Making the World a Better Place, One Ingredient at a Time
“There is absolutely no nutrient, no protein, no vitamin, no mineral that can’t be obtained from plant-based foods.”
Michael Klaper, American physician and vegan health educator
Today, consumers and formulators are heavily reliant on animal-based ingredients as a source of dietary and non-dietary protein, although the trend is slowly changing. Even though plant-based protein ingredients are making inroads, poor nutrition profile, negative consumer perception, and various formulation and production challenges continue to be major stumbling blocks. At Proeon, our journey is all about countering the insurmountable stress that animal-based diet creates on people, planet, and our collective conscience. We understand going green is no longer enough – eating green is the need of the hour, and are constantly working towards making it happen sustainably through ingredient innovation and supply chain revolution from farm to formulation.
Proteins are the building blocks of life. It is now widely believed by researchers that animal protein may be the single biggest source of chemical carcinogens. But Cancer is not the only downside of animal consumption for human health. Heart disease, stroke, diabetes, hormonal imbalances, cognitive degeneration, and various mental health illnesses can all be traced back to frequent consumption of animal-based diet. The shocking cruelty inflicted on animals and the various adverse effects on the environment like soil erosion, water stress, greenhouse gas emissions, and soil and water pollution make animal-protein consumption one of the most detrimental practices to our collective health and wellbeing. Further, plant-based foods are several times more energy-efficient than their animal-based counterparts, since “even the most efficient meat, chicken, requires 9 calories of input to produce just 1 calorie of food.” On the whole, less than 10% of feed calories or protein effectively get consumed as meat, milk, or egg calories.
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To mitigate this challenge, Proeon is dedicated to future-engineering food by producing plant protein ingredients that meet both formulator and consumer needs in a sustainable, effective, and efficient manner. To put this into perspective, here’s our understanding of why the industry has been struggling to align formulator needs with consumer needs: While consumers seek nutritious, healthy, and cruelty-free food, they also seek great taste, impeccable flavour, and incredible mouthfeel. Currently available plant-based protein ingredients sourced underperform when it comes to matching their animal counterparts in terms of sensory profile. It is near-impossible to adopt a one-size-fits-all approach due to the wide variations across plant-protein ingredients. Further, the presence of allergens, lower digestibility, and incomplete amino acid profile make them unsuitable for being used for healthy plant alternatives in supplements and diets. On the other hand, poor functional properties like solubility, emulsion, extrusion, etc. make it difficult for formulators and food innovators to adapt plant-based ingredients to various food processing technologies.
As experts in plant-based ingredients, our team has a rich experience across verticals like nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, food formulation and nutrition innovation. Thus, when we started in 2018, our vision was to enable clean, sustainable, healthy, and cruelty-free consumption and production of food. With time, however, we realized that plant protein is perhaps the biggest and the most crucial piece of the puzzle.
In view of the above, we innovated a unique product line of plant-based protein ingredients with superior nutritional, functional and sensory profile. Proeon’s speciality lies in helping our customers identify the right plant protein source for their products and to address their unique challenges by making high-quality ingredients with superior organoleptic properties that their consumers love and are hassle-free to formulate with.
Proeon plant protein ingredients are sourced from the most complete sources of plant proteins based on meticulous R&D. We realize that all raw materials need to be clean, 100% traceable, and nutrition-dense. All our cultivation and processing practices are fully documented and each plant protein ingredient can be traced back fully up to its seed-stage. We invest in farmer training, provide them with all the resources, and focus on hands-on knowledge transfer and handholding along the journey.
The raw materials then undergo innovative extraction processes that are gentle, chemical-free, and retain the bio-potency of the ingredients. The result is a line of superior plant-protein ingredients that have high protein concentration, complete amino acid profile, great digestibility, taste and flavour, and key attributes meeting various process needs like higher solubility, foaming, emulsification, gelation, and more.
But this is just the beginning. Our innovation in plant-based protein ingredients is all set to reach new heights in the years to come. Stay tuned to our blog for more!
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