Meat has nourished people for generations, offering essential nutrients, great taste, and culinary versatility. Consumers still love meat, but their expectations are growing. They want products that taste amazing, support a healthy lifestyle, and align with their wallet and values.
At Essentia, we are committed to inject more joy and excitement into the meat category with functional protein solutions that enhance the qualities consumers value most.
Delicious
Enhance desired properties such as texture, juiciness, taste, and product appearance.
Cost efficient
Gain a competitive edge by cutting costs and boosting yield while maintaining quality.
Healthy
Increase the nutritional value with clean label ingredients that add protein and reduce fat.
Sustainable
Meat replacement and extension also translates into significant carbon footprint reductions.
Use Essentia’s functional protein solutions to enhance the properties valued by consumers. Delicious
Ensuring consistently delicious meat products
Consumers expect juicy, flavorful, and visually appealing meat products with the right texture, shape, and color. They have more choices than ever, putting strain on the meat industry to deliver on the properties most appreciated. Delivering superior taste, texture, and appearance increases the likelihood of selection – driving preference and loyalty.
Work with our ingredient experts to optimize the key qualities that make meat products even more enjoyable, satisfying, and appealing to modern consumers. We help you add more excitement into every bite.
Texture
The gelling properties of our functional protein solutions create a firm, satisfying bite in many types of processed meats. Additionally, they provide the elasticity and cohesiveness that consumers appreciate.
Shape
Functional protein solutions add important stability and consistency to processed meat.
Ensuring that each piece looks and feels the way consumers expect, is key to winning their preference.
Juiciness
Retaining more water in your meat products not only increases yield but also enhances sensory qualities.
Meat perceived as juicy is often associated with higher quality.
Taste
Taste is the top reason consumers choose meat over other proteins. Our bone-derived stocks deepen flavor, while selected functional proteins also enhance the richness of meat.
Color
A natural, vibrant color in meat signals freshness, quality, and appetizing appeal to consumers.
AProRed™ provides a natural color that builds trust and triggers positive expectations.
Purge reduction
The water-binding effect helps maintain product integrity, preventing unpleasant liquid buildup in the packaging.
With better shelf appeal, we help you ensure that your meat look as good as it tastes.
Cost efficient
Drives better margins for meat processors while creating the opportunity to make nutritious, high-quality meat products more affordable for consumers.
Slicing costs without compromising on quality
Keeping production costs down not only strengthens margins but also makes high-quality meat products more accessible to budget-conscious consumers who may struggle to afford them.
Our functional protein solutions allow you to optimize raw material use, improve yields, and enhance process efficiency. By leveraging smart formulation strategies, you can continue to meet consumer expectations while maintaining profitability in an ever-changing and highly competitive market.
Meat replacement
A cost-effective way to reduce raw material expenses by 5-20% while maintaining product quality.
Meat extension
Achieve your target yield – whether high or low – with our versatile ingredient range.
Restructuring
Efficiently turn lower-cost meat cuts into delicious deli options.
Slicing yield
Enhanced firmness and cohesiveness enable thinner slices and minimize slicing waste.
Reduce cook loss
Better water retention reduces cook loss, maximizing final yield.
Faster drying time
Improved moisture control in dried and fermented meats accelerates drying without compromising quality.
No need for cold storage
Unlike meat, our functional proteins can be stored and handled at ambient temperatures.
Healthy
By aligning with modern health trends, meat remains a nutritious and appealing choice for today’s consumers.
Cleaner, leaner, and protein-packed
Health is the leading trend across all food categories including meat and poultry. Consumers are increasingly looking for products that support their well-being, whether through cleaner labels, higher protein content, or reduced fat.
Essentia ingredients offer label-friendly alternatives to artificial additives and E-numbers, support protein enrichment for more nutritious products, and enable fat reduction by partially replacing or extending meat with protein and water.
Clean label
Transparency and health concerns are driving demand for clean label meat products. Retailer preferences are thus shifting toward cleaner formulations, making it essential to adapt.
High in protein
“High in protein” has become a key selling point on meat packaging. While meat is naturally a great protein source, processors are now fortifying products to differentiate from competitors.
Reduced fat
Whether using Essentia’s functional proteins to replace meat, extend yield through injection, or restructuring, the overall fat content decreases – providing a leaner option.
Sustainable
Sustainability is a growing priority in the meat industry, and functional proteins offer a smart way to reduce environmental impact.
Move closer to your sustainability goals
At Essentia, sustainability starts with circularity. We upcycle animal by-products into high-quality, clean label ingredients. Through minimal processing, we transform these basic raw materials into functional protein solutions that add value across a wide range of meat products. This approach not only reduces waste but also makes better use of existing resources, supporting a more sustainable and responsible meat supply chain.
Our functional protein solutions also serve as enablers for reducing Scope 3 emissions. By partially replacing meat with protein and water, processors can significantly lower the carbon footprint of their final products.
These dry powder ingredients require less energy to transport and store compared to raw meat, and their lower CO₂e impact contributes directly to more climate-friendly formulations – helping you move closer to your sustainability goals without compromising on quality or performance.
Enabling Scope 3 reductions
By replacing a portion of the meat with our functional proteins and water, you can reduce the overall carbon emissions associated with purchased goods.
Unlike meat, our ingredients are shelf-stable powders that require no refrigeration, take up less space, and are easier to handle. This means fewer emissions from transport and warehousing, contributing further to the reduction of your Scope 3 footprint.
Whether used in meat replacement, extension, or restructuring, our solutions help align your products with climate targets and consumer expectations.
