Sodium Reduction Toolkit: APMEA

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of APMEA consumers link processed food with too much salt, whereas 80% of consumer sodium intake comes from processed food.

16%

% Growth in Sodium Reduced APMEA New Launches between 2020-2023. Greater variety can inspire experimentation with emerging interest in snacks, meat, sauces and instant meals.

51%

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Improving Front-of-Package Nutrition Labels

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Sodium Reduction in Salty Snacks

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Reducing Sodium Content in Deli Meat

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Kerry TastesenseTM Salt

Tastesense™ Salt helps replace the salty taste consumers love without adding sodium while also retaining essential flavor-enhancing properties and replicating salty body, linger and upfront impact. Sold both as a singular solution and as part of a more complex solution, like snack seasonings, Tastesense™ Salt is built upon strong fundamental science that links taste receptors with proprietary product chemistry, material science, salt morphology, proteolysis and fermentation. These proprietary and in-house capabilities allow Kerry to design multidimensional, novel taste ingredients from natural botanical extracts, peptides, ferments (yeast and non-yeast based), as well as various by-products from valorisation streams.

Umami and kokumi flavors give depth and authenticity to savory foods. By leveraging our fermentation, extraction, cooking and flavor expertise, we’ve created an industry-leading clean label portfolio of umami and kokumi ingredients. These solutions can be added to manufactured foods to help build a complete savory profile to impart deliciousness, richness, fullness and depth tailored to suit local markets and meet application requirements such as sodium reduction. When you formulate with complex and rich umami and kokumi solutions, your food products are more likely to hit all the right sensory notes and win over consumer preference.

Umami & Kokumi

Consumers want the rich and authentic taste of dairy in both dairy and plant-based dairy products, and they’re not compromising on taste, nutrition or sustainability. Our taste solutions deliver delicious dairy and plant-based flavours – including a full range of cheese, butter, milk and cream, cultured and sweet dairy taste profiles. We have worked with dairy for 50 years and our evolution is anchored in its science and taste that will help your products surpass expectation. With our expertise is dairy, we can integrate our dairy taste solution with Tastesense™ Salt, Fermentation and Smoke & Grill, to create an overall healthy indulgent experience for the consumer.

Dairy & Dairy-Free Taste

Consumers want savoury foods that taste as if they were slow-cooked all day. Our Authentic Savoury™ taste ingredients replicate the natural flavours of small-batch cooking. These ingredients come from a collaboration between our chefs, food scientists and application experts, who use their knowledge of different cooking techniques and ingredients to regularly add to our industry-leading savoury taste portfolio. Our Authentic Savoury™ taste solutions include: Cooking Method Flavours: Our collection of cooking methods solutions can help you bring classic nuances like baked, boiled, fried, grilled, seared and smoked to a variety of applications. These solutions allow you to achieve “the taste of time” in industrially manufactured meals, meat and more. Meat Flavours: Fresh, flavourful and complex beef, pork and chicken flavours can be combined with our rich portfolio of cooking method flavours to inspire any application. Kerry Red Arrow™: Create the harmony of flavours that come from cooking with fire with Kerry Red Arrow™ smoke and grill flavours, including smoky, ashy, chargrill, scorch, seared and flame-kissed. From enhancing freshness perception to perfecting the salt reduced flavour profile, we can personally curate the Authentic Savoury™ solution right for your application.

Authentic Savoury™

of APMEA consumers assumed that reduced / 0% salt product lack flavour or diminish the characterising flavour.

55%

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The Sodium Trap

Salt is the perception of taste quality

Growing Demand and Emerging Interest

The Sodium Trap

Growing Demand and Emerging Interest

Salt is the perception of taste quality

Sodium Reduction Toolbox

The sodium trap.

Growing demand and emerging interest in salt reduction.

Salt is the perception of taste quality.

Click to discover key insights on salt reduction.

Salt is the perception of taste quality.

Click to discover key insights on salt reduction.

Growing demand and emerging interest in salt reduction.

Click to discover key insights on salt reduction.

The sodium trap.

Click to discover key insights on salt reduction.