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…
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…
Semi-moist snacks: Vestkorn can help with ingredients and parameter settings solving stickiness during production
Difference between differently (naturally) processed carbohydrates gives the opportunity to use them in various applications. Bellow, in the video, we would like to illustrate how N – native pea starch flour from Vestkorn and CG – ColdGel PS70 from Vestkorn are acting in contact with cold water. N – Native pea starch flour from Vestkorn:…
Precooked pea starch perfect for treats and cold pressed petfood
When purchasing raw materials, we are often focusing only on the final price and nutritional performance. It is our goal to get the minimal price for maximal nutritional uptake. Often, it is forgotten to evaluate possible performance during the processing.
Pea starch natural solution for pet food.
Extrusion is widely used in manufacturing industry (food/feed, plastic, etc.) to produce different shapes, all regards to what customer wants. Food extrusion system is much more complexed compared to plastic extrusion system. A simple reason to that is a number of ingredients used for forming an extruded product, known as pellets or kibbles so predicting…
Peas belong to a legume family. Moreover, peas along with beans, lentils and other pea types (chickpea, cowpea, etc.) are also known as pulses. Pulses are edible seeds of leguminous plants classified from oilseeds as soybean and peanut and fresh peas/beans. Peas usually contain 20-30% protein, 40-50% starch, and 10-15% of fiber as the main…
During the pregnancy and lactation period, food for any animal species needs to be richer in energy, proteins and digestible, quality ingredients. It is important that pregnant and lactating animal have available concentrated nutrients to transfer first to the fetus and later to the developing litter. Picture 1. Sow litter, picture courtesy of Pixabay Thingnes…
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