Tag: Plant

By Henk Hoogenkamp, Protein Applications Expert Increasing meat consumption has manifested itself in China, losing its near self-sufficiency in soybeans. Chinese soybeans imports have steadily increased and now represent about 85 percent of consumption. Similarly, corn imports are now also at the beginning of the soy-trajectory as compared to the past when China was self-sufficient.…

By Henk Hoogenkamp, Protein Applications Expert The plant-based meat market still has a long way to catch up the conventionally processed meat market. Globally, the processed meat market is US$ 148 billion (2018), far outpacing the US$ 2.2 billion in packaged plant-based meat analog sales. The gap is narrower in the US, where about US$…