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

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:

  • OVERALL HEALTH:
    “It’s healthy and helps me to take good care of my body”
  • It’s better for ANIMAL WELLFARE
  • NUTRITIONAL:
    “It supports a balanced diet; it brings variety”
  • It’s better for the PLANET
  • It’s NATURAL
  • “It makes me consume more VEGETABLES
  • I like the TASTE

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:

  • OVERALL HEALTH:
    “It’s healthy and helps me to take good care of my body”
  • It’s better for ANIMAL WELLFARE
  • NUTRITIONAL:
    “It supports a balanced diet; it brings variety”
  • It’s better for the PLANET
  • It’s NATURAL
  • “It makes me consume more VEGETABLES
  • I like the TASTE

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%

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(CAGR 2017-2021)

+3.37%

Meat and Fish
Alternatives

Dairy
Alternatives

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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!

Wheat

Textured Wheat Protein

Rice plant

Textured Wheat Protein

Faba bean plant

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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Chicken analogues concept

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

Vegetarian Pasta Sauce Concept

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

Vegetarian Pasta Sauce Concept

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:

  • Vegetarian or vegan, clean label solutions with a pleasant taste
  • Our plant-based proteins make it possible to create chicken analogue recipes that are very versatile in format. These can be produced and consumed...
...in one piece (like a chicken breast)
...in small chunks on a sandwich
...or as strips in a salad

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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:

  • Our BENEO rice starch and BeneoPro FB are contributing to the whitening effect of the plant-based coffee creamer. The rice starch additionally provides that certain creamy mouthfeel people expect from a coffee creamer.
  • BENEO’s rice ingredients have a neutral taste and small granulometry, as such they blend easily with a wide variety of liquids, supporting a pleasant overall taste experience.
  • In dairy alternative beverages with a neutral pH, the high solubility of BeneoPro FB is a tremendous technical advantage. It results in a nice homogenous drink without sedimentation.
Creamy mouthfeel and white colour
Our BENEO rice starch and BeneoPro FB are contributing to the whitening effect of the plant-based coffee creamer. The rice starch additionally provides that certain creamy mouthfeel people expect from a coffee creamer.
Pleasant overall taste
BENEO’s rice ingredients have a neutral taste and small granulometry, as such they blend easily with a wide variety of liquids, supporting a pleasant overall taste experience.
Homogenous drink
In dairy alternative beverages with a neutral pH, the high solubility of BeneoPro FB is a tremendous technical advantage. It results in a nice homogenous drink without sedimentation.

Chose faba bean protein as a more sustainable solution for protein enrichment in dairy-free products.

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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.

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Raw material cultivation

  • No need for irrigation and nitrogen fertilisation
  • Providing an additional crop rotation head
  • Improvement of soil structure and natural nitrogen supply
  • Increase of biodiversity

Production

  • Use of renewable electricity
  • No need for any process water
  • Valorisation of 100 % of the raw material

Plant based product

  • In line with responsible and healthy consumer lifestyle choices
  • Contribute to a sustainable food system
Creemy Cashew Spread

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Cashew Spread

Rice Coffee Creamer

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.
Check out these concepts:

Creemy Cashew Spread Concept
Dairy-free coffee creamer concept

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:

Egg & milk replacement
Our faba bean protein (BeneoPro FB) can be used for egg replacement in muffins, while Orafti® Oligofructose is replacing milk powder to obtain a delicious plant-based solution.
Soft texture
Create high quality, gluten-free cakes thanks to an unique combination of rice flour & starches – like BENEO’s Remygel, a waxy native rice starch. It lets you bake nice tasting cakes with good volume, soft texture and a perfect colour.
More fibre, less sugar
With Orafti® Oligofructose or Orafti® Inulin, a 30% sugar reduction can be achieved in soft-baked goods such as muffins, because these prebiotic chicory root fibres easily take over the texturizing role from the replaced sugar. Apart from a reduced sugar claim, it is a perfect way to offer a source of fibre with your soft cakes and biscuits.
Plant-based muffin

Gluten-Free Baked Goods

Soft Baked Goods

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Plant-based muffin concept

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

Dairy-free chocolate concept

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.

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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.

  • Formed in 2007 from the business units Orafti, Remy and Palatinit
  • Active in more than
    80 countries
  • 7 offices
  • 5 production sites
  • Part of the global Südzucker Group

BENEO at a glance

  • Formed in 2007 from the business units Orafti, Remy and Palatinit
  • Active in more than
    80 countries
  • 7 offices
  • 5 production sites
  • Part of the global Südzucker Group
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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.

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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.

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