When responsibly sourcing meats and proteins, international food company Cuisine Solutions – which operates within the airline, hospitality, and food services industries – ensures higher quality and safety while reducing environmental impact and promoting ethical practices.
At Cuisine Solutions, the world’s leading manufacturer of sous vide products, their team is committed to sourcing the highest-quality meat from reputable farms and suppliers throughout the country, taking into account how the animal was raised, what it was fed, and how it was treated.
Over the last 20 years, the company has built an extensive network of suppliers down to the farm level with a majority of beef and lamb coming from New Zealand and Australia, as well as throughout South America including Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.
The company primarily sources grass-fed and grass-finished beef, allowing for no antibiotics or hormones.
The animals are raised humanely, and the final product is higher in beneficial nutrients like Omega-3s and CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) while containing less monounsaturated fat than grain-fed beef.
The process from farm to Cuisine Solutions plant is operated seamlessly with full traceability and documentation across the supply chain. For the company’s top-selling sliced beef sirloin, the CS team can trace the work directly back to the farm.
Apart from their beef, Cuisine Solutions’ thoughtful sourcing includes the cage-free eggs for their Signature Sous Vide egg bites.
Cage-free eggs come from ethically-raised chickens with an all-vegetarian diet, allowing for a more nutritious, richer-flavored egg.
The bacon used by Cuisine Solutions is also fully Prop 12 compliant, which addresses the confinement of animals like pigs. This is an extra step the company takes to ensure the animals are taken care of, resulting in a better and more flavorful product for the consumer.
The company has the same level of traceability and care down to the farm level for their salmon from Chile and their lamb from Australia.
They source with the firm ethos that what is good for the consumer must also be good for the animal.
Cuisine Solutions visits each location annually, building relationships with the farmers while monitoring the processing facilities.
CEO Felipe Hasselmann and Chairman Stanislas Vilgrain personally visit the farms each year to check on the animal welfare, employee treatment, the farms’ sanitation, and the setup of the organization.
They make sure there is QA staff on hand that is dedicated to working with Cuisine Solutions to ensure food safety and quality. They also look at different cuts of meat and how they may lend themselves better to the application of sous vide.
An example would be their sous vide beef shank, in which the cooking process hydrolyzes the fat and breaks down the collagen, creating a more flavorful product.
About Cuisine Solutions: Led by an international team of award-winning chefs, Cuisine Solutions is the world’s leading manufacturer of sous vide products — the innovative, precise-cooking technique the company pioneered, perfected, and popularized decades ago.
Headquartered in Sterling, Virginia, Cuisine Solutions services more than 30,000 restaurants and 6,000 retailers, as well as major airlines and hotels. For more information, visit Cuisine Solutions website.
