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Consumers are divided on whether they need to cut back on meat. Despite some consumers’ health and environmental concerns, animal proteins are still a dietary staple, and few avoid it completely! This market must reinvent itself in a world where animal proteins, plant-based alternatives and cultivated meat co-exist. The shift away from meat is slow, leaving opportunity for manufacturers to feed the needs of meat eaters who are just looking to eat meat on a smaller scale: the flexitarians. 

Ground meat

Meet the technological challenges of the ground meat category, a category that offers lots of opportunities to cooking lovers! At the agenda: yield improvement, decrease of cooking losses, moisture management during cooking and efficient process. SWELITE™ C pea fibre and PISANE™ M9 pea protein are the best plant options to optimize costs and improve texture of ground meat. Thanks to its high emulsifying capacities, PISANE™ M9 can easily replace a part of meat while ensuring a juicy and tasty product. EXAFINE™ pea hull fibre reduces syneresis in ground fresh meat and allows freeze/thaw stability thanks to the shrinkage control at cooking.

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SWELITE™ C pea fibre is the plant solution to reduce shrinkage and cooking losses in ground meat.

 

  • Excellent water holding capacities that allow the control of water migration during shelf life and a perfect juiciness
  • Gelling properties that improve the bite of the meat
  • Water and fat binding capacity that allows the stability of the emulsion during process and on finish product

Sliced products

Ham is the perfect example of a sliced and injected product. The quality of the ingredient is particularly important as the technology is an injection. Being injectable and easy-to-disperse are 2 of the biggest challenges! COSUCRA offers plant ingredients from yellow pea to answer category needs:
SWELITE™ F pea fibre and NASTAR™ pea starch. Its fine particles size is adapted to injection equipments (needles, filters…). SWELITE™ F has a water holding capacity that allows to keep water inside the matrix during post injection treatments (as tumbling and cooking) and release water when chewing the sliced product. Thanks to optimized gelling properties, our plant fibre gives firm texture and improves mouthfeel of meat. Thanks to its particular gel strength, NASTAR™ improves sliceability of injected products. And last but not least, these pea ingredients do not have any effect on taste and colour! Don’t wait and test SWELITE™ F and NASTAR™.

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Application Savoury Sliced products (Medium)

Frankfurter sausage

Inflation continues to impact consumers’ purchasing power and leads to make food choices differently. More affordable processed meat products – like sausages – are prioritized by consumers. Price is the first-choice criteria, but it has to be a good balance with the quality of the product. One of the main challenges of that category is to make it more acceptable in terms of quality of the ingredients – ingredient list, premium and healthy ingredients naturalness… Our ranges of SWELITE™ pea fibre and NASTAR™ pea starch meet the technological needs of sausage category: good texture of the meat paste, good processability (stuffing in casing), good sliceability and elasticity, juiciness and good bite. It is particularly interesting in sterilized sausages as being a heat resistant starch.

To meet the requirements of a healthy diet and avoid unhealthy weight gain, fat management is essential. Manufacturers want to reduce the contents of saturated fat, trans-fats. Our chicory root fibre FIBRULINE™ XL provides all the benefits of a soluble dietary fibre while allowing a significant reduction of fat content in savoury productsof at least 30%. FIBRULINE™ XL mimics fat in the matrix and guarantees a perfect mouthfeel.

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Restructured meat

Bite-sized meat offers price control and a reduced meat intake for consumers who do not want to avoid completely meat. In order to offer a tasty experience to consumers, restructured meat – such as nugget – present many technological challenges for manufacturers: processability, perfect texture and color, cost reduction, optimized yield. Thanks to its ease-of-use, its high water holding and binding capacities and its good fat binding properties, SWELITE™ C is the ideal plant fibre for this application. From yellow pea, this fibre offers a naturally-sourced solution to reduce cooking losses, stabilize the nugget and increase the juiciness.

To meet the requirements of a healthy diet and avoid unhealthy weight gain, fat management is essential. It is about the quantity but also the quality of fat. World Health Organization encourages manufacturers to reformulate their products to reduce the contents of saturated fat, trans-fats. Our chicory root fibre FIBRULINE™ XL provides all the benefits of a soluble dietary fibre while allowing a significant reduction of fat content in savoury products – and in particular in restructured processed meat – of at least 30%. FIBRULINE™ XL mimics fat in the matrix and guarantees a perfect mouthfeel.

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Application Savoury Restructed meat (Medium)

Fish

The global seafood market was estimated at USD 86 billion in 2022 and should reach USD 105 billion by 2027 (source: Euromonitor). Since COVID-19, consumers increased their consumption of fish and seafood in replacement of meat.

64% of UK category users are interested in recipes using fish/shellfish as an alternative to meat or poultry (source: Mintel GNPD). Environmental and health concerns drive the market.

74% of US category buyers think it is important to buy fish/shellfish that has been certified as responsibly sourced. But inflation encourages consumers to look for lower-cost options.

To support manufacturers in their more sustainable and affordable fish journey, COSUCRA offers plant ingredients from pea – SWELITE™ pea fibre, NASTAR™ pea starch – and FIBRULINE™ chicory root fibre. For example, the high-quality gelling properties of NASTAR™ allow the formulation of egg-free surimi sticks. Our pea starch is the insurance to have egg-free surimi sticks with the same color and texture fish. Easy-to-use pea fibre, SWELITE™ offers its high water holding capacities and water/fat binding properties to all processed seafood manufacturers for juicy and affordable products.

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application Savoury Fish (Medium)

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