Meat & meat substitutes
Meat & meat substitutes
At Lactosan, our Cheese Powders, made from pure natural cheese, are the perfect ingredient to enhance the quality of meat and meat substitute products. We have been researching the properties of Cheese Powder to see how they can augment or enhance flavours, improve umami and kokumi and even reduce the need for additives, such as monosodium glutamate (MSG). Let us help you create exciting new products that meet specific flavour profiles and support your labelling requirements.
Perfect for meat or meat substitutes
As well as ensuring a delicious flavour, our Cheese Powders can be used to help improve juiciness in many product types, for example, fermented and emulsified sausages, meatballs and brines for injections and/or tumbling.
We are working with international universities to learn how Cheese Powders can give meat substitutes a more realistic “meaty” taste and to improve the flavour of added spices. This also enables us to offer more detailed information on the qualities of Lactosan’s Cheese Powders to help you satisfy your production and marketing needs.
Market trends
- Meat is gradually losing its place as a center-of-plate item. Instead, meals are becoming more veg-centric, with premium protein ingredients added for flavour, apart from their protein content. This is a clear manifestation of the flexitarian trend, which is still going strong.
- As consumers add more protein to their diets, they are reaching for meat snacks to fill the gap between meals. In some cases, that snack is becoming a meal.
- Clean label is being and will be the future debating point in meat, fish and seafood alternatives or substitutes. At present, labels of most of these products contain many ingredients and plenty of information but “clean.” This aspect needs to be addressed as the meat substitute category becomes more crowded and competitive.
- In the “free from...” trend, consumers’ preferences and needs are diversifying like never before, and this opens a range of possibilities for novel meat substitute alternatives. Once lab-grown meat reaches a viable price point, it will incorporate a whole new element to the debate of what it means to be a vegetarian. And while strict vegetarians are likely to reject this type of offering, it stands a reasonable chance of being accepted by “flexitarians”.
In Latin America, cheese is one of the prominent flavors in the launches of meat and meat substitutes and is showing growth.
Let's make tastier food!
Our experts have been working with customers worldwide to improve their meat and meat substitute applications. For example, we recently supported a company which, by using Lactosan Cheese Powder, achieved a distinctive blue cheese flavour for their sausages. We also helped another business to enhance umami and overall flavour of frozen meatballs, adding extra juiciness and without using artificial ingredients.
Expertise at your service
At Lactosan, we are constantly working with leading universities and research and innovation centers to find better ways in which our Cheese Powder can help to solve your challenges. Contact us today to find out what our innovative approach and extensive product portfolio can do for you.
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