Following the recent onboarding of ex-vice president of LG’s Kim Jin-hong as the new CEO; South Korean producer of tofu and traditional packaged food items such as seaweed, kimchi, and ramen, Pulmuone Co, announced yesterday its entrance into the alternative meat category. 20 new products will be launched in its domestic Korean market as well as in China, Japan and in the USA under the name Plantspired.
Pulmuone Launches New Plant-Based Brand in Korea
Pulmuone has launched a plant-based brand in Korea, offering meatless versions of dishes such as rice bowls, dumplings, noodles in black bean sauce, and spicy rice cakes. The new dishes are made with textured vegetable protein (TVP) instead of meat. The TVP recipe is unique to the brand and was developed in collaboration with Ingredion and Danisco Nutrition and Bioscience. Pulmuone, best known for products such as tofu, ramen, and seaweed, announced last year that it would be entering the plant-based market in China, Japan, the USA, and Korea. In the US, the company launched a meat-free range in 2020 under the brand name Plantspired. These products are available for retail and are also supplied to foodservice outlets such as restaurants and school cafeterias. In …
