Meat and other animal-sourced proteins have long been considered an integral part of the diets of athletes and fitness populations. In recent years, plant-based proteins have become increasingly popular due to their positive environmental and health effects.
●Rice protein
Rice protein is a high-quality and nutritious plant protein with high nutritional value, high digestibility, and hypoallergenic, and its biomass price of 77 is much higher than that of common cereal plant proteins, such as wheat and corn proteins and comparable to animal proteins, such as casein and whey proteins. In addition, rice protein also has a variety of physiological regulations, such as lowering cholesterol anti-cancer, and hypoglycemic effects. Researchers and scholars have launched a series of studies on rice protein, which has led to its wide application in food additives, high-protein nutritional powders, protein-containing beverages, edible coating, bioactive peptides, and so on.
Rice peptide is a mixture made from rice dregs and rice protein, a high value-added product with high nutrition, easy absorption, antioxidants, blood pressure, immune regulation, anti-fatigue, and other biological activities. Rice peptides can not only provide nutrients for the human body but also regulate the body's immunity, promote mineral absorption, scavenging excessive free radicals in the body, for the human body to prevent disease and maintain health has a significant impact. Existing studies have shown that rice peptides have a variety of biological activities, including antioxidant, hypotensive, immunomodulatory, hypoglycemic, anti-fatigue, and anti-cancer.
Rice peptide has high nutritional value, is hypoallergenic, has good functionality, biological solid activity, etc. It can be used as the main ingredient of food or added to the product, which industry scholars and consumers recognize well, and its application prospect is very broad, with plenty of space for development. According to research on rice protein peptide application, prospects can be divided into the following aspects.
(1) high protein drinks: thanks to the excellent solubility of rice protein peptide, it can be used to make high-plant protein drinks.
(2) Health food: rice protein peptide has suitable physiological activities such as antioxidants, blood pressure, cholesterol, immunomodulation, etc., so it has significant potential in the processing of healthy food and the development of new functional drinks and other areas.
(3) Formulated food for particular medical purposes: rice protein peptide excellent hypoallergenic properties, so that its antigenicity is lower than rice protein, is the gospel of food allergy; and because of the easy digestion and absorption of rice protein peptide, can be used as a rehabilitation of patients, immature digestive function of infants and young children and digestive system decline in the elderly food base, to develop a new food easy to be digested by such special populations.
(4) Sports nutrition food: rice protein peptide can enhance physical performance, recover from fatigue, have the effect of strengthening muscles, can quickly provide energy for the body, promote fat metabolism and recovery of physical strength, so it can be used to make protein-enhanced food for athletes or fitness people and energy supply drinks.
●Pea Protein
Pea protein, known as the "king of plant proteins," is an emerging plant protein that first appeared in Europe and the United States and is mainly used in solid protein powders, energy bars, breakfast cereals, baked goods, and other fields. Pea protein has recently become very popular in the plant-based market. Plant-based is a new type of plant-based food and beverage products, replacing animal proteins with plant proteins as the basic raw materials for research and development of new food and beverage products. With the gradual maturation of the plant-based market in Europe and the United States and the emergence of China, Southeast Asia, and other emerging markets, the plant-based market has broad prospects for development. It is expected that the future demand for pea protein in the downstream market for solid protein powder, energy bars, breakfast cereals, baked goods production, and other downstream markets will maintain a 20% to 30% growth, plant-based production of related downstream industry chain demand for pea protein will be a substantial increase. In contrast, high-end pet food companies, high-performance fish feed companies, and other downstream industry chains will also maintain steady growth in low-end protein production. In recent years, the global demand for pea protein has increased significantly; pea protein is ushering in broad development prospects in an unprecedented golden period.
