Two St. Louis-Based Food Innovators Partner to Introduce Heart-Healthy Cooking Oil into FoodService Applications, Forming More Sustainable Seed-to-Shopper Supply Chain

Schnuck Markets, Inc. selects Benson Hill’s Veri™ brand cooking oil, sourced from Midwest-grown, proprietary soybeans for use in its prepared foods

ST. LOUIS, MO – July 27, 2022 – Benson Hill, Inc. (NYSE: BHIL, the “Company” or “Benson Hill”), a food tech company unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants, has signed a supplier agreement with Schnuck Markets, Inc. to roll out Veri™ brand cooking oil for use in prepared foods in the grocery chain’s more than 100 stores across Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. As part of the grocery retailer’s initiative to find more local, more sustainable suppliers, Schnucks will use Benson Hill’s Midwest-grown soybean oil across a variety of foodservice applications.