Go Plant based: Boost the taste of bean based snacks!

It is far known that people who eat more vegetable and fruits reduce the risk of some chronic disease. Vegetables and fruits provide essential nutrients to maintain the body healthy.  

 

One of food category that has being impacting and under pressing during the latest decade to deliver healthy alternatives is snacks. Millennials, for example, are replacing meals to snack because they are “busy” and 2 in 5 US Gen Z consumers snacks twice a day in average (Innova Market Insights, June 2019).

In this scenario, snacks with vegetable based increase in importance, because they also offer a protein contribution that is essential for body health.

According to Innova Market Insights, the demand for convenient high in fiber and high protein snacks boosted the higher global bean based snacks NPD growth comparing to snacks category (CAGR – 2013-2018 of 15.5% for bean based snacks X 13.3% for snacks category).   

 

How to improve the taste of Bean based snacks? Biorigin presents Bioenhance!

Produced by natural fermentation, Bioenhance helps to keep the authentic taste of recipes by enhancing and imparting Umami taste, salt and mouthfeel perception, and contributing to mask undesirable flavours in various formulations of food and beverages like soups, broths, sauces, snacks, dairy and others. Due to the neutral profile of some products of Bioenhance line, it´s suited to be usedin synergismwith other taste builders like Bionis yeast extracts, boosting the final taste effect.

 

Bioenhance and Bionis are clean label, Non GMO, 100% natural and suitable for vegan and vegetarian recipes.

Check out how Bioenhance improve the taste of Roasted Chickpeas Snack

By using in synergy Bioenhance SFE 101 (natural flavour) and Bionis YE MX (yeast extract) in Chickpeas Snack bring up savoury and Umami tastes, mouthfeel and impact to overall taste profile!

Ingredients

Control

Bionis YE MX

+

Bioenhance SFE 101

%

%

Baked Chickpeas (without salt)

98.97

98.61

Palm Oil

0.50

0.50

Salt

0.53

0.39

Bionis YE MX

0.00 

0.35

Bioenhance SFE 101

 0.00

0.15

Total

100.00

100.00

Salt Content (g NaCl/100g)

0.53

0.53

Na Content (mg Na/100g)

206.70

206,70

 

Instructions to prepare:

1. Preheat oven to 200oC.

2. Dry the cooked chickpeas with a paper towel.. Bake for 40 minutes, until brown and crunchy. Watch carefully the last few minutes to avoid burning.

3. In a bowl, combine the chickpeas with palm oil and season with salt and Biorigin ingredients