Ingredients that product developers add to meat and poultry to enhance taste, quality and texture are under review as more consumers and merchandisers seek wellness-oriented options.
The growing focus by shoppers and retailers on meat and poultry with clean labels is likely to trigger changes in substances that help to enhance product quality, including gums, binders and emulsifiers.
Driven by cleaner labels: The clean-label trend has propelled the use of antioxidant ingredients and had an impact in the antimicrobial ingredient world as well.
Antimicrobial and antioxidant seasonings and spices that are particularly growing in the meat and poultry industry are ones that appeal to consumers' cleaner label concerns.
As processors attempt to provide clean or simple labels to consumers by reducing the number of ingredients in their products, gums and binders stand out on product labels.
At the Certified Angus Beef 2016 Annual Conference, The National Provisioner editor-in-chief Andy Hanacek spoke with Tom Ryan of Flocchini about developing the whole-muscle Certified Angus Beef sausage and frankfurter as well as what the reception was at the Taste Drive.