Meatless® texturates for meat and fish alternatives.
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
Food applications with Meatless® products: blended/hybrid solutions as well as 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
- Water holding capacity
- Raw Material: Rice
- Product type
- Flake Coarse
- Frozen (I.Q.F)
- x
- Dehydrated
- x
- Water holding capacity
- 2 – 3,5
- Product type
- Flake Fine
- Frozen (I.Q.F)
- x
- Dehydrated
- x
- Water holding capacity
- 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.
- Water holding capacity
- –
- Product type
- Flake Fine
- Frozen (I.Q.F)
- x
- Dehydrated
- N.A.
- Water holding capacity
- –
- 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
- Water holding capacity
- 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
- Water holding capacity
- 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.
- Water holding capacity
- –
- Applications: Tuna imitation spread/salad, tunapastry, burrito filling or minced meat.
- Raw Material: Mycoprotein and pea protein…
- Product type
- Meatless® Chicken Chunks
- Frozen (I.Q.F)
- x
- Dehydrated
- N.A.
- Water holding capacity
- –
- Applications: Chicken imitation pieces.
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 textured 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.
Meatless® concepts & recipes.
Boulet gourmet.
These meatballs are a mix of 30% certified pork and 70% plant-based ingredients packed with vegetables and fibre. The easy tasty and nutritious alternative.
Smoky beef and bean burger.
The Smoky Beef and Bean Burger is made from 70% premium beef and 30% vegetables. Less meat, More experience!
Cost reduction calculator.
Meatless® provides excellent texturate solutions for hybrid meat. Learn with this calculator how we can help to make your meat formulation more competitive.
Inspiring 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.
Proven 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.
Want to know more about Meatless®?
Check out the website of the Dutch subsidiary.
