White or Natural Bagasse Tableware: What Is the Difference?

This is the question that decides a good number of first orders, so it is worth answering plainly:
unbleached and white bagasse tableware perform identically. The difference is the
shade, and how the fibre is bleached to get there.

The short version

Natural / unbleached	The fibre’s own colour — a light brown. Reads immediately as a recycled or plant-based material.
White	Chlorine-free bleached. Presents food neutrally and suits retail and private-label programmes.
Performance	Identical: heat resistance, oil and water resistance, freezing, composting and certification.

Why the bleaching method is the question that matters

“Bleached” on its own tells you nothing about the process. Older bleaching methods used chlorine,
which is where the concern about residues and by-products came from. Our white tableware is
chlorine-free bleached — and the natural option avoids the bleaching step
altogether.

Both options are PFAS-free and both are compostable. The certifications we hold — FDA, BPI, LFGB,
EN13432 and OK Compost — apply to our products, not to one colour of them.

Which one to specify

• Choose natural when the material story is part of your brand — takeaway, events,
  cafés and foodservice where the brown shade signals “compostable” without a label.
• Choose white when the food should be the visual focus, or when a retail or
  private-label programme needs a neutral background for printing and packaging.

Buyers in markets with strong eco-positioning tend to take natural; buyers supplying retail and
branded chains often take white. There is no wrong answer — it is a market decision.

What does not change

Everything that affects the buying decision: the dimensions on each product page, the packing
figures, the container loading, the heat range of about 100–120 °C with freezer use to about −20 to
−25 °C, and the composting times of about 45–90 days commercially and 90–180 days at home. Same
product, different shade.

Both shades, across the range

Available across bowls & cups,
plates,
trays,
clamshells,
lids and cutlery and
jumbo rolls — see the
collections page.

Next step

Tell us the market and the model, and we will confirm what we stock in each shade.

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Send us the model, the quantity and your destination port and our sales team will reply with pricing, packing details and container loading for your market.

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