Toppings & Crumbles for Ready Meals

Toppings & Crumbles For Ready Meals
Toppings and crumbles are used in a wide variety of sweet and savoury products, particularly ready meals and recipe dishes. They are a versatile range of ingredients that have 2 primary functions:
Texture enhancement

Toppings impart a light crispy texture, which is complimentary to the substrate (e.g. meat in sauce, fillet of fish) on which the topping is sprinkled.
Visual enhancement

Chaucer Food's toppings can be mixed with other ingredients e.g. cheese, to produce the ideal complete topping for recipe dishes and ready meals and a host of other modern convenience foods.
What applications?

Meat, fish, and poultry-based ready meals (in sauce)
Vegetable-based ready meals (in sauce)
Pasta dishes (e.g. tuna bakes, pasta bakes)
Sweet crumbles (e.g. apple crumbles)
Chilled or frozen fillets/escallops
Fish toppings
What functionality?

For more information on the functionality of toppings click here.
What product types?

For more information on the toppings product range click here.
What packaging?

Toppings are typically packed in 20kg cardboard boxes.
What shelf life?

Toppings have a typical shelf life of 12 months under normal storage conditions avoiding heat and direct sunlight.
What quality assurance?

Chaucer Food's UK manufacturing site is BRC (Higher) and ISO 9001 2000 accredited.
Why Chaucer?

Track record of creativity, novelty and innovation in developing exciting new ingredients for convenience foods.
Comprehensive and flexible product range to suit numerous end product applications.
Commitment to quality.
Do you need further information?

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