Vaessen-Schoemaker is dedicated to the development of functional ingredients for meat and fish products.

Based on more than 60 years of international expertise and continuous research, we know all about single ingredients, combinations of those ingredients and their functionality in your products under your processing conditions.

If you are looking for the most functional cost-in-use combinations of phosphates, phosphate replacers, carbohydrates, proteins, fibres, antioxidants, hydrocolloids and preservatives. If you are facing adjustment to new Food Regulations. Our Know How is at your service.

Developing new products in close cooperation with our technologists will save you a considerable amount of time and costs.

• Easy access to new ideas thanks to our long international experience
• The availability of many product concepts
• Standard solutions can easily be transferred to custom made formulations
• with a confidentiality guarantee
• Fully equipped, professional pilot plant at your disposal
• Market and regulations orientated analyses in our laboratory

Too many additives

Do you recognize that feeling returning home after your latest visit to a food ingredients exhibition, loaded with brochures you’ll probably never study:

• Too many additives
• Too many mono-culture suppliers
• Good recommendations for single ingredients, but what about different combinations?
• Not enough time to check which combination is best for your applications?

If you are making further processed meat, poultry,fish or vegetarian products, you may rely on us, and relax. We already have done, and continuously are doing all that research for you.
Tell us what you need, and we will propose and demonstrate the different options available to you.

Need for creativity

Let us help you to find creative solutions, such as

• Fat replacer (sliceable in sheets!)
• Light sausage (only 785 kJ)
• Increase grill oven capacity by 200% and more
• Upgrade low cost raw materials
• Clean label solutions
• Increase succulence in poultry breast fillets
• High yield products with DMP meat
• Reduce curing time of salted fish by 50%
• Eliminate dripping losses in frozen fish
• Vegetarian “meat” products

Halal and Kosher

In a global scope of business it is very important to be able to meet a wide variety of demands.
Within our own specific field of expertise we aim to provide a complete product range to satisfy our customers every need. We notice that there is a growing demand for Halal and Kosher products. In order to be able to produce under Halal and Kosher certificates, we have joined hands with respectable institutes who have helped us realize the possibility of producing under a Halal certificate or under a Kosher or Passover for Kosher certificate. For each individual product they will helps us find the best formula for the requested product.