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Revolutionising Plant-Based Meat Alternatives: The Game-Changing Impact of Mirror Tissue
30 Sep 2024The article discusses the challenges of creating plant-based meat alternatives that truly replicate the taste and texture of animal meat. It highlights the importance of fat in providing the desired sensory experience and introduces Mirror Tissue, a new lipid technology developed by Alianza Team, as a potential solution. Mirror Tissue aims to mimic the functional, structural, and sensory attributes of animal fat, offering improved taste, texture, and juiciness in plant-based meat product.
In the burgeoning market of plant-based meat alternatives, a significant gap has emerged. While consumers are increasingly driven by health and sustainability concerns, many plant-based products fall short in imitating the flavor, texture, and juiciness of real meat (Appiani et al, 2023).
This discrepancy has hindered wider adoption, plant-based meat sales declined more sharply than plant-based food sales overall, and surveys of lapsed consumers showed that plant-based meat products are largely not meeting consumer expectations, particularly in regard to taste, texture, and price (Good food Institute, 2024). Consumers are left craving a solution that offers both the benefits of plant-based foods and the sensory experience of animal fatty tissue.
Enter Mirror Tissue, a groundbreaking innovation from the experts at Alianza Team, designed to bridge this gap. Developed by specialists in fat technology, Mirror Tissue is the result of extensive research into the characteristics of animal fatty tissue across various meat sources. By analyzing both the micro and macrostructure of the intra and inter muscular fatty tissue from animals, Alianza Team has crafted a product that mimics, looks and feels of the white animal fatty tissue and also delivers on taste and texture. This novel product incorporates a sophisticated interaction of ingredients to emulsify and gelify vegetable oils, creating a matrix that potentially mimics the hardness, elasticity, and cohesiveness of animal adiposity.
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