Manufacturing challenges faced by producers of plant-based foods and the role of mixing equipment

Summary

A whitepaper from amixon GmbH highlights the rapid growth of plant-based foods and the manufacturing challenges in creating meat-like textures using fibers, textured vegetable proteins, and other ingredients. It emphasizes the critical role of advanced mixing technologies—covering wetting, agglomerating, moistening, dehumidifying, vacuum drying, and reacting—in ensuring hygiene, efficiency, and product quality. The paper addresses shifting consumer behavior, investment trends, production and procurement hurdles, scaling, the lack of vegan standards, new product development, and contamination prevention.

Nature offers raw materials in abundance. High-quality fibres can also be obtained from fruit peels and seeds. Fibres help to form meat-like textures.

"Beyond Meat" has become a buzzword. Textured vegetable proteins, tofu, seitan, stabilisers and spices are becoming tasty meat substitutes.

From vegan start-ups to some of the most established names in meat processing, food industry businesses of every ilk are investing in the production of plant-based foods resembling animal proteins. But satisfying this rising demand for plant-based products is not without its challenges.

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This whitepaper from amixon GmbH aims to provide insights into the manufacturing challenges faced by producers of plant-based foods and the role of mixing equipment in meeting the demands of this quickly growing market sector.

Mixing, wetting, agglomerating, moistening, vacuum drying or reacting

amixon® industrial mixers are indispensable in the production of plant-based foods. Our team will support you in developing new product recipes. This way, you can reliably meet hygiene standards at all times and design your processes with maximum efficiency and economy.

amixon® is at your side for mixing and related processes: wetting, agglomerating, dehumidifying, vacuum drying or reacting, ...

These topics await you:

Changing consumer behaviour
Investment trends
Challenges for production and procurement
Economical scaling of production
Lack of industry-wide standards for vegan requirements
Mixing plants and product quality
Development of new plant-based foods
Reliably avoiding contamination

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Is your production line ready for the plant-based future of food?

From vegan start-ups to some of the most established names in meat processing, food industry businesses of every ilk are investing in the production of plant-based foods resembling animal proteins. But satisfying this rising demand for plant-based products is not without its challenges.

Mixing, wetting, agglomerating, moistening, vacuum drying or reacting