Plant-based Beverages
The booming interest in plant proteins is driven both by changes in lifestyles and a deepening awareness of the importance of health, wellness, and sustainability.
PROTEIN EQUIVALENCY
For most people, meat happens to be incredibly tasty and nutritious, and perhaps the
only way to successfully replace it is to develop a superior plant-based product that is equally good in organoleptic performance, such as taste and texture. Plant-based burgers such as those marketed by Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat, and Nestle’s Garden Gourmet, are well on their way being at par with the beef burger equivalent.
In the aftermath of the hype
Although plant meat companies like to paint a different picture, it is a fact that – except for the food service sector – sales in the US and some EU countries have decreased by double digits since 2022. Plant meat sales are stagnating, and that is quite a departure from the mega- growth numbers in the years pre- ceding 2022.
MINDER GAS, MEER ROOKWORST (Dutch)
JE KUNT ER LANG EN BREED OVER PRATEN, FEIT IS DAT VOOR DEZELFDE EURO’S HET WINKELWAGENTJE MINDER VOL IS DAN PRE-COVID EN WE TE MAKEN HEBBEN MET MONDIALE STRUBBELINGEN WAAR GEEN EIND AAN LIJKEN TE KOMEN.
BEYOND IMPOSSIBLE (DUTCH)
NA JAREN VAN NIET AFLATENDE HOSANNA EN SOMS MASSAHYSTERIE VAN DE (WOKE GETINTE) MEDIA, LIJKEN DE VEGAVLEESPRODUCTEN INMIDDELS DE WEG KWIJT. ONDANKS ALLE VOORSPELLINGEN DAT SLACHTVLEES -EN MET NAME RUNDVLEES- VERGANE GLORIE ZOU GAAN WORDEN, HEEFT DE WERELDWIJDE VEGA(N)MARKT HARDE KLAPPEN GEKREGEN. IN DE VERENIGDE STATEN ZIJN DE VERKOPEN IN 2022 ZELFS MET PAKWEG 14% INGEZAKT.
TRANSFORMATIONAL PLANT MEAT
The transformational journey from animal protein nutrition to plant protein nutrition is a long and winding road. It has taken years of trial and error to create a plant-based meat analog product that is almost indistinguishable from animal meat. The science and technology are not quite there yet, but a little progress is made every day.
SOY PROTEIN TOO BIG TO FAIL
The term “soy protein” was changed to “vegetable protein”, as a strategic move o ease the consumers’ concern and improve their negative perception of soy in the early 1990s.
FROM SPENT BARLEY GRAINS TO BEVERAGES
Spent barley grains can be seen as a game-changer as they are highly sustainable. At the end of the beer fermentation processes, the spent barley grains can get
a second life by using them for beverage formulations. Discover the authentic natural barley protein solution platform and learn how proprietary technologies and responsible sustainable sourcing can provide the best from nature. By Henk Hoogenkamp, author and protein application expert.
‘POLITIEK SCOREN OVER DE RUG VAN BOEREN IS NOT-DONE (Dutch)
Wie had ooit kunnen denken dat een simpel woord als ‘stikstof’ nog eens zou uitgroeien tot angstbeelden over armoedeval, woonellende, leefbaarheid en voeding?
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