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Seasoning Blends for Meats

Seasoning Blends, Batters and Breading.

Seasoning blends, batter and breading mixes are key to delivering the flavors and textures consumers expect in their meat products.

Our Seasoning Blends.

Seasoning blends typically consisting of salt, spices, herbs and acids, are used by meat manufacturers during production to add flavor to their products. The seasoning blends are typically applied or mixed with the raw meat, where attention needs to be paid to ensure the ingredients, specifically raw salt and acids, do not have a negative effect on the meat.

Batters and breading mixes typically contain either a leavening system or an acid, or sometimes both. The leavening system is designed to create lift and a desirable texture in the batter, while acids are often added to impart a unique flavor to batters and breading; often to mimic the flavor of an acidic ingredient like buttermilk.

How We Serve the Market.

Encapsulated Salts

Enhance flavor to raw meat without negatively effecting texture and process handling

Minimize line fouling, oxidation and maximize shape forming during production

Encapsulated Acidulants

Allow for unique, acidic, flavors to be incorporate into meat products, either in seasonings or in batters, without effecting the meat texture, handling or resulting in product purge (loss of water)

Encapsulated Leavening

Deliver the performance needed in a batter coating system by controlling when the leavening reaction takes place

Allows for added production flexibility by extending the usable life of a hydrated batter

Prevents unwanted interactions in dry batter and breading systems over shelf-life, ensuring continued product performance even in humid environments

Markets Served.

Meat producers

Blending houses

Dry Blend Manufacturers

Flavors Companies

Contract Manufacturers

Our Brands.

Balchem’s line of MeatShure® and BakeShure® encapsulates are key enablers in the seasoning blend, batters and breading space to ensure the highest quality finished meat product reaches the consumers.