A savory boost for authentic taste
Enriching every meal with clean label ingredients that elevate taste, while maintaining the genuine essence of the best home cooking
ProBase™ solutions are the perfect building blocks to help you achieve an authentic flavor profile in your soups, sauces or bouillons.
The foundation for your next savory launch
ProBase™ is an authentic kitchen ingredient that is derived by cooking down bones and trimmings until they release their rich taste and texture. This practice is rooted in culinary tradition, and when used in cooking, ProBase™ provides the qualities that are essential for meals to have a rich flavor and silky consistency.
For bouillons, soups and sauces
The gentle extraction ensures that the delicious taste, aroma, and nourishing attributes of the natural raw materials are concentrated in the stock. This makes ProBase™ a suitable foundation for bouillons and numerous soups, sauces and gravies, ensuring a superior result with the desired umami taste.
Animal-based or pescatarian flavor profiles
ProBase™ solutions are available as animal-based or pescatarian ingredients, in a wide variety of flavor profiles. They are available for industrial use as a paste or powder, depending on use or preference.
Natural fats for added richness
ProBase™ specialty fats add a rich taste, aroma, and texture to savory products. Additionally, they provide the desired fat droplets on the surface of soups, sauces or bouillons. The fats enliven foods by adding an enticing gloss to finished products. ProBase™ fats are rendered from pasture fed livestock and have no additives to alter their natural state. Options for frying are also available.
What is ProBase™?
ProBase™ stocks have concentrated flavors, derived through the slow cooking of bones and trimmings. This process releases their authentic properties which provide taste, aroma and a viscous mouthfeel.
The stocks provide an easy natural umami addition for use in a multitude of savory applications.
They are available as a convenient liquid paste. However, selected stocks are also available in powder form.
ProBase™ specialty fats are derived from bone marrow, tallow and fatty belly tissue.
Building a satisfying flavor profile
The flavor pyramid depicts the attributes of ProBase™ stocks and fats. They should be envisioned as significant building blocks, when creating a complete and satisfying flavor profile for your next savory launch.
ProBase™ stocks and fats can make up a solid foundation in many savory flavor profiles, and they also provide a clear flavor direction in the middle area with signature notes from the distinct species.
Building blocks can be stacked or assembled in any way, according to preference. However, the base is essential to all other blocks. Therefore, using ProBase™ stocks and fats, either separately or in combination – will help create a solid base with deep and meaty flavors.
Perfect building blocks for creating an authentic flavor profile in your savory product.
Top note
Final touch that adds character
In a bouillon or soup top notes would typically be bright, sharp, and vibrant flavors stemming from different types of herbs and seasonings.
Middle note
Specific flavor directions
The middle notes are typically neutral; thus, this is where ProBase™ stocks and fats provide a clear flavor direction of either beef, chicken, pork, lamb or one of the fish or seafood species. We refer to this distinct flavor as the Species’ Signature.
Base note
Natural umami foundation
The base has no flavor direction as such, but the bottom building blocks are the foundation for all other blocks. The foundation determines all the subsequent additions and flavors. The base notes are deep, meaty, heavy, smoky, warming flavors. In a bouillon or soup ProBase™ stocks and fats boost umami and deliver depth of flavor.
Essentia ingredient’s function
100% natural origins
Here at Essentia, our mission is to provide quality sustainable ingredients that most consumers understand and recognize. The ingredients are clean by nature and tie well into the desire for authentic food ingredients.
All carcasses including bones, trimmings, and fats used for our natural ingredients are sourced from EU-approved slaughterhouses, and all fish and seafood raw materials are from wild catch.
At Essentia we want to provide transparency about how and where raw materials are sourced, and we do this to contribute to establishing the highest level of trust throughout this area of your supply-chain.
Clean label
The origins of ProBase™ are completely natural with no GMO or artificial chemicals involved in any stage of development. This produces a low fat, authentic savory ingredient free of additives.
ProBase™ solutions have no additives so they have no list of ingredients because they are the only component in the solution.
Organic beef ingredients
Globally, 25% of consumers say that “organic” is the most important clean-label attribute to them. The organic food market has grown from negligible before the mid-90s to a global phenomenon valued at over 100 billion USD today. Consumer demand for organic products continues to rise, driven by a desire for higher quality and increased awareness of personal and environmental health.
At Essentia’s ingredient facility in Sweden, we source organic beef bones and trimmings in compliance with both KRAV and EU-certified organic standards. To add an organic-labeled product to your next launch, inquire about our premium ingredients..
*KRAV is the official body overseeing organic standards in Sweden. Our organic ingredient variants are produced from raw materials derived from both KRAV and EU-certified organic livestock.
Innovate with authentic stocks
The ProBase™ solutions are available in liquid or powder, depending on their application, for your convenience and the requirements for your recipe. They greatly reduce the inconvenience of sourcing materials and preparation time. They are readily available as a clean label ingredient, to be added to your recipe directly, for its natural taste, texture, and nutritional enhancement properties.
ProBase™ mixes easily and are storage stable with a shelf life of up 3 years in ambient temperatures (1 year for selected versions and 6 months for fish/seafood).
The base ingredient in a commercial stock product – also known as broth, fond, bouillon, fumet, etc.
Deliver natural umami and mouthfeel to soups in all formats (ambient, frozen, hydrolyzed, etc.)
In stock cubes, gels and other types of flavor enhancers.
Provide a meaty base and a clear flavor direction in different types of sauces and gravies.
Use as a building block ingredient in condiments and flavor mixes.
Specialty fats
The best choice in cooking
ProBase™ specialty fats are unique and versatile for use in your culinary and dietary practices. Rendered fats have been used for centuries in kitchens all around the world in baking, cookery, confectionery and even as a condiment or spread.
Essentia strives to deliver healthy, natural, and clean solutions in line with customer trends which demand healthy ingredients.
ProBase™ fats are a great option in cooking because the food gets a delicious umami taste, delightful aroma and a glossy finish.
The fats are rendered from beef, pork, lamb, or chicken to suit different savory applications.
Ideal for frying
ProBase™ fats are ideal for frying and give the result a crispy golden exterior, which is tender and juicy on the inside.
They are an excellent choice for frying or cooking at high heats, because they do not break down and oxidize to create harmful free radicals and toxic fumes like vegetable oils tend to do.
They are also higher in monounsaturated fats but have no trans fats which are good attributes for cardiovascular health.
Join the innovation
In the Innovation Centre, application technicians are at your disposal for queries on how you may get the best use out of Essentia solutions. Whether you require technical assistance or inspiration for your products, skilled personnel are willing to help you perfect your efforts.
Our experienced professionals will also help you to identify how you can use the Essentia ingredient range to fulfil claims and opportunities in tune with consumer trends.
Customized innovation sessions
Since our foundation, we have earned a reputation as market leaders in advanced meat-based ingredient solutions throughout various industries within the food sector. That is why we continue to invest in new manufacturing platforms, to drive product and process innovation in a more sustainable and cost-efficient manner.
In addition to customized innovation sessions, we offer a range of seminars where we provide training in the use of our ingredients and how they are in line with global food trends.
Innovating together brings more successful solutions to the table.
Understanding consumer preferences
Essentia is in the process of establishing sensory panels which will improve the gathering of fundamental data for all ingredients.
These groups will provide an optimal understanding of consumer tastes and preferences. Our sensory panels will also give manufactured ingredients a more accurate flavor profile, based on critical analyses of the characteristics of the ingredients.
State-of-the-art processing rooted in traditional cooking
Since Essentia started stock and broth production in the late 1990s, the manufacturing process has remained unchanged.
It basically involves cooking down bones and trimmings until they release their rich taste and texture – very similarly to what you would do in your own kitchen.
We are not adding anything. What we produce are natural, clean and authentic stocks rooted in time-honored traditions reminiscent of home cooking practices throughout the ages.
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Benefits of using ProBase™
Rooted in culinary traditions
Kitchen ingredients that consumers recognize and understand
Ideal base for a variety of savory applications
Ensuring excellent organoleptic benefits
Ties into mindful consumer choices
Upcycling natural raw materials
Using by-products obtained from livestock and seafood as the only ingredients in our stocks fits perfectly with the philosophy of nose-to-tail eating. This is done by using trimmings, bones and rendering the animal fats. The process enables the most use out of the entire animal, thus creating less waste and lowering our carbon footprint.
Cooking down leftovers and rendering fats is an environmentally friendly way of upcycling all parts of animals that would otherwise be considered waste or used for low-value commodities.
