Plant-based meat & fish alternatives
Deliver nutritious meat alternatives with the taste and textures consumers demand.
Consumers are hungry for meat alternatives made from sustainable, nutritious plant-based proteins. Combining deep know-how and applications expertise — and a broad portfolio of plant-based proteins and texture solutions — we can help you accelerate your path to market with the products your customers crave.
Tap into our full resources, including dedicated pilot plants, to take your idea from formulation to commercialisation while addressing your key challenges in texture, binding, nutrition and more:
- Create convincing meaty texture with just-right bite through our food system solutions
- Improve nutrition with plant-based proteins, fibre and micronutrients
- Ensure highest quality, processing ease and shelf life
Create innovative meat and meat alternatives products consumers want
Whatever your goals, find the expertise and ingredients you need to deliver great-tasting, on-trend meat and meat alternative products while optimising costs.
Alternative meat
Challenges: Developing plant-based alternative meat products with excellent texture and eating experience.
Ingredient solutions:
- Address consumer demand for plant-based protein sources
- Discover a wide range of highly functional specialty and native starches as well as our pulse protein and flour ingredients
- Develop alternative meat products with desired taste, texture and nutritional profile.
Plant-based seafood
Challenges: Developing plant-based seafood eating experiences that are at the forefront of the evolving plant-based market
Ingredient solutions:
- Create a plant-based seafood patty that provides the texture & tenderness of a traditional seafood patty.
- Create prawns, calamari, fishcake, and seafood patties with our all-in-one stabiliser systems.
Emulsified meat alternatives
Challenges: As with meat itself, meat alternatives need to achieve the perfect balance of emulsion stability, texture, yield improvement and taste in emulsified meat alternatives.
Ingredient solutions:
- Learn how using starches will improve the firmness and chew without interfering with flavour
- Develop products with increased shelf life
- Improve overall texture, cutability and spreadability by reducing moisture loss and improving texture consistency
- Achieve a firmer bite for better sensory characteristics and appearance.
Ground and formed plant-based nuggets and patties
Challenges: Achieving optimal moisture and fat binding while maintaining shape and structure of the product.
Ingredient solutions:
- Discover a wide range of starches that bind the moisture and fat in your products to provide structure and texture that consumers want
- Reduce fat and improve the nutritional profile of products without compromising on appearance and taste
- Improve the processability and machinability of your products.
Discover our formulations for plant-based meat & seafood alternatives
Plant-based Lamb Kofta
Plant-based Prawns
Functionality
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Formats: Minced meat, burger patties, dumpling filling and meatballs
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Formats: Sausage, luncheon meat and ham
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Formats: Shrimp, calamari, fishcake and seafood patties
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SIMPLISTICA® stabiliser systems and VITESSENCE® Pulse 1853-51 protein provides protein fortification qualities to plant-based all purpose meat applications
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SIMPLISTICA® stabiliser systems support the creation of various textures and provide product stability during and post-processing, delivering ideal textures and allowing clients to bring their products to market with speed.
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Our all-in-one SIMPLISTICA® stabiliser systems are designed to mimic the texture of real seafood, with ideal shapes and structures that support an enjoyable plant-based eating experience.
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Report: Be part of the plant-based revolution
With demand for delicious plant-based food and drink increasing, there is a prime opportunity to tap in and deliver ROI for your business. Are you ready?
The power of flexitarians: how plant-based solutions address affordability, sustainability, and nutrition
Looking to coat your plant-based nuggets and seafood?
We have the perfect ingredients for your coating systems to provide the right texture & extra crunch to lift your coated plant-based product to the next level.
Making it plant possible
Discover innovation that allow you to deliver plant-based products that still deliver the tastes and textures consumers expect
VITESSENCE® Pulse Protein Isolates
Replace soy, wheat and animal proteins with pea protein isolates containing 80-85% plant protein on a dry basis to enable protein claims in foods and beverages.
Concept recipes
Ingredion’s new recipe innovations your guided steps to start creating products with your existing machinery. So that you can deliver plant-based products that help your consumers save the planet, one bite at a time.
Contact the Ingredion plant-based meat experts today
Agile collaboration. Deep formulation expertise. Broad portfolio of on-trend ingredients. Market research and consumer insights. Let's make your goal a reality.