The benefits of wheat protein

摘要

Health conscious consumers have been encouraging the development of more healthy eating options across the globe for a number of years and this has been accelerated by growing environmental and ethical concerns. One significant area of growth has been in the increasing uptake of plant-based proteins, as more consumers choose to follow a meat-reduced or meat-free diet. As a result, new meat substitute launches are predicted to have a CACR of +5.3% in Western Europe over the next five years1. With savoury dishes among the top five product categories for vegan and vegetarian claims2, Olivier Chevalier, Senior Product Manager Functional Proteins at BENEO, discusses how food manufacturers can make the most of this trend by offering improved taste and texture profiles in vegetarian recipes with textured wheat protein -one of the company's most recent ingredient developments.