Traditionally, cooked meat products and fine paste sausages are cured with nitrite salts, an additive hich labelling is now negatively perceived by consumers. With the TEXEL® NatuRed range, Danisco provides the typical colour, flavour and shelf life of cooked products cured with nitrite salts, with the added advantage of an all-natural positioning.

“TEXEL® NatuRed LT is efficient from 4°C, states Caroline de Lamarlière, Danisco European Food Protection Meat Industry Manager, “ Therefore, meat manufacturers do not have to invest into new utilities nor change their processing conditions to produce cooked meats with an appealing and stable colour.”

Indeed, laboratory tests showed that cooked hams using TEXEL® NatuRed combined with a nitrate source coming from vegetables developed a similar colour intensity than control hams produced with equivalent quantities of nitrite salt and sodium ascorbate. In addition, the catalase activity and oxygen consumption of TEXEL® NatuRed contribute to colour stability throughout shelf life.

Packaged chilled meat, such as ham, bacon or frankfurters, represented 80 billion euros in 2006* and is today the largest market for refrigerated foods worldwide. Within this market, the number of meat and poultry new product launches with an all-natural claim more than doubled since 2005**.

In addition to TEXEL® NatuRed, Danisco’s offer for natural cooked meat includes natural antioxidants, such as GUARDIAN™ Green Tea Extract and GUARDIAN™ Rosemary Extract.

* source: Euromonitor October 2007
** source: Mintel GNPD

Stéphane Constant, Danisco Food Protection BU Global Director, will make a speech on “Nature & Science = Food protection” at Natural Ingredients conferences on October 30th at 12.10 am, South Hall.

For more information, please contact:
Nathalie Brosse  ( +33 6 77 79 76 33, nathalie.brosse@danisco.com


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