic recycling together with their caps.
The packaging of Apetit Kotimainen Rapeseed Oil was renewed in connection with the introduction of a new bottling line at Apetit’s vegetable oil plant in Kantvik. Thanks to the new bottling line, significantly less plastic is used in the oil bottles.
The glass part of Neito rapeseed oil bottles should be sorted into glass recycling. The metal cap, in turn, can be sorted into metal recycling.