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German company Hydrosol will showcase a vegetable-based cream developed with innovative alt protein solutions at Fi Europe 2023.

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Hydrosol to Showcase Solutions for High Whipping Volume Vegetable Cream at Fi Europe 2023

October 5, 2023

German company Hydrosol will showcase a vegetable-based cream developed with its innovative solutions for the F&B industry at Fi Europe 2023. Hydrosol, part of the Stern-Wywiol Gruppe and sister company of Planteneers, offers tailored stabilizing and texturizing systems for a range of food products, including dairy-free cream. The company’s Stabimuls ICR system, including Stabimuls Vega, enables manufacturers to create vegan creams with enhanced whipping volumes and more robust foam structures. According to the company, the systems are ideal for creating “outstanding” vegetable creams for cakes, fruits, desserts, ice cream, sauces, soups, and casseroles. Among the advantages, the company mentions that whipping volumes can be adjusted between 100 and 400% and that the resulting creams are freeze-thaw-stable, expanding their potential for culinary preparations. Additionally, Hydrosol’s solutions offer cooking creams …

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Hydrosol Offers Solutions for the Coming Hybrid Products, Dives into Cultivated Meat Trends

September 5, 2023September 1, 2023

Hydrosol, a developer and international supplier of food stabilizers and texturing systems for meat, dairy, and alt proteins, is presenting its product development services and ingredient solutions to improve the functional properties of hybrid products. According to Hydrosol, due to cost considerations, cultivated meat companies will introduce products made with a mix of cultivated and plant proteins to the market first. However, these hybrid products must satisfy consumers’ expectations by replicating the taste and experience of traditional meat. Hydrosol argues that closely resembling the texture, fibrousness, frying behavior, and mouthfeel of conventional meat is crucial for consumer acceptance of cultivated meat and thus, these hybrid products. Consumer acceptance According to Katharina Schäfer, team lead product management at Hydrosol, consumer acceptance is the biggest challenge in …

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Planteneers and Hydrosol Advice: Embrace Tech to Overcome Future Food Challenges

June 9, 2023

With consolidated revenues of 764 million euros last year, the Hamburg Stern-Wywiol Gruppe, a global leader in the food and feed ingredients industry, again enjoyed double-digit growth. The growth drivers in the group are its Planteneers and Hydrosol subsidiaries, said the group in a statement. Planteneers develops and produces custom system solutions for plant-based alternatives to meat, sausage, and fish products, as well as cheese, dairy products, and deli foods. Hydrosol specialises in stabilising and texturing systems for animal foods. Factors for success Key factors for the success of the companies are intense research, the development of innovative technologies, and closeness to customers and markets, says the group. “Our innovations are precisely tuned to individual customer requirements,” commented Dr. Matthias Moser, MD of the Food Ingredients …

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Planteneers: “In the Area of Plant-Based Alternatives, Products Are Always Evolving”

December 20, 2022

Founded in September 2020, Planteneers GmbH, a sister company of Hydrosol and part of the Stern-Wywiol Gruppe, specialises in customised functional and texturisation systems for plant-based alternative products. Planteneers’ expertise covers a range of applications, developing raw materials and textures for plant-based meat, dairy and deli alternatives for manufacturers in the food industry worldwide. In this year in review, Dr Dorotea Pein, Head of Product Management at Planteneers, tells us about the highlights and challenges of 2022 and gives an outlook for the coming year. What innovations were launched in 2022? The year was characterized by the high interest of manufacturers in our fish alternatives and the new products that came onto the market. Fish alternatives are a segment that is particularly suitable for replacement …

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Planteneers Reveals Strategy to Work With Meat Industry For Increased Hybrid Products

July 1, 2022

Planteneers reveals plans to deal with the ongoing trend for plant-based alternatives and avoid a cannibalization effect. By getting the meat industry on board to create hybrid products containing less meat, a more ethical revenue stream is established for manufacturers, it says. Hybrid products offer a perfect compromise, according to the German producer, offering great opportunities for flexitarians and consumers who are looking to reduce their meat intake step by step. In response, Planteneers has created novel stabilizing methods for this category that are able to cut the animal content in the finished product in half. “The meat industry is reinventing itself. We need to meet consumer expectations in modern plant-based nutrition, while avoiding a cannibalization effect,” explains Planteneers Product Manager Florian Bark. “Walking this …

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Hydrosol and Planteneers at IFFA 2022: Meat or Plant-Based? The Solution in Between

May 5, 2022

Plant-based is more and more in focus, even at the international meat trade fair IFFA. Plant-based alternatives remain a growth segment in the industrialized western nations. At the same time, market researchers project a continued worldwide rise in meat consumption. Florian Bark, Product Manager of the sister companies Planteneers and Hydrosol, explains how the industry can profit from both of these trends. As an expert in plant-based foods, Planteneers is exhibiting at the IFFA for the first time, together with sister company Hydrosol, whose focus is on meat and sausage products. How do they fit together? For a long time we’ve been seeing that the main vendors of plant-based meat and sausage alternatives are by no means just start-ups, but traditional meat producers. This makes …

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Planteneers & Hydrosol to Present New Plant-Based Concepts for the Meat Industry

March 28, 2022

German food tech Planteneers joins with Hydrosol to offer plant-based and hybrid solutions for meat companies looking to diversify into alt protein. As the alt protein boom shows little sign of slowing down, Planteneers and Hydrosol offer the new PLUSmulson series stabilizing system for meat manufacturers aiming to move into the plant-based movement. Planteneers and Hydrosol, sister companies within the Stern-Wywiol Gruppe, are offering the meat industry product concepts that open up new potential in many different markets. This will enable manufacturers to react to current challenges, trends, and consumer wishes by reducing the meat content in burger patties, nuggets, or sausages, and replacing it with plant ingredients. The companies claim the system is suitable for many different products and simple to integrate into existing …

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Planteneers: “We Empower the World With Delicious Plant-Based Food Solutions to Feed Everyone Sustainably”

February 4, 2021

Planteneers is a young startup formed last Autumn when Hamburg’s Stern-Wywiol Gruppe turned the plant-based unit of its subsidiary Hydrosol into a separate company. Headquartered in Ahrensburg, Germany, the company produces custom system solutions for plant-based alternatives to meat, sausage and fish products, as well as cheese, dairy products and deli foods.

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Hydrosol’s Plant-Based Unit Becomes Autonomous Company, Introduces Planteneers

November 27, 2020October 1, 2020

Germany’s Hydrosol, a specialist for stabilising and texturing systems, founded its Plant-Based Competence Center at the end of last year and now introduces Planteneers, whose focus is on plant-based alternatives to meat, sausage and fish products, dairy products and deli foods, as well as hybrid products.

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Hydrosol Says Seafood Alternatives are “Just a Step Away From Going Mainstream”

July 17, 2020

German company Hydrosol has stated in a press release that seafood alternatives are “plant-based stars for 2020”. Following the overall current market success of plant-based alternatives to meat, sausages and dairy products, the time has come to initiate the next plant-based revolution and introduce more seafood alternatives to the market.

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Hydrosol’s New Cooperation With All Organic Treasures Creates New Possibilities for Meat Alternatives

May 5, 2020

Hydrosol, a specialist for stabilising and texturing systems, is now working with raw materials supplier All Organic Treasures (AOT) for exclusive texturates with structure similar to muscle tissue, utilising allergen- and GMO-free sources including upcycled proteins obtained as a by-product of sunflower oil manufacture.

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Hydrosol Says in “20 Years Plant-Based Eating Will Be Part of Our Normal Eating Habits”

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020

According to Hydrosol, the plant-based trend continues to have extraordinary potential around the world. “Plant-based and free-from will remain major growth drivers at Hydrosol,” states a press release that describes its new plantbased competence centre which it referred to as a “new creative pool for tomorrow’s nutrition”.

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Food & Beverage

Hydrosol Responds to Decline of Interest in Soy with Alternatives Made With Peas, Potatoes & Fava Beans

February 17, 2020

Modern consumers demand a short ingredient list and also increasingly prefer products without soy and other allergenic ingredients. Ingredients specialists Hydrosol work with allergen- and soy-free stabilising and texturing systems based on potato and pea protein to make a wide range of products, from cold cuts to salami to bacon.

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Hydrosol Establishes Plant-Based Competence Centre

November 29, 2019

Hydrosol, a Hamburg based provider of solutions for beverages, and for vegetarian and vegan alternatives to meat and dairy products, has formed a Plant-based Competence Centre. Describing it as a “new creative pool for tomorrow’s nutrition” where product managers, nutritionists, food technologists and marketing specialists develop creative concepts to address the trends in international markets.

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Hydrosol Presents New Ideas for Plant-Based Products at SupplySide West

September 16, 2019

At this year’s SupplySide West in Las Vegas, Hydrosol, a leading supplier of stabilising and texturing systems, will present the latest generation of functional systems and all-in compounds for making plant-based burger patties, cold cuts and sausages, as well as vegan pizza cheese, cream cheese and sour cream.

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Hydrosol Focusing on Plant-Based Alternatives to Meat and Dairy

May 16, 2019

At this year’s IFT Food Expo in New Orleans, Hydrosol, one of the world’s leading suppliers of stabilising and texturing systems, is presenting the latest generation of functional systems and all-in compounds for making plant-based burger patties, cold cuts and sausages, as well as vegan alternatives to pizza cheese, cream cheese and sour cream.

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Hydrosol: Low-Cost Texturing for the Production of Vegan Meat Substitutes

July 25, 2018

Foods that will in future be increasingly important for conscious consumers are often associated with supposedly high costs for producers. Vegan meat substitutes are no exception. But the stabilization and texturization systems manufacturer Hydrosol offers companies a real alternative when it comes to meat substitutes.

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Innovative Technologies Pave the Way for Growth of Veganism

July 12, 2018July 9, 2018

The trend data for vegan food production all point in one direction: growth!

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