Garlic Butter Shrimp Skewer
Garlic-butter skewers are a grill-ready, value-added format for foodservice and deli counters. We produce them raw and marinated, ready for the grill.
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Product overview
Raw shrimp pre-threaded on skewers in a garlic-butter marinade. Grill/BBQ, foodservice entrée. Foodservice skewer packs.
Applications
- Retail frozen
- Ready to cook
- Foodservice
Product information
Reference data for the displayed configuration. Confirm the final specification for your market before launch.
- Species
- Vannamei
- Format
- Raw, marinated, pre-threaded skewers
- Marinade
- Garlic butter (garlic, butter, oil, spices)
- Ingredients
- Typical build (no supplier panel published): Shrimp, Butter, Garlic, Vegetable oil, Salt, Spices, Herbs, Sodium phosphate.
- Allergens
- Shrimp (crustacean), milk
Nutrition information is available on request for the agreed recipe, serving size and destination market.
- Cooking
- Cook from raw per the pack until cooked through
- Channel
- Foodservice / value-added seafood line
Options & variations
Indicative configurations for this product line. Pack format, shrimp count, coating, treatment and preparation can be specified to your brief — not every combination is standard, so confirm availability before the first sample.
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The development opportunity
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Market rationaleWhy this format?
Garlic-butter shrimp skewers convert a familiar, easy-to-love flavour into a ready-to-cook, value-added format. Shrimp is already a top-selling seafood protein in the U.S. and most of it is imported, so a marinated skewer competes on convenience and consistency rather than on raw shrimp commodity. The format removes preparation and seasoning decisions: portioned, pre-marinated, cook-from-raw, and visually distinctive on a skewer.
Where it playsChannel and occasion
Primary fit is U.S. value-added seafood across chain and independent supermarkets, club stores, gourmet/grocery and foodservice. Positioning suits the frozen and prepared/coated seafood segments that have shown the strongest volume growth in the UK, and the prepack-dominated retail environment where shoppers prioritise minimal handling and easy cooking. Foodservice fits grill, catering and 'restaurant-quality at home' occasions.
Product propositionWhat to differentiate?
Ingredient and flavour transparency: publish the marinade/sauce spec and allergen profile (e.g. butter/dairy, garlic, sulfites) where B2B pages currently omit it, so retail and operators can clear it through labelling and dietary screening. Format and portion engineering: consistent skewer count/weight, cook-from-raw timing cues, and packaging that protects glaze and shrink in frozen/chilled display. Origin and handling story: lead with a verifiable sustainability/management or provenance claim and a clean protein-nutrition angle (shrimp is low in saturated fat and high in protein, selenium and B12).
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