Dehydrated ingredients: a solution with many benefits for ready meals
The emergence of ready-to-eat products has driven the growth and development of the dehydrated foods market.
Consumers are increasing their demand for authentic flavors and natural ingredients and prefer to pay a little more for soups, sauces or recipes that provide better taste, texture and appearance.
The elimination of moisture from ingredients is a solution that provides multiple benefits for the ready meals manufacturer: it increases the shelf life of the ingredient by allowing it to be kept at room temperature for at least 1 year, it makes preservation and transport more economical, it provides homogeneity of flavor so that it is maintained batch after batch and, finally, it improves the texture, appearance and authenticity of your recipes.
New Foods: a wide variety of dehydrated foods for your dishes
New Foods offers a wide range of dehydrated ingredients to meet all your customers' needs:
- Italian delights: products related to the tasty Italian cuisine to prepare recipes like a real chef.
- Ingredients: fresh tomato, aromatic herbs and cheeses ideal for recipes such as soups, sauces, rice or risotto. risotto.
- From our garden: ingredient with high traceability, the company is involved from the collection of the ingredient in the field to the dehydration process in its Verona factory.
- Ingredients: Italian spinach powder, olive rings, artichokes, capers, etc.
- Mushroom specialists: since 1974 New Foods has been offering cultivated wild mushrooms such as Boletus Edulis (the famous porcini), Cantharellus cibarius, Champignon, Shitake, etc., of the highest quality certified by an expert in mycology.
- Flavor modulators: with the growing demand for healthy eating on the part of consumers, New Foods has different solutions to improve the natural flavor of healthier foods by enhancing it, reducing the amount of salt, elevating umami and mouthfeel or masking bitterness.
- New: UMAMI MVD NF5540: all-vegetable product based on natural ingredients that provides an intense umami flavor that enhances the taste in various applications, and successfully replaces glutamate and yeast extract.
New Foods uses innovative technologies for the dehydration of its products such asModified Vacuum Drying (Modified Vacuum Drying). Drying). A procedure that consists of drying foods, such as basil, pesto powder or cheeses, by reducing the heat required for rapid drying. It offers multiple advantages:
- Maintains the natural characteristics of the final product
- Does not destroy the product matrix and maintains the product structure
- Lowers the water activity of the feed increasing its shelf life
- Requires less energy and reduces economic and environmental costs
- It is a less harmful drying process
Would you like to learn more about the different dehydrated foods that we offer? New Foods offers you? Discover them and give the final touch to your ready meals improving their taste and appearance.
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