Pep’s balls, a nutritional boost for recipes with pulses

Company: Limagrain Ingredients

Website: www.limagrain-ingredients.com

Ingredient Snapshot: By 2020, 60 percent of consumers would like to increase the amount of plant-based protein in their diet, and around 37 percent of consumers consider themselves as flexitarian, vegetarian, or vegan worldwide. However, plant-based protein products need to keep their composition simple, with a handful of trusted ingredients that consumers know. In addition, 25 percent of consumers are concerned about the taste of plant-based protein products, and 17 percent are concerned about their texture. Therefore, the inclusion of legumes while maintaining a good organoleptic quality of the products remains a challenge for manufacturers.

This is why Limagrain Ingredients has developed Pep's Balls: a new range of extruded pulses to enrich products with plant-based proteins, without any compromise on taste and offering a great mouthfeel.

A range of three Pep’s balls to use as inclusion ingredients, ensuring a plant-based protein enhancement and a great natural texturizer for your products:

Pep’s Balls chickpea
Pep’s Balls pea & faba bean
Pep’s Balls red bean & peas

Benefits include:

Only pulses
Natural plant-based protein content
Boost of protein & fibers to reach health claims or improve Nutriscore
Easy to implement in your recipes
Clear and clean label

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