SMART INGREDIENTS
Texture, functionality and clean label in one ingredient Tate & Lyle operates across three core platform areas: sweeteners; health and wellness and texturants. Instant starches in the texturants range can deliver structural and functional properties that provide a unique set of textural attributes in a variety of applications. Instant starches are perfect for adding texture to a variety of sauces and condiments
labelling simply as corn or tapioca starch. Claria Functional clean-label starches were developed through a proprietary processing technology that enables starch granules to remain intact throughout different processing conditions. ‘Over the years, we have broadened our range of these products and can provide texturising solutions across a range of different applications. The range is based on maize starches, which provide thickening functionality and tapioca starches with exceptionally clean texture and a slight gelling characteristic,’ Storms points out. Claria’s instant starches meet the demand for clean-label solutions in high-sugar recipes, such as bakery fillings and salad dressings. In the latter, formulators use cold processes and require instant functionality to deliver texture. On the sweetener platform, technical advancements coupled with consumer demand for sugar and calorie reduction is driving the acceleration and development of sweetening ingredients. At the forefront of sugar reduction is a Tate &Lyle’s Dolcia Prima Allulose. The ingredient differs from most low calorie sweeteners as it delivers the functionality of sugar without the
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calories. This makes it a good solution he portfolio features just over
as firm texture and creamy mouthfeel
for sugar reduction in bakery, ice cream,
75 instant starches - designed
at an affordable price. The starch
confectionery, beverage and many
to address dispersion control,
also provides exceptional high-shear
other categories.
process tolerance, stability and clean
process tolerance. This makes it ideal
label in soups, sauces, dressings, snacks
for intensive food processes such as
and bakery products.
dressing emulsification through
‘Tender-Jel 387 Starch is an instant thickener, which enables several benefits and delivers a firm, creamy
colloid mills or maintaining the shape of bakery fillings. In addition to functional benefits,
texture in condiments, sauces and
there is a need for clean label
dressings,’ explains Abigail Storms, vice
starches and manufacturers are busy
president, global strategic marketing
reformulating to deliver clean-
and sweetener platform lead. ‘The starch
label products.
disperses comparably to agglomerated
“Tender-Jel 387 Starch is an instant thickener, which enables several benefits and delivers a firm, creamy texture in condiments, sauces and dressings”
Functional clean label starches are
starches and features a lower cost-in-
an important innovation in the bakery
use than other competitive solutions.’
industry. These ingredients provide the
caramelisation, texture, freezing point
functionality of modified starch with
depression and bulk during processing.
the performance formulators need while
You can recreate a gummy candy using
This enables formulators to achieve the desired product attributes, such
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Food Review | January 2020
The ingredient brings browning,
