Top 10 Plant-Based Meat Companies Worldwide

Have you ever wondered what plant-based Meat is?

The word Plant-Based itself defines that the products are made from a plant. Plant-Based Meat is Meat that does not contain any animal meat but is purely made up of plants. These products include vegetarian-friendly alternatives. Nowadays, people are opting for more vegetarian diets and becoming vegans, so this plant-based Meat has become a perfect option.

Plant-based products are an excellent source of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. In addition, there are many health benefits of these products, as trusted research shows that plant-based Meat can be helpful for weight management, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease.

Plant-Based products include:

• burgers
• ground meat
• sausages
• chicken
• scampi
• prawns
• salmon
• tuna

Companies that manufacture plant-based meat products are:

1. Amy’s Kitchen
2. Beyond Meat
3. Conagra
4. Impossible Foods
5. Kellogg
6. Kraft Heinz Company
7. Maple
8. Nestle
9. Tyson
10. Unilever

1.  Amy’s kitchen

Amy’s Kitchen was founded in 1987 by Andy and Rachel Berliner, around 30 years ago, Headquarters in California. It’s a family owned, privately held company that manufactures organic food, vegan food, gluten free product, and frozen food. The company produces more than 250 products and there sales are in over 23 different countries. The company employs more than 2,700 people. Amy’s is widely available in the United States and Canada, and increasingly available in other countries such as Great Britain, Germany, and Australia. Distribution is growing in Latin America, Southeast Asia and China. The company has over 120 vegan offerings and produces over 130 gluten-free products.  Amy’s has safeguards to assure that these items contain less than 20 ppm of gluten, considered gluten-free per the FDA definition.

2. Beyond Meat

Beyond meat was established in 2009, 12 years ago by Ethan Brown, headquarters in California. The company deals in plant-based meat substitutes. They offers plant-based meat products in the categories such as beef, pork and poultry. There are over 500 employees in the company. Beyond Meat products are available in approximately 118,000 retail and foodservice outlets in over 80 countries worldwide. There top performing products include Burger, Beef, Sausage, Meatballs and etc.

3. Conagra (Gardein)

Conagra sales plant-based meat products under a brand name Gardein. Conagra Brands, Inc. (formerly ConAgra Foods) is an American consumer packaged goods holding company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded by Frank Little and Alva Kinney in 1919, headquartered in Illinois.

Gardein was acquired by conagra in 2018. Gardein only operates in plant-based products which includes
Chicken, turkey, beef, pork, and fish meals.

4. Impossible Foods

The company Impossible Foods was started in 2011, 10 Years ago by Patrick O. Brown. The company headquarters in
California, United States. Impossible foods operate in plant-based substitutes for meat products. The company’s signature product is Impossible Burger. Their other products include Sausage, Chicken Nuggets, Pork, and Meatballs. It is one of the biggest company in Plant-Based products.

5. Kraft Heinz (Boca Burger)

Boca Burger is one of the brands of the biggest food company Kraft Heinz. The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC), generally known as Kraft Heinz, is an American multinational food company formed by the merger of Kraft Foods and Heinz co-headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2015. They have nearly 39,000+ employees around the world. Their brands are truly global, with products produced and marketed in over 40 countries.

Boca-Burger plant-based meat products include burger patties, crumbles and chicken nuggets.

6. Nestle (Garden Gourmet)

Garden Gourmet is a Nestle Brand for plant-based products. Nestle was founded in 1866, around 155 years ago by Henri Nestle. In today’s time company employee’s more than 273K people around the world.

Garden Gourmet products are free of artificial flavors and preservatives. Their vegetarian products fall under four categories: Daily Favorites, Veggie Creations, Chef’s Ingredients, and Mezze Selections.

7. Maple Leaf

Maple Leaf was founded around 100 years ago in Canada. It is one of the biggest food companies. They employees around 13500 people. Maple Leaf brands Lightlife and Field Roast deals in plant-based products.

Lightlife and Field Roast, both the companies plant-based products are burger, hot dog, sausages and tempeh.

8. Tyson

Tyson Foods, Inc. is an American multinational corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas, that functions in the food industry. It was founded in 1935 by y John W. Tyson. They employees more than 141K employees. Its brand Raised & Rooted deals in plant-based meat products. The variety of products includes burger, sausage, and nuggets.

9. Unilever

Unilever brand The Vegetarian Butcher produces plant-based meat products. The Vegetarian Butcher has expanded from just one store in 2010 to 4000 sales outlets in 17 countries. The company employees around 400 people. It was founded by  Niko Koffeman in 2010.

10. Kellogg

Kellogg was founded by Will Keith Kellogg in 1906. Kellogg’s products are manufactured and marketed in over 180 countries. Kellogg  brands morningstar farm and Incogmeato produces plant-based meat products. The products includes burger, chicken tenders, sausages, chicken nuggets, and chicken strips.