REUTERS: Perdue Foods, one of America's largest chicken producers, said it will sell frozen chicken nuggets mixed with cauliflower, chickpeas and plant protein to address a growing demand for products combining meat and vegetables.
U.S. meat processing giant Tyson Foods on Thursday announced it will begin selling mixed-protein products, including sausages and meatballs that combine chicken with plants including chickpeas, black beans and quinoa. Nestle, the world's biggest packaged foods group, is aiming to sell a pea-based veggie patty called Awesome Burger under its U.S. plant-based Sweet Earth brand in the fall."This is just the first wave and over time we expect our products to show up in a lot of different grocery store aisles," Eric Christianson, Perdue's chief marketing officer, said in an interview on Friday.