Plant-based texturates for meat and fish alternatives | Meatless®
The worldwide increase in consumers meat consumption in combination with a growing global population, opens the door to the food industry to help reduce the volume of animal-based products in the average consumer diet. Plant-based ingredients can play an important role in this objective.
The Meatless® range of plant-based texturates marries well with BENEO’s functional proteins family, as it is a unique portfolio of solutions derived from different raw materials. Bringing this range under the BENEO umbrella offers our customers an even broader variety and greater flexibility to support their development of meat and fish alternatives. Meatless® ingredients are sustainable by design, with the production processes achieving a low carbon footprint.
Technical benefits:
- Meat-like texture
- Good water holding capacity and heat stability
- White colour
- Clean taste
- Flexible and easily scalable technology
- Low processing (low carbon footprint)
- Ready-to-use
Nutritional benefits:
- Hypo-allergenic
- Free-from
Blended/hybrid solutions for vegan or veggie imitations of…
- Burgers
- Sausages
- Minced meat
- Fish burgers
- Fish sticks
- Tuna
- Chicken chunks
- Pizza toppings
- Salad spreads
- Ready meals
Alongside the nutritional plant-based hybrid solutions, we offer several interesting products for the snack industry (vegan nuggets, vegan finger food). Thanks to the good water holding capacity of our ingredients, these snacks can be easily deep-fried in liquid fat without losing moisture. But also in pizza toppings, we can mimic minced meat or Meatless® Tjoena flakes. This product is ready to use and can therefore be smoothly implemented in existing production systems.
Texturizing flakes from natural resources
The Meatless® portfolio comprises of coarse and fine flakes from different raw materials; i.e., rice, faba beans, wheat and others (Tjoena). Further flexibility comes in their format, being either frozen or dehydrated, with the latter making long distance deliveries possible.
- Product type
- Frozen (I.Q.F)
- Dehydrated
- W.H.C*
- Raw Material: Rice
- Product type
- Flake Coarse
- Frozen (I.Q.F)
- x
- Dehydrated
- x
- W.H.C*
- 2 – 3,5
- Product type
- Flake Fine
- Frozen (I.Q.F)
- x
- Dehydrated
- x
- W.H.C*
- 2 – 3,5
- Applications:
Vegan (or hybrid) fish applications, emulsions or fat replacer in meat applications
- Raw Material: Wheat
- Product type
- Flake brown Coarse
- Frozen (I.Q.F)
- x
- Dehydrated
- N.A.
- W.H.C*
- –
- Product type
- Flake Fine
- Frozen (I.Q.F)
- x
- Dehydrated
- N.A.
- W.H.C*
- –
- Applications:
Vegan (or hybrid) products like burgers, sausages, lunchmeat or minced meat
- Raw Material: Faba Beans
- Product type
- Flake Coarse
- Frozen (I.Q.F)
- x
- Dehydrated
- x
- W.H.C*
- 2 – 3,5
- Product type
- Flake Coarse Brown
- Frozen (I.Q.F)
- x
- Dehydrated
- N.A.
- W.H.C*
- 2 – 3,5
- Product type
- Flake Fine
- Frozen (I.Q.F)
- x
- Dehydrated
- x
- W.H.C*
- 2 – 3,5
- Applications:
Vegan (or hybrid) products like burgers, sausages, lunchmeat or minced meat
- Raw Material: protein from pea, rice, faba bean & quinoa
- Product type
- Tjoena**
- Frozen (I.Q.F)
- x
- Dehydrated
- N/A
- W.H.C*
- –
- Applications:
Tuns imitation spread/salad, tunapastry, burrito filling or minced meat.
- Raw Material: Mycroprotein, Pea protein…
- Product type
- Chicken Chunks
- Frozen (I.Q.F)
- –
- Dehydrated
- –
- W.H.C*
- –
- Applications:
Chicken imitation pieces
*W.H.C.: Water holding capacity
**Tjoena = pea protein, rice protein, faba bean protein, quinoa protein flour
Future thinking: Meatless® fish analogues and hybrid meats
As European leader in texturates for white fish imitations, Meatless® rice flakes are a first on the market. These Meatless® rice flakes are used to give a fish-like texture and impressive white fish colour. The meatless® vegan binder improves the cohesiveness of the mass and bite in the final product, which is freeze/thaw stable. Depending on the particle size of the flakes, the inside structure of the product can be adjusted to choice – a white colour and clean taste can easily be obtained. Even nutrition claims like “low fat” and “source of fibre” are possible (dependent on local legislation).
Also the Meatless® Tjoena solutions bring a next level solution to the plant-based fish industry. These tuna-like flakes are based on rice and quinoa combined with pea and faba to deliver a realistic mouthfeel.
With beef prices going up, hybrid burgers bring a solution to the market, both for producer as for the consumer who gets more plant-based intake. BENEO’s Technology Center has developed several cost-efficient hybrid recipes. With a combination of BENEO’s wheat protein and our Meatless® range, we can help the food industry to reduce costs in a simple way and still offer consumers a delicious and varied meal.
In-depth information about Meatless® ingredient
Meatless® portfolio
Meatless® texturate solutions cater to flexitarian, vegetarian, and vegan diets. With a focus on texture and taste, these solutions empower food innovators to create delicious alternatives that meet diverse dietary preferences.
Meatless® from concept to plate
Inspiring Meatless® product concepts
Inspiring ideas with Meatless® texturates offer new angles of product positioning towards consumers & market insights. These solutions are substantiated by extensive practical experience and achieved with standard processing equipment and ready-to-use products.
Recipes with Meatless® texturates
Concepts are worked out by a team of dedicated food application technologists into concrete recipes that we share with you after extensive testing on lab. Crafting innovative recipes involves a dedicated team of food application technologists who refine concepts through meticulous testing.
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