On May 20, Wang Lala, a brand of Vigor Forest, announced the launch of plant-based meat spicy sticks. According to its official microblog platform’s introduction, the plant-based meat spicy stick is a soy protein product, with 36% high-protein, salty sauce and spicy taste, 30g per pack, and one pack contains the protein that is more than 1 cup of milk’s.

As consumers pay more attention to sustainability and health issues, more and more companies are entering the plant-based meat market. Main raw materials of plant-based meat or plant-based protein meat, and meat analogue are vegetable protein, such as soybean protein, wheat protein, pea protein, etc., among them soybean protein is the most important raw material.

Although sustainability and health are the primary drivers, the taste experience of plant-based meat products still remains some deficiencies and consumers refuse to compromise on taste. How to develop healthy and delicious plant-based meat products to solve the taste pain points of healthy plant-based meat food, sucralose will surely do a favour

New Regulations of Plant-based Meet

In this February, the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China No. 1 of 2022 approved the use of sucralose as a sweetener in new soy products (referring to soy protein and its puffed food, soy vegetarian meat, etc., plant-based meat is one of them) , and the maximum usage is 0.4g/kg. Prior to this, only sodium saccharin and steviol glycosides were approved for use in new soy products. As a high-intensity sweetener, sucralose has the advantages of high safety, taste similar to sucrose’s, high sweetness, and low cost. It can be used in new soy products to improve product taste, reduce calories, which makes consumers feel free to eat such products.

Expanded use of food additives

Chart Source: the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China

Conclusion:

In recent years plant-based meat has become a popular track, capital keeps continuously pouring in, and companies keep increasing their layout. As an excellent sweetener, sucralose has been continuously expanded in its scope of use. With the continuous development of the sucralose production industry, this sweetener is with pure taste, high sweetness and no calorie.The application will become more and more common in plant-based meat and will bring new changes to the plant-based meat production industry.