Lemon Harissa Shrimp
Lemon harissa is a modern, on-trend flavour that differentiates a range. We develop the harissa heat and lemon balance to your brand.
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Product overview
Shrimp in a harissa-style sauce with honey and lemon. Entrée over couscous, rice or flatbread. Retail sauce pack (10 oz).
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
- Shrimp
- Sauce-packed (not breaded)
- Sauce
- Harissa-style: chili and spices balanced with honey and lemon
- Format
- Cook from frozen per the pack
- Ingredients
- Shrimp, Harissa-style sauce (chilli, spices, honey, lemon), Vegetable oil, Salt.
- Allergens
- Shrimp (crustacean)
- Basis
- per 100 g / per serving (140 g, about 10 shrimp)
- Energy
- 236 kcal / 330 kcal
- Fat
- 17.9 g / 25 g
- of which saturates
- 9.3 g / 13 g
- Carbohydrate
- 8.6 g / 12 g
- of which fibre
- 0.7 g / 1 g
- of which sugars
- 2.1 g / 3 g
- Protein
- 7.9 g / 11 g
- Sodium
- 529 mg / 740 mg
- Sodium targets
- Set per destination market. For sodium-sensitive markets such as Canada and the US, the formulation is reviewed against the applicable front-of-pack and sodium-claim thresholds before launch.
- Cooking
- Per pack, from frozen · Per pack, from frozen
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
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Market rationaleWhy this format?
Lemon-harissa sits in a thin part of an otherwise crowded set: locally there are six scampi SKUs and six herb-and-garlic shrimp SKUs, but only one lemon-harissa SKU. That makes it a line extension rather than a new category - it can trade on the frozen, cook-from-frozen shrimp habit already established at retail. Frozen carried 36% of UK retail seafood volume in 2023, and fresh-plus-frozen reached almost 80% of U.S. seafood consumption by 2021.
Where it playsChannel and occasion
Anchor in U.S. and Canadian grocery frozen seafood sets, merchandised beside scampi and garlic shrimp rather than in a separate international set; a 10 oz (283 g) dinner-for-two pack matches the existing local anchor. Secondary: UK/EU multiple-retail frozen prawn fixtures, where warm-water prawns were a top-five species by volume in 2023.
Product propositionWhat to differentiate?
Heat architecture: state and grade the heat (e.g. mild/medium) and balance it with lemon and a little sweetness so it reads flavour-first, not novelty heat. Sauce performance: a thick, clinging harissa glaze that cooks from frozen in one pan or on a tray without a watery purge - execution is the real differentiator here. Provenance and label: certified sustainable shrimp (BAP/ASC where available) and a short ingredient deck; with about 80% of U.S. seafood imported, origin and certification are visible trust cues.
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