The market for plant-based food is booming, prompting restaurateurs to adapt their menus and kitchens to the new demand.
Vegan and vegetarian options continue to grow at a rapid pace in Europe, as the European Plant-based Food Market is expected to reach $16.70 billion by 2029.
Veganism is the fastest growing of all the options. It advocates a diet based solely on plant-based products, as opposed to vegetarianism, which advocates not consuming any animal meat, and flexi-vegetarianism, in which the intake of animal products is very low.
Thus, the food industry continues to innovate non-stop and in recent years we are seeing how it is transforming practically all its options, strongly incorporating plant-based meat on the supermarket shelves and increasingly veganising foods such as fish, cheese and sausages.
The catering industry reformulates and adapts: what equipment helps you to better preserve vegetables and greens for your business?
The growth of this new way of eating has led to a surge in the opening of vegan restaurants and has also forced the more traditional restaurants to adapt in order to meet the new demands of the consumer, incorporating original dishes based on vegetables and derivatives into their menus.
Dishes such as tomato and basil tartar, lentil meatballs with lemon pesto sauce, or roasted vegetable millefeuille with caper vinaigrette are the fruit of the inventiveness of chefs and professionals who have to innovate to create new recipes to replace the traditional ones.
Vegetables, like fruit, represent an important part of the cold industry because they are perishable foods and require correct storage. During their conservation, they continue to undergo respiration and metabolic phenomena, so it is necessary to control the temperature and humidity at which they must be conserved, the most commonly used parameters being temperatures close to freezing without freezing and humidity levels of between 85 and 90%.
A professional refrigerated cabinet will allow the freshness and quality of these products to be properly preserved. For example, Rightway Asia’s QR 6-5A and QR 12-5A models are a perfect match, with self-closing door to avoid wasting energy, and have been developed exclusively for fresh produce refrigeration, offering a very practical goods storage system with maximum flexibility and interior space with either one or two doors.
For proper handling, storage and creation of these vegetable-based recipes, it is now a priority to have a refrigeration table that not only refrigerates the food in the lower part, but also has a worktop in the upper part of the table.
What types of refrigerated counters are available? Each counter can have different customisable options, such as glass doors or drawers, gastronorm or snack sizes, or come in different heights depending on the work to be carried out. The QR 2100 or QR 3100 model from Rightway Asia will help you to optimise your daily work thanks to their new door design, rounded edges on the top and digital display.
