Walnut Ground Meat:
Accept No Substitute

Simplify your plant-based ground meat product development with walnuts, legumes and a seasoning blend—a winning combination designed to satisfy consumers and easily scale up for nationwide distribution. It’s the perfect formula for existing plant-forward brands, start-ups and contract manufacturers seeking to capitalize on demand for clean-label plant-based foods and ready-to-eat walnut ground meat in the foodservice industry.

Core Benefits

Clean Label

It’s ground meat, just without the meat. Or the fillers, additives, preservatives and complicated processing equipment needed to make it. So maybe it’s not like ground meat at all. Instead, it’s a plant-based ground meat alternative formulated with three simple ingredients, made on standard processing equipment and designed to scale up easily and quickly. So yes, it’s definitely better.

Walnut Meat

Taste & Texture

Due to walnuts’ subtle nuttiness and exceptional texture, walnut ground meat has the opportunity to play a starring role in the next wave of plant-forward alternatives. In a 2019 consumer survey, taste was cited as the number one reason for consuming walnuts, and in the 2021 Kerry Global Taste Chart, walnuts are listed as the number one ingredient for meat alternatives.

Versatility

A walnut ground meat makes for a flavorful base on its own, or it can be seasoned many different ways for many different products, from tacos to frozen lasagna. Use it just as you would ground meat!
Walnut Meat Meatballs

Processing & Scaling Up

A walnut-based ground meat is easy to process and scale up in any type of food manufacturing facility, requiring only basic processing equipment to blend the ingredients. Plus, walnut ground meat can be kept frozen or refrigerated with an exceptional shelf life.

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California Walnuts

Proof of Concept

Eat Nice

Branded Product
Meaty Walnut Ravioli, Eat Nice

A combination of sun-dried tomatoes and walnuts offers a perfectly textured meat substitute filling in this frozen ravioli.

Ready-to-Eat Application
Chef/Owner Ivy Stark of MEXology and BKLYNwild

Discover the diversity of walnuts as the perfect showcase ingredient in the biggest savory and sweet flavor trends.

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More ways to learn about walnut ground meat

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Tip: Maximize California walnuts fresh taste and quality by keeping them in your refrigerator or freezer.

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