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    Artificial seafood, will the market buy it?

    • Last Update: 2022-08-31
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    With the improvement of domestic and foreign consumers' health awareness, concern for animal welfare and the popularization of sustainable development concepts, reducing the consumption of animal meat is becoming a fashion


    Promising but slow

    The absence of leading brands

    On August 23, the food research brand "Omni New Meatism" under Green Monday released its first plant-based seafood product series in the first experience store in the mainland, including 6 products such as fish fillets and crab cakes; Thai United Group, which owns brands such as Chicken of the Sea, said it will launch a plant-based shrimp product by the end of this year, joining other plant-based fish and crab products it has already launched


    According to the Good Food Institute (GFI), as of June 2021, there are 83 companies worldwide producing plant-based seafood products, of which 65 are focused on plant-based products


    All along, while plant-based foods are booming, the development of plant-based seafood has been relatively slow


    At the same time, concerns about fisheries are a driver of consumers turning to plant-based products


    New raw materials, new technologies and new research

    Make "artificial" seafood closer to reality

    The team of Zhao Yong from Shanghai Ocean University and Shanghai Aquatic Products Processing and Storage Engineering Technology Research Center introduced in their research paper that the commonly used plant proteins for artificial seafood based on plant foods include soybean protein, pea protein, wheat gluten, etc.


    In addition, 3D printing technology has made initial progress in plant-based seafood


    Leveraging the Trend of Plant Protein

    Seafood industry ushered in change

    Significant hurdles that still need to be overcome in the plant-based seafood sector are reported to include taste, texture and the ability of the product to achieve the same health benefits as seafood


    Taste Seafood taste is notoriously difficult to replicate, and with the variety of products available, producing viable alternatives is far less straightforward than meat products


    Texture The technology of replicating seafood is also a major challenge for the industry


    Investments The plant-based seafood market has witnessed a number of large-scale investments in start-ups over the past year, underscoring the rising demand for fish substitutes


    Industry Growth According to research by GFI, the US is the country with the most vegan companies offering seafood alternatives


    Despite these challenges, it is clear that plant-based seafood presents significant opportunities for businesses and investors


    Alex Beckett, associate director at Mintel Food & Beverage, said: “People want the world to be a better place now, and for consumers who don’t know how to make a positive change, not consuming animal protein could be seen as a climate change Crisis, empathy with nature, a way to improve one's own nutritional intake


    Zhao Yong's research team believes that with the improvement of social and economic level, people are no longer satisfied with the traditional consumption pattern, and turn to high-quality, clean and environmentally friendly products


      (Comprehensive arrangement by Luo Chen)  

      "China Food News" (August 26, 2021 02 edition)

    (Editor in charge: Luo Chen)

     

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