Innovate for the flexitarian way of living
with tasty and nutritious plant-based ingredients
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The flexitarian lifestyle is trending with 24% of the global consumer base. Nearly 1 in 2 consumers across the globe is interested in plant-based foods/beverages.
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I am a flexitarian
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Who are these consumers?
“I very often eat vegetarian, but
still eat meat and fish dishes too…”
Looking for a balance…
Is aware that diet is important for health: 70% really pays attention vs 30% eat what they want
Source: BENEO Global Plant-Based Survey 2021 (Filter: Flexitarians (N = 2905))
Why I eat veggie:
Why I eat veggie:
“I very often eat vegetarian, but
still eat meat and fish dishes too…”
Looking for a balance…
Is aware that diet is important for health: 70% really pays attention vs 30% eat what they want
Source: BENEO Global Plant-Based Survey 2021
(Filter: Flexitarians (N = 2905))
Why I eat veggie:
Not surprisingly, the industry is catching up fast and most innovations in the plant-based segment are in:
+11%
(CAGR 2017-2021)
(CAGR 2017-2021)
+7.25%
(CAGR 2017-2021)
+3.37%
Meat and Fish
Alternatives
Dairy
Alternatives
Bakery
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+3.37%
(CAGR 2017-2021)
+7.25%
(CAGR 2017-2021)
+11%
(CAGR 2017-2021)
Find solutions from our functional ingredients from rice, wheat and the faba bean. Thanks to their texturizing properties and nutritional qualities, you can innovate tasty dairy-free and meat-free products that will fly off the shelf in no time!
BENEO helps you develop tasty products that flexitarians will adore
Develop your meatless products
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BENEO helps you to offer tasty and sustainable protein options to the consumers by going plant-based. Did you know that the water footprint of milk, eggs or chicken meat is about 1.5 times larger than that of pulses? And for beef, the water footprint per gram of protein is even 6 times larger than for pulses!
Textured Wheat Protein
Textured Wheat Protein
Faba Bean Protein
Rice Protein
These product concepts are on point with the global food trends and refined based on our most recent consumer research. Make vegetarian chicken with our functional clean label rice starch or one of our other plant-based functional proteins.
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Additional Application Papers
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BENEO offers high quality wheat protein, BeneoPro VWG, that are obtained by separating proteins and starch from wheat flour. Wheat protein is the second biggest source of plant protein in meat substitute applications.
BeneoPro W-Tex is a textured wheat protein with a neutral taste, flavour and minced-meat like texture. It is a delicious and affordable source of protein suitable in a wide range of vegetarian applications, such as burgers, nuggets, sausages, ready-meals, or for partial meat replacement. It offers a real improvement in terms of texture and taste compared to other plant-based protein options in the market.
Textured Wheat Protein
RemyPro, our rice protein has a high digestibility, excellent amino acid and hypoallergenic profile and is increasingly turned to as a plant-based protein source in meal replacement mixes as well as baked goods, protein and energy bars and baby food. In addition, BENEO’s rice starch can serve as natural binder to safeguard the consistency of the filling prior to cooking in vegetarian or vegan savoury snacks (e.g. vegan dim sum).
Rice Protein
The BeneoPro FB range is our offer of faba bean protein solutions to help boost the protein content in a variety of plant-based food & drink applications, such as baked goods, protein bars, extruded cereals and dairy-alternative drinks or desserts. Our faba bean ingredients are specifically known for their high solubility and good emulsifying properties.
Faba Bean Protein
What can our BENEO ingredients offer you in vegetarian products:
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Beneo's plant-based functional ingredients cater to the flexitarian lifestyle
Develop your dairy alternatives
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Almost 3 in 4 of the consumers worldwide (73%) find it (very) important that dairy alternatives should have a similar full-bodied mouthfeel like products containing dairy. Delivering on full-body is not easy to accomplish, but with BENEO’s ingredients, recipes and technical expertise, you can come a long way to satisfy this consumer need. Mix the full body with great taste and you have a winning product – almost 1 in 2 (47%) of people globally say tastier products would encourage them to buy more dairy alternatives.
What can our BENEO ingredients offer you in plant-based dairy options:
Chose faba bean protein as a more sustainable solution for protein enrichment in dairy-free products.
Pulses help reduce greenhouse gas emissions at farm level. For example, faba beans provide nitrogen by themselves and subsequent plants so that nitrogen fertilisation is not necessary.
BENEO actively supports sustainable agriculture along the entire production chain.
Raw material cultivation
Production
Plant based product
Dreemy-Creemy
Cashew Spread
Dairy-Free
Coffee Creamer
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BeneoPro FB can be used in many plant-based products. Check out these concepts:
BeneoPro FB can be used in many plant-based products.
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Beneo's plant-based functional ingredients cater to the flexitarian lifestyle
Develop your plant-based bakery products
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Everyone loves a treat. But offering that same guilty pleasure sensation with their plant-based counterparts may not always be so easy. Yet consumers are naturally attracted to them because of a health appeal, their increased awareness or simply a more mindful purchase behaviour. Let BENEO help you to bring your product innovation the next – scrumptious – level!
What can our BENEO ingredients offer you in plant-based bakery products:
Gluten-Free Baked Goods
Soft Baked Goods
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BENEO rice starch helps fine-tune any kind of texture in gluten-free baked goods: it can bring a variety of benefits, ranging from hardness, crunchiness, brittleness, softness,...
Gluten-Free Baked Goods
Our pre-cooked waxy rice starch improves crunchiness of thin bakery products like cookies. Additionally, production losses arising from breakage during packaging can be significantly reduced. They can, moreover, improve the initial crumb softness and freshness of soft baked goods like cakes and muffins. In water-based bakery fillings, they control moisture migration and in fat-based cream fillings our regular rice starch stabilises fat and can even be applied to reduce fat and sugar content.
Soft Baked Goods
Use rice starch for enhanced texture and stability.
Who We Are
BENEO has long-term experience in developing and producing functional ingredients from natural sources for food, feed and pharmaceutical products. We employ more than 1000 people. Our worldwide sales network ensures that you can always rely on local support.
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Our Message
Our business is about contributing to good nutrition, with the ultimate goal of keeping people and animals healthy. We are fully aware of the responsibility this encompasses and use all our expertise to ensure that our products and services enable our business partners to develop even better nutrition.
Our Core Expertise
We offer plant-based functional ingredients for food, feed and pharma that help improve the nutritional and technical properties of a wide variety of products, while maintaining or even improving taste or texture. Through a unique chain of expertise, we offer our customers the basis for new product ideas and successful product launches. Our state-of-the-art production sites around the world ensure sustainable and high quality ingredients at all time.
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Meatless Products Inspiration?
Check out this paper with recipe and design concept on meat-free appetisers, like dim sum.
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Dairy Alternatives Inspiration?
Check out this paper with recipe and design concept on dairy-free protein enriched fruit smoothie.
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Plant-Based Bakery Inspiration?
Check out the recipes from our associated vegan
Chef Pieter-Jan Lint.
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Develop tasty and nutritious solutions for a Flexitarian lifestyle
BENEO helps you develop plant-inspired options that are simply delicious. Sharpen up your recipe with naturally sourced ingredients that bring out pure flavours and exciting textures. Create a taste experience consumers will thoroughly enjoy with new and inspiring dairy-free, meat-free or egg-free recipes.