Companies offer “ice cream” made from beans and plant foods flavored with “meat, fish and crab”

During their participation in the “Gulfood Manufacturing 2024” exhibition, which recently concluded at the Dubai World Trade Center, companies presented innovative products for the food industries, including “ice cream” made entirely from beans and without dairy, meat and burger products made from beans, and dairy extracted from… Sunflower seeds and honey, in addition to products made from plant materials flavored with fish and crab, in addition to devices for recycling cardboard containers for drinks for use in office and home furnishings.

Company officials confirmed to Emirates Al-Youm that the proposed innovation models are among the most prominent trends in the global food industries and keep pace with sustainability policies. They also constitute new alternatives to food and protein sources in the face of global challenges due to estimates of a greater decline in food resources in the future.

Nihil Abdel-Al, director of communications at Jeevaudan, said: “Food industry innovations are currently keeping pace with sustainability trends and the challenges of declining global food resources, and the need for nutritional alternatives to protein sources in traditional foods, which has led companies to turn to producing food models for meals with fish or crab flavors and tastes.” Or meat, but it is made entirely from plant materials rich in protein sources or fortified with added vitamins.”

She added that her company provided food flavors produced from plant sources, with the taste and flavors of crab, fish and meat, to provide new food alternatives that suit the dietary patterns of individuals and meet sustainability requirements.

For her part, Francesca Cavello, sales director at Host Milano, said: “The rise in demand for food products with the increase in population, and the challenges of the decline and shortage of food resources globally, has increased the innovation trends of companies, to find innovative solutions that allow for the sustainability of materials and provide multiple alternatives to food.” “Especially with the high cost of raw materials for producing food from animal sources compared to previous periods.”

She added, “The challenges imposed by the Corona pandemic are among the most important factors that contributed to changing the trends of the food industry globally, and raised the directions of manufacturing companies and research and development institutions to keep pace with sustainability in providing alternative food products that rely on more diverse sources, which contributed to an increase in Trends in relying on food products produced from plant materials that taste like meat and fish and constitute alternative sources of protein in foods.” Companies are expected to expand further in putting these products on the market and the demand will spread at large rates, especially with the availability of technologies that facilitate the differentiation in taste between them and the usual fish and poultry foods. And meat.

She explained that “Dubai markets are one of the important markets for international companies in presenting developments in the food industry, especially as it is a regional center for re-exporting food to the region’s markets,” noting that “the high demand for food in the UAE and Dubai markets attracts many international food manufacturing companies.” .

In turn, the General Manager of Swiss Log Middle East, Rami Younis, said: “Innovations are reshaping and formulating the future of food supply chains by confronting current and future challenges, starting from the production process and ending with the distribution process, along with ensuring the achievement of environmental and environmental goals.” Sustainability. “As the global population is set to grow to 8.5 billion people by 2030, food and beverage warehouses must adapt to the expected size and efficiently manage many stock keeping units in a limited space.”

He added that “the trend towards innovation, automation and technologies is one of the main trends in the food industries currently,” pointing out that “the demand for food industry automation services in the UAE is expected to achieve growth of up to 15% during the year 2024, compared to the year 2023.”

Marketing Director at Tetra Pak, Abdul Mohsen Al-Sabeeh, said, “Sustainability and innovation have become one of the modern mechanisms in the food industry sector, which made the company introduce ice cream products made from beans and without any dairy or animal sources, as an alternative to protein. The company’s platform and furniture were also built.” At the exhibition there were products from recycled cardboard containers for drinks, and the company has introduced about 1,000 devices in the Emirates to collect containers that can be recycled.