Meat, seafood and poultry
Drive value with texture and clean label expertise
Realize your vision cost-effectively with solutions that transform texture, yield, stability and more
Want to solve the challenges of delivering meat products consumers love, plus get all the performance and labeling benefits that will make your products stand out? You don’t have to compromise—and neither do consumers.
When you work with Ingredion, you can replace fat, improve yield, enhance texture, manage moisture and improve cold temperature stability and shelf life. The clean label and texture experts in our Ingredion Idea Labs® innovation centers can collaborate with you to replace undesirable ingredients and simplify labels, or conceptualize entirely new, innovative products.
Our expertise, and broad range of starches, pulse proteins and hydrocolloid-based solutions, address your needs while providing tender, juicy and delicious meat, seafood and poultry products.
Our technical experts can help you:
- Enhance texture, firmness and bite without impacting flavor
- Increase yield and reduce in-package purge
- Simplify your label with clean label solutions
- Increase binding, structure and cohesiveness for processing ease
- Improve cold temperature stability and shelf life
Capture benefits in chopped and formed meat
Use our starches in ground and formed meat to help increase yields and maintain moisture without affecting flavor.
- Reduce fat while maintaining a meaty taste and texture
- Bind moisture and fat for consumer-preferred structure and texture
- Improve nutritional profile without compromising appearance and taste
- Increase machinability with just-right, firm textures and improved moisture control with less stickiness
Innovate with plant-based meats
Create the next generation of in-demand plant-based meat products that deliver on taste, texture, and nutrition.
- Meet consumer demand with our portfolio of differentiated plant-based proteins
- Achieve meat-like texture, nutritional benefits and performance
- Address the growing need for sustainable, non-GMO and soy-free products
- Extend shelf-life stability and improve texture and process tolerance
Cut costs and improve yield while keeping meats juicy and flavorful
Let our technical experts find the ingredient solution for you to increase product yield and improve texture.
Ready meals
Reinvent ready meals to achieve the sensory experience and labels consumers love.
Find the expertise and ingredients you need
Protein fortification
You can rely on our complete selection of plant-based protein ingredients to formulate foods & beverages consumers crave.
Discover golden potential in batters and breadings
Download our research infographic to explore trends and opportunities for creating in-demand coated products.
Featured ingredients
Let’s make your goals a reality
Agile collaboration. Deep formulation expertise. Broad portfolio of in-demand ingredients. Market research and consumer insights. Let’s make your goals a reality.