We are Motif FoodWorks
We are food techies and scientists, creating better foods with the best means possible.
Motif FoodWorks Launches Plant-Based, Finished Format Portfolio at the National Restaurant Association (NRA) Show
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We're creating the next
generation of delicious food.
What we offer:
Breakthrough Ingredients
Our taste and texture ingredients are new to market, and enhance the consumer eating experience.
Learn moreFinished Products for Foodservice
Juicy burgers, flavorful pork grounds, crispy chicken cutlets and mouthwatering cheese.
Learn moreBreakthrough Ingredients
Our taste and texture ingredients are new to market, and enhance the consumer eating experience.
Breakthrough Ingredients
Finished Products for Foodservice
Juicy burgers, flavorful pork grounds, crispy chicken cutlets and mouthwatering cheese.
We offer ingredient options that provide rich, satisfying flavors and aromas. Tempting, mouth-watering color. And meaty texture and juiciness. All without the use of animals.
Individual technologies and ingredient systems
LINEHEMAMI™
The real umami flavors, appearance and aromas of meat – without the animal. We’ve unlocked a step-change in what’s possible in meat alternatives.
LINEAPPETEX™
We literally recreated the texture of animal tissue – with plants. That means plant-based meat with the springy, juicy chewdown that consumers crave.
Finished meat alternatives
Motif BeefWorks™
Motif BeefWorks™ Plant-Based Burger Patties are created for foodservice providers, distributors, and retailers with private labels.
Motif ChickenWorks™
Motif ChickenWorks™ Plant-Based Cutlet are a crispy, juicy alternative created for foodservice providers, distributers, and retailers with private labels.
Motif CheeseWorks™
Plant-Based Cheese is a stretchy, melty cheese alternative created for foodservice providers, distributers, and retailers with private labels.
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We make plant-based food better by analyzing, discovering and designing differently
The result? Crave-worthy food that’s better
The result? Crave-worthy food that’s better
tasting, more nutritious and sustainable
How We Work
LINEAnalyze
differently
Nobody gets plant-based food like we do. Our new approaches extract deep technical and consumer insights
LINEDiscover
differently
Only cutting-edge thinking need apply. Our scientific expertise paired with an advanced network of partners allows us to discover plant-based breakthroughs in record time
LINEDesign
differently
It’s not one thing — it’s everything. Our holistic process balances sensory outcomes like taste and texture with deep technical, culinary and production know-how
LINEIn the news
In conjunction with creating a better eating experience, Motif aims to make plant-based foods a central component of the 21st-century food market — and it’s science of the 21st century that is moving them closer toward this ideal.
John Cumbers
John Cumbers
In a lab in Boston looking out onto a dry dock where ships are repaired, Motif FoodWorks is preparing to ramp up production of animal-free ingredients that make plant-based food taste better.
Alana Semuels
Alana Semuels
…solving the problem of protein for a growing global population is critical if the world is going to reverse course on climate change.. ...Investors think cultured proteins — fermented in tanks like brewing beer — could be an answer.
Jon Shieber
Jon Shieber
With the help of scientific experts across a range of food and academic disciplines and by embracing technology, [Motif FoodWorks aims] to create plant-based foods that people crave.
M. Campbell & K. Steward PhD
M. Campbell & K. Steward PhD
Ecosystem of Innovation
We have cultivated an ecosystem of innovation that helps us deliver solutions in alternative food. Read more about our innovation collaborations and research:
From amyloid fibrils to microfiber condensates: Tuning microfluidic coextrusion of food-grade β-lactoglobulin-pectin core-shell fibers by changes of protein structure
Read MoreFormation and characterization of plant-based amyloid fibrils from hemp seed protein
Read MoreMotif FoodWorks Partners with IngredientWerks on Research to Expand Technology Portfolio with Molecular Farming
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