THORMI HME is a plant-based protein ingredient made from pea protein, delivering a natural meat-like texture with a neutral flavour profile. Easy to season and highly versatile in sauces, fillings, soups, wraps and other hot dishes in professional kitchens. A flexible solution for both plant-based and hybrid food applications.
At our company, we have developed HME 3.0, which won the FFCR Helsinki 2026 Innovation Award.
Our HME-based chickenless in Coconut-Curry Sauce won the Gulfood 2025 Innovation Award as the best ready-to-eat product.
Our HME-based plant-based chickenless has been selected as the best plant-based food product in Estonia for 2026.
Ingredients: water, pea protein isolate, pea protein concentrate, potato starch, inactivated yeast, salt.
Nutritional value per 100g:
Energy: 861.7 kJ / 206.0 kcal
Protein: 37.1 g
Carbohydrates: 6.5 g (of which sugars: 0.5 g)
Fibre: 2.6 g
Fat: 3.8 g, of which saturated fatty acids: 0.9%
Salt: 1.0 g
Our main HME products:
Thormi HME 3.0 Shredded
Shape and structure: Fibrous, layered and irregularly shredded pieces with a realistic hand-pulled meat appearance. The structure combines medium-sized chunks, torn fibres and softer shredded elements, creating a juicy and natural cooked poultry-style texture.
Typical dimensions: Length: approx. 2–7 cm, width: approx. 0.5–3 cm, thickness: approx. 0.3–1 cm.
Recommended use: Ideal for a wide range of gourmet food applications, including sauced dishes, curries, pasta fillings, wraps, tacos, sandwiches, burgers, stir-fries, ready meals, pizza toppings, BBQ products and hot filling applications. The juicy and fibrous meat-like texture also makes the product highly suitable for warm and cold salad toppings, protein bowls, deli-style prepared foods and foodservice applications requiring visually appealing and flavour-absorbing plant-based protein components. One of THORMI’s bestselling HME formats and has already been selected by several Nordic HoReCa chains, and wholesalers. Products based on this format are used in the menus of hundreds of restaurants and professional kitchens across the Nordic region.
Flexibility: Excellent base for marinated, seasoned or ready-to-heat applications. Absorbs sauces and flavours efficiently while maintaining fibrous structure and bite. Also available pre-seasoned, marinated and natural alder-smoked upon request.
Thormi HME 3.0 mini
Shape and structure: Irregular shredded and flake-like pieces with a layered fibrous structure and meat-like appearance. The product contains a natural variation of smaller crumbs and larger flakes, creating a realistic hand-pulled texture. Suitable for direct use or further processing.
Typical dimensions: Larger flakes: approx. 1–4 cm, smaller particles and crumbs below 1 cm. Thickness: thin layered flakes with irregular geometry. Recommended use: Ideal for shredded and pulled-style plant-based applications, including wraps, tacos, pizza toppings, sandwiches, pasta dishes, ready meals, stir-fries, sauces, and filling applications. Flexibility: Suitable for seasoning, marinating, frying, roasting or mixing into prepared foods. Also available pre-seasoned, marinated and natural alder-smoked upon request.
Thormi HME 3.0 Strips
Shape and structure: Narrow, elongated, irregular strips and shards with fibrous, layered texture. Easily portionable and versatile for a wide range of applications.
Typical dimensions: Length: 2–6 cm o Width: 0.5–2 cm o Thickness: approx. 1 cm.
Recommended use: Perfect for stir-fries, wraps, tacos, salads, pasta dishes, soups, and ready meals. Can also be marinated and pan-fried for chicken-style strips.
Flexibility: Suitable as-is or for further cutting into even smaller pieces (minced or diced) depending on product development needs. Also available pre-seasoned, marinated and natural alder-smoked upon request.
Thormi HME 3.0 Large Chunks
Shape and structure: Large irregular chunky and layered pieces with pronounced fibrous orientation and dense, meat-like texture. The product combines thicker chunk-style cuts with naturally broken flakes and fibres, creating a realistic whole-cut appearance and bite.
Typical dimensions: Length: approx. 3–10 cm, width: approx. 2–6 cm, thickness: approx. 0.5–2 cm. Recommended use: Suitable for premium plant-based chicken-style applications, including ready meals, stir-fries, grilled products, skewers, wraps, salads, curry dishes, roasted applications, and hand-pulled or shredded meat analogue products. Can be further cut, shredded, marinated, roasted or pan-fried according to application requirements. Also available pre-seasoned, marinated and natural alder-smoked upon request.
Custom-Formatted Shapes for Human Food and Pet Food Applications
Shape and structure: Customisable shapes and formats ranging from shredded and flaked structures to cubes, chunks, strips or larger whole-cut style pieces, depending on application requirements. The texture is juicy, fibrous and meat-like.
Recommended use: Suitable for a wide range of human food and premium pet food applications. Formats, dimensions and texture profiles can be adapted according to customer requirements and end-use applications. For pet food applications, the final product can be enriched with additional nutrients (amino acids, vitamins, minerals, fatty acids) to comply with FEDI.