AMSA has announced that Ms. Vicki Deyarmond and Mr. Edward Moore will be the featured speakers in the symposium entitled “Processed Meats vs. Alternative Proteins - New Technologies Focus” on Wednesday, August 18, 2021, during the 74th AMSA Reciprocal Meat Conference (RMC) hybrid meeting. This session will be sponsored by Sealed Air's Cryovac.
Vicki Deyarmond, Senior Application Specialist at International Flavors and Fragrances, will start out this session speaking about “Ingredient Technologies For Plant-Based Meat Applications.” When formulating plant-based meat alternatives it can be challenging to bring together the ideal combination of functional ingredients to build a product that has all the eating qualities of its real meat counterpart. The components used will help optimize the necessary sensory attributes and nutritional profiles needed. These attributes include texture, binding, juiciness, mouthfeel, color, flavor, and shelf life, in addition to targeted fat and protein content. There are many new and existing ingredient options in the formulator’s toolkit to solve this challenge.