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Prepared for Jessica R. | Delivered January 14, 2020
Plant-based Burger Patties
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Goals
Obtain studies on the latest technological trends in the development of plant-based burger patties. The information will be used to identify new potential areas of innovation for a client in this space.
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Early Findings
Plant-based Burger Patties
Processes and Techniques
Based on a research study, one of the current challenges in producing plant-based meat revolves around the
process and technology
needed to duplicate the texture of real meat.
Currently,
several methods
are being explored to address this challenge.
This include improving methods to pull spherical plant proteins to transform them into string-like forms and to allow them to stick into each other like fibers.
Another method is to
grow cells
from real meat such as cow tissues.
Muscles from these tissues were then
cultured and allowed
to grow.
Meat grown this way were found to be
leaner than regular meat
.
The team is now experimenting with
fat cells culture
that can be grown and combined with the cultured muscle tissues.
The study also mentioned that using "
standard biotechnology and engineering techniques
" could improve the process to make it more cost-effective.
Added Ingredients
Majority of the meat substitutes that are currently in existence are formed from a combination of
soy and wheat gluten
that is commonly referred to as "texturized vegetable protein."
This protein substitute appears as "
thin and spongy patties
."
Brown food dye
is often added to this ingredient to make them beef-like.
Breading
were also added if the target final product is a chicken nugget.
Food scientists combine ingredients such as "
soy sauce, mushroom extracts, or yeast extracts
" to bring out the meaty umami taste.
Givaudan, one of the key players in the flavor and fragrance sector has released a series of masking solutions that can mask the off-notes tastes of plant-based proteins such as
soy, pea, fava, rice, oats, algae, and whey
.
The solution can be combined with the company's smart masking tool to
protect the taste
and the ideal texture of the products that will be made from these plant-based ingredients.
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brand recently released its refrigerated plant-based burger that uses ingredients such as "
pea protein, coconut oil, and beet powder.
"
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