Next week Vestkorn exhibits at InterZoo, Nuremberg, Germany 24-27 May. The great news from Vestkorn – the leading European producer of healthy, sustainable, non-GMO ingredients – is textured protein (TVP) from peas and faba beans. Our peas and faba bean TVPs are available as mince and chunks forms to fulfill various customer needs. Sustainable ingredients…
Royal DSM became the owner of Vestkorn with effect from 16.December. The acquisition is a further step in DSM’s strategy to build an alternative protein business and will provide synergy with DSM’s innovative CanolaPRO™ rapeseed protein isolate, which will commercially launch next year. Together with DSM, Vestkorn will increase the global reach and further strengthen the…
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Next week Vestkorn exhibiting at FI Europe 2021, Frankfurt 29 Nov-2.Dec. You are welcome to visit us at stand 31D161. The great news is that Vestkorn – the leading European producer of healthy, sustainable, non-GMO ingredients – is now launching an even better textured pea chunks. Vestkorn Textured protein P6511C is nothing less than the next generation textured pea protein! Good…
#Vestkorn is one of very few in the world both producing pea protein and faba protein. This gives us a unique opportunity to play with combinations of these native plant proteins in our extruder, building new and exciting textured proteins alive. You can learn more by contacting Bjørn, Mona, Thomas or Marius. Innovations for the…
pea protein / Plant based / Sustainable ingredients / textured / Textured vegetable protein / Vestkorn
Our new organic clean label alternatives will make it possible for the food industry to develop and produce new plant-based products. Our textured proteins aim to be leading in functionality and are available in various forms to meet customer demands. Our organic textured proteins from peas are suitable as a meat analogue or extender, but…
Vestkorn’s textured pea and faba bean proteins are tasty and nutritious substitutes, suitable for imitating e.g. chicken and pork meat. Produced in a sustainable way, Vestkorn ingredients provides high-quality plant-based protein for a global growing population. Aslak Lie, CEO Meat production accounts for one-fourth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, and yet global meat consumption continues…
There are two major routes to a textured pea protein with 65% protein content: 1) The conventional recipe is using pea protein isolate (85% pea protein, wet processed by the use of acids and bases) adding an amount of pea flour. By this recipe the salt content will typically be 2,3%-2,9% in the textured pea…
FI Europe is an important arena for the food and beverage industry to meet up with customers, potential customers, gain more insight about market trends and to see what’s new developments in the food sector. Global health & safety measures and travel restrictions due to Covid-19 has transformed this year’s exhibition and conference to an…
Are you happy with an analysis verifying below 20ppm gluten in your pea- and faba protein? We think you shouldn´t. If you want to secure the food you produce is gluten-free in every bite, you better look beyond the analysis. If a representative sample says <20ppm gluten, it may well be that some of the…
Vestkorn is a proud Super-Premium sponsor also this year for the 6th Nordic Pet Food Conference & Exhibition 29 – 30 September 2020. We see this arena as a great opportunity to connect with people in the pet food industry and also gain new market insights. Recently the company launched VESTKORN COLDGEL PS70 PETFOOD which fit perfectly…
Peas and beans are typically rotation crops. And most farmers growing legumes also grow grains. Further much of the same equipments, storage and system of transportation are used. Therefore one should always expect to have a certain amount of contamination of grains, as well as other impurities, when buying legumes from a farmer. #Vestkorn has…
Brigde2Food is an important arena for the plant-based food value chain, bringing together business, research professionals, and other stakeholders from around the World to advance and accelerate for a better food world. This summit and exhibition aim to achieve stronger, more commercial and inspiring outcomes for the plant-based food industry. The top specialists in class…
Vestkorn uses our natural pea protein concentrate as the basis when producing textured pea protein: Pulsetex®. Our protein contains no salt as it is naturally produced without the use of chemicals, implying very low level of salt in all our textured proteins. This makes the textured proteins from Vestkorn both healthier and easier to use…
It is a long tradition in Norway to celebrate the constitution-day 17.May. Unlike many other countries this is not celebrated by a military parade, but by a parade in every city and village of children celebrating our freedom. This year it is different. There are no happy children in the streets, singing and celebrating. Yet…
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