Meal components
We expand our perspective each and every day, continuously questioning our approach. For example, we asked ourselves: “Why, instead of just offering poultry, don’t we also offer complete meal solutions?” This inspired the development of meal components such as cut vegetables, sauces, and dressings. These versatile ingredients help our partners and consumers create balanced and flavorful meals with ease, perfectly aligning with our ambition to deliver practical and innovative food solutions.
Our beliefs
The world is transforming! By 2050, people will eat differently than today. And the change is already happening. We believe the future of foods is built around five key pillars: Health, Sustainability, Convenience, Affordability and Indulgence. As a meal components supplier we want to support and accelerate this transformation. How will Plukon food group distinguish itself in meal components? Very simple, it only takes three words: ‘value for money’. Not only in our products, but also in our services. After all, we’re not a producer, nor a supplier. We are category builders – with our customers – for our consumers!
Components as a separate business
Our business in Convenience meals needs different meal components. Throughout the years we established strong partnerships with our component suppliers. At the same time we also started to compose and produce components ourselves. As this gradually grew bigger, we decided to valorize these components as a separate business segment.
Where we play
Our meal components products can be split into four segments: Cut vegetables, Carbohydrates, Fruits and finally Sauces and Dressings. With ingredients from our supply partners we make our ready to (h)eat meal components in our plants in Wezep, Dronten and Olen. We remain predominantly a private label specialist for European Retail, Foodservice, QSR and B2B partners. For more information you can always contact us here.
Cut vegetables
Our Ready to eat vegetables are leafy greens or vegetables that can be used in salads or meals and are ready to be eaten straight from the bag. Well-known examples are our Country mix salad bag or grated carrots bag. Our Ready to heat vegetables can be used in hot meals straight from the bag, but must be heated. The vegetables can be single varieties or mixed in a pre-mix to be used in a specific way. Our top runners in this segment are our Stir frymixes, Italian dishmixes or pre-cut green beans. All our vegetable products are cut, washed, safely packed automatically and ready to be shipped right after. Upon request we can make any possible variant to meet the consumer demand.
Carbohydrates
What we put as carbohydrates in our Convenience meals, we also produce and sell separately. This segment comprises mainly our cooked grains, pasta’s, and potato components. The products are sold in a bigger bag or tray, suitable for the Foodservice or B2B channel.
Fruits
Warm fruit preparations are indispensable as a side dish with your winter preparations and in the game kitchen. We have developed a range based on the tastiest apples and pears, with delicious sauces. The products are sold in a bigger bag or tray, suitable for the Foodservice or B2B channel.
Sauces and dressings
Our sauces consist of the tastiest ingredients that were specially selected by our developers to meet our high-quality standards. Our sauces are made from scratch, are easy to heat up and have a long shelf life. They are the perfect base for the meals in restaurants and for caterers. A few examples are our Mushroom sauce, Tomato sauce and Stroganoff sauce. Next to our sauces we also have an inhouse production of dressings. These are used in our salads. Upon request of the customer we can easily and quickly develop specific dressings to meet the demand.
