Cargill’s ingredients and expertise help you deliver better cooking ingredients and ready meals people love.
From ideation to launch, our cooking ingredients and ready meals experts help you put our comprehensive ingredient portfolio, market knowledge, and deep technical expertise to work.
Learn more about how Cargill’s insights can help you keep up with market trends and stay a step ahead of the competition. Our Ready Meals Insights Report gives you fresh data and insights to create in-demand ready meals in today’s fast-paced marketplace.
We’ll work side-by-side with you to solve complex challenges and create great-tasting, label-friendly meals. And with our reliable supply chains, you can scale, grow, and thrive.
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Featured Ingredient Categories by Region
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North America
- Cocoa & Chocolate
- Edible Oils
- Sweeteners
- Texturizing Solutions
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Europe, Middle East, Africa
- Cocoa & Chocolate
- Edible Oils
- Sweeteners
- Texturizing Systems
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Latin America
- Cocoa & Chocolate
- Fats and Oils
- Starches & Dextrins
- Sweeteners
Explore Applications
Egg Stabilizers
Cargill specialty starches can be used to stabilize egg protein and provide refrigeration and freeze/thaw stability to the finished product.
Flavor Encapsulation
Our portfolio includes not only classic emulsions such as citrus, neutral cloud and colored emulsions, but also includes more exotic flavor emulsions like pomegranate, soursop, strawberry and cactus.
Oils, Fats & Spreads
Cargill can help you achieve stable emulsions with a wide assortment of starches, maltodextrins, hydrocolloids, emulsifiers and functional blends.
Ready Meals
Our expertise in freeze/thaw stability and microwave quality combined with quality ingredients equals the perfect ready meal.
Retorted Soups & Canned Products
Hydrocolloids, lecithins, sweeteners, salt, starches and derivatives. Everything you'll need for the perfect retorted soup or canned product.
Sauces, Dressings & Dips
Cargill’s technical experts deliver high-quality products ensuring smooth textures, consistent dispersion of flavors and improved freeze/thaw stability.
Rubs & Marinades
A wide array of ingredients for developing perfect seasonings and rubs.
Ready Meals Ingredients - North America

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Some Cargill products are only approved for use in certain geographies, end uses, and/or at certain usage levels. It is the customer's responsibility to determine, for a particular geography, that (i) the Cargill product, its use and usage levels, (ii) the customer's product and its use, and (iii) any claims made about the customer's product, all comply with applicable laws and regulations.