The beer brewing industry has made significant strides in upcycling spent grains into valuable protein ingredients. What matters is discovering natural barley protein application opportunities and proprietary technologies that are responsible for sustainable sourcing while amplifying the best from nature, taste, nutrition, and health. Contributed by Henk Hoogenkamp.
People, plants, animals, soil, water, sunshine, and eco-systems are all connected to food. New thinking will be necessary to allow the global food industry to transform and revolutionize the way food is produced by creating an environment-friendly supply chain that takes no more than what planet Earth can give.
Lezers van mijn columns vinden mijn visies vaak ‘zwart-wit’. Dat is een bewuste keuze. Immers, een zwart-wit-visie stemt tot nadenken en uiteindelijk wordt de mengkleur toch weer grijs. De gulden middenweg zogezegd, hetgeen uiteindelijk de bedoeling is.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.