Natural, label-friendly solutions for meat and poultry

Our patented solutions enable high-quality, safe, and delicious meat and poultry products with clear, understandable labels. The Verdad portfolio enhances safety and shelf life by controlling pathogens and spoilage organisms, ensuring products remain fresh longer without compromising taste or texture.

Trust Verdad for natural vinegar ingredients that enhance safety and shelf life, meet consumer demand for transparent labels, and ensure high-quality, sustainable products that keep your operations efficient, and your consumers satisfied.

Verdad Vinegar

Patented and effective solutions, specially created to satisfy your demands for quality and safety

Verdad® vinegar ingredients provide a consumer-friendly way to protect your products and your customer's experience. Vinegar is produced by fermentation, a natural metabolic process used as a traditional manufacturing method for centuries in many cultures. Corbion's patented Verdad® vinegars provide a natural form of acetic acid in high concentration to deliver antimicrobial efficacy, and are buffered to avoid compromising the meat's flavor, texture, and water-holding capacity. These ingredients keep food safe and fresh by suppressing the growth of pathogens and a wide range of spoilage bacteria. And, because vinegars are generally recognized as kitchen cupboard ingredients, they are readily accepted by consumers.

Our vinegars – available in liquid and powder formats – are proven to control Listeria growth in cooked meats, and to extend shelf life in both fresh and cooked meats. Produced through the fermentation of a sugar substrate using specifically selected food cultures our patented portfolio was developed to help processors respond effectively to specific challenges.

The breadth of the portfolio offers the versatility needed to meet manufacturers' requirements in a wide variety of applications. Solutions vary by format (liquid or powder), acetic acid concentration, sodium content, buffering agent, and other factors to give formulators the latitude they need to achieve their product and market ambitions. 

*Corbion’s vinegar portfolio is developed based on regional needs and regulatory situation in each region/country.

Verdad Ferments

Unique ferment blends for a variety of clean label challenges

Fermentation is a centuries old process that imparts multiple benefits to a finished food product. Corbion's Verdad® Ferments harness the natural power of fermentation to provide simple labeling options like cultured sugar and vinegar, aligning with consumer preferences for recognizable ingredients. Our specialized ferments enhance flavor, improve texture, and increase microbiological stability in ready-to-eat meats such as sausages, hot dogs, and roast beef. 

When looking to maintain a clean label without sacrificing manufacturing efficiencies, Verdad ferments can help you solve for your product development and processing challenges. Whether it's reducing sodium without losing flavor, improving processing efficiencies, or ensuring microbial stability in high-moisture formulations, Corbion's expertise helps create superior protein products that meet evolving consumer demands.

Verdad Avanta

Elevate your uncured meats

Our Verdad® Avanta portfolio includes relatively low levels of nitrite-rich celery powder, which can be highly effective in creating the distinctive and all-important color, texture, and flavor consumers want and expect in uncured meats. These ingredients are processed to include an unusually small amount of organic matter, so they are less prone to creating discoloration problems. This allows you greater flexibility in the injection process, specifically the option of using higher injection pressure without the need for duplicative processing.

Curing has been used in meat preparation for centuries; traditional methods include various brines, injections, and rubs. For years, the modern meat industry has depended on sodium nitrite for creating cured meat products cost-efficiently; the additive has proven itself as a preservative and color fixative, and has provided a sure-fire way to deliver the defining characteristics meat lovers expect. 

Corbion's natural curing solutions help you meet those expectations with products that also offer more consumer-friendly labeling. They ensure you get the critical aspects of performance you need from a curing solution, including:

• Color enhancement and stabilization
• Delayed oxidation
• Pathogen control (e.g., Clostridium botulinum and Listeria monocytogenes)
• Inhibition of spoilage organisms (shelf-life extension)
• Flavor enhancement