Nestlé is introducing a further upgrade to its Garden Gourmet Sensational Burger, just a few months after the previous version launched in Europe
The Vevey, Switzerland-headquartered company boasted on September 30 that the new recipe features “the meatiest plant-based flavor yet and a juicier than ever texture. It has the crumbly texture and ‘hand-made’ shape of a great beef burger, stemming from newly-developed techniques for working with plant-based proteins.”
The upgraded burger will start to appear across Europe in October, with Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and Spain among the first countries in the rollout. It will be available in supermarkets and to restaurant and foodservice customers.
“We see that people are increasingly looking for alternatives that are good for them and for the planet,” said Wayne England, head of Nestlé’s food business. “We want to lead the way in making plant-based foods part of everybody’s everyday life.”
The Garden Gourmet Sensational Burger still has among the best nutritional values of any plant-based burger on the market, with a Nutri-Score ‘A’ rating. The product combines natural soy, natural plant extracts (beetroot, carrot, apple and hibiscus), rapeseed and coconut oil with a proprietary method of fermenting plant-based ingredients to boost the umami flavor of the burger.
Torsten Pohl, head of the Nestlé Product Technology Center in Singen, Germany, said: “Our goal is to offer people the best plant-based meat alternatives in terms of taste, texture, flavor and nutrition. We are able to leverage new technologies and key learnings to continuously improve the plant-based burger recipe.”
People are continuing to look for different ways to eat more healthily by diversifying their protein intake. Global research for Nestlé has shown that around a third of consumers now consider themselves either vegan, vegetarian or flexitarian, meaning they are eating less or no meat.
Nestlé is committed to providing more delicious, nutritious and sustainable plant-based options for consumers around the globe. In the past 18 months the company has introduced a variety of new plant-based burgers, sausages, mince, alternatives to chicken and tuna, as well as an array of plant-based meals including pizzas and lasagna. It has also debuted a fully plant-based ‘bacon cheeseburger’ for the foodservice in the USA.
