Herb & Garlic Shrimp Skewer
Herb & garlic skewers are a family-friendly, grill-ready item with strong repeat purchase. We produce them plain or with vegetables, to your skewer count.
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Product overview
Raw shrimp pre-threaded with a herb & garlic glaze. Grill/BBQ, family meals. 4-skewer retail packs to bulk foodservice.
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, pre-threaded skewers (ready to grill)
- Base
- Tail-on or tail-off shrimp; some lines add vegetables
- Marinade
- Herb & garlic glaze/marinade; plain tail-on skewers also available
- Ingredients
- Shrimp, Glaze (water, sugars, garlic powder, onion powder, modified tapioca starch, yeast extract, salt, herbs, spice extracts, citric acid), Dextrose, Garlic, Salt, Maltodextrin, Milk powder, Onion.
- Allergens
- Shrimp (crustacean); milk and soy in some lines
- Basis
- per 100 g / per serving (116 g)
- Energy
- 76 kcal / 88 kcal
- Fat
- 1.4 g / 1.6 g
- of which saturates
- 0 g / 0 g
- of which trans
- 0 g / 0 g
- Cholesterol
- 118.5 mg / 137.5 mg
- Sodium
- 264.8 mg / 307.2 mg (13% DV per serving)
- Carbohydrate
- 7.9 g / 9.2 g
- of which fibre
- 0.4 g / 0.5 g
- of which sugars
- 1.6 g / 1.9 g
- of which added sugars
- 0.7 g / 0.8 g
- Protein
- 12 g / 13.9 g
- Vitamin D
- 0.1 mcg / 0.1 mcg
- Calcium
- 36 mg / 41.8 mg
- Iron
- 0.4 mg / 0.5 mg
- Potassium
- 215.7 mg / 250.2 mg
- Sodium · market requirement
- Final sodium target is set per destination market. For Canada and the US, the formulation is reviewed against the applicable front-of-pack and sodium-claim thresholds before launch.
- Internal temperature
- 145–165°F (63–74°C) depending on the product — follow the pack
- Cooking
- Medium heat, ~4–8 min, turning · 400–450°F, 8–24 min depending on the pack
Packaging, storage temperature and shelf life are confirmed per the agreed specification.
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
An evidence-based view of why this format exists, where it sells, and what to develop. Product-line counts come from Ecosea's own market scan; market figures are from public sources, linked below.
Market rationaleWhy this format?
The skewer is a value-added hardware format: pre-marinated, pre-threaded shrimp removes prep and threading labour, locks in portion control, and cooks evenly from frozen across grill, oven and air-fryer. Local evidence shows every SKU in this set is a prepared cooking-ready format (4 of 5 pre-seasoned or glazed), so herb & garlic is already the category's default cue rather than an upsell. With a deep, established US shrimp supply base (NOAA: 2024 white shrimp landings of 107 million lb worth $159 million) and heavy import dependence (ERS/NOAA: 75-90% of US seafood consumption is imported), the format competes on convenience and consistency rather than commodity pricing.
Where it playsChannel and occasion
Plays hardest in grill-led and out-of-home seafood occasions: BBQ and surf-and-turf sides/toppers, air-fryer weeknight meals, and entertaining/dinner-party platters. Locally the skewer is a cross-channel item - single-meal retail packs, bulk resealable DTC boxes and high-count foodservice cases - with Canada as the dominant region. Out-of-home seafood is recovering (Seafish: ~140,000 tonnes and GBP 5.9 billion eaten out of home in 2023; pubs +28%), which supports foodservice/pub and casual-dining placement alongside retail club/bulk and 2-serving meal packs.
Product propositionWhat to differentiate?
Skewer hardware and cook-from-frozen ease: choose and message stick type (bamboo vs hardwood vs paddle-handle) and whether it cooks reliably from frozen. Marinade formulation: position a shorter, cleaner herb-and-garlic build (shrimp + salt + real herbs/garlic) against glazes built on phosphates, yeast extract and added sugars, and flag relative allergen load (gluten/soy/milk are present in some local formulations). Pack architecture: flex between 2-serving meal packs, 4-skewer retail trays and 20-25-skewer resealable bulk/club packs, and between tail-on vs tail-off builds.
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