Savoury ingredients for food – fat-reduced, creamy and natural.

Convenience and health are not naturally associated with wholesome, balanced or natural meals. In the savoury segment the number of free-from and all-natural claims has picked up. The wide appeal of plant-based formulations is due to its more healthful image. Over 60% of consumers worldwide say the impact of their food on health and wellbeing always influences their purchasing behaviour.

BENEO’s natural, functional ingredients offer endless opportunities for new and good recipes. Formulate gluten-free pizzas, fibre-rich noodles, fat- or sugar-reduced sauces or vegan burgers with a juicy bite. Enhance processing, acid or thaw stability in soups and sauces and improve yield on meat preparations.

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Batters and breadings     Emulsified meat     Meat alternatives     Sauces     Soups     Tumbled or injected meat

Batters and breadings.

• Improve crispiness of your shrimp and chicken nuggets or croquettes by using rice flour and starches in the batter or coating.
• Rice starch improves adhesion of batters and predusters.

Emulsified meat.

• Reduce fat and enhance creaminess and overall mouthfeel in emulsified meat such as liver pâtés, salami and frankfurter sausages with Orafti® Inulin, a good source of prebiotic fibre.
• Native rice starch and flour help maintain and bring out flavour and act as a natural texturiser in full-fat and reduced-fat sausages and pâté.

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Meat alternatives.

• Create tasty & satiating vegetarian products such as burgers, nuggets & sausages with BENEOPro W-Tex in combination with Orafti® Inulin or rice starch.
• After hydration, our textured wheat protein, BENEOPro W-Tex forms a fibrous and spongy matrix, very similar to that of ground (minced) meat in terms of chewiness & texture and can therefore be used as meat alternative. It is an excellent source of protein and allows for simple, transparent ingredient labels.
• Our precooked rice starch is suitable for cold-water binding and easy shaping of vegetarian burgers or nuggets.
• Orafti® Inulin can be used as a source of fibre in veggie products such as pasta sauce and burgers.

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Sauces.

• Improve mouthfeel of sugar-reduced sauces like oyster sauce with Orafti® Inulin, while increasing fibre content.
• Our native rice starch Remypure can be used as clean label texturiser to create soft and creamy textures and to add gloss to your sauces and dressings. It is a highly stable ingredient that withstands extreme process conditions such as high shear, high temperature & low pH and has a good freeze-thaw stability.
• Reduce fat in ranches and dips with clean label rice starch while safeguarding a full, rich flavour.
• Palatinose™ can be adopted as a sugar replacer in sauces such as ketchup to help reduce blood sugar response.

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Soups.

• Make creamy, thick soups and instant soups with extra fibre with Orafti® Inulin.
• Our rice starch is a highly stable texturiser that can be applied to add creaminess, body and gloss to soup. It is a highly stable ingredient that withstands process, acid and freeze-thaw stability. Organic rice starch available.
• Palatinose™ adds a mild sweetness and supports reduced blood glucose levels and sustained energy in (instant) soups.

Tumbled or injected meat.

• Our waxy and clean label rice starch dispose of a number of features benefitting the taste, texture and colour of tumbled or injected chicken, ham,… Its functional properties improve cooking and hence total yield and make it easier to produce juicier chicken and ham fillets with a bigger margin.

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