Discover our products’ main benefits
  • Standardize sensory profile and appearance
  • Highly capable to bind to and control water
  • Provides excellent stability
  • Allows texture adjustments

Explore our line of ingredients:

ALGINATE

Category: Thickeners / Stabilizers

Brand name: GELCARIN®, VISCARIN®

Manufacturer: IFF

Applications: Confectionery products, Bakery – fillings, Restructured fruits and vegetables, Restructured meat and fish, fruit preparations

Features:

Alginate is a polysaccharide produced from brown algae, which contains alginic acid salts, a basic raw material to produce alginates.

Brown algae are found in abundance mainly in cold water areas in many countries. DuPont® alginates are produced in France, where the algae used are from the Laminaria species, found along the coast.

In different applications, alginates can be stabilizers, thickeners and/or gelling agents.

STABILIZER BLENDS

Category: Thickeners / Stabilizers

Brand name: METHOCEL™, WELLENCE™, GELSTAR® and GRINDSTED® VEG

Manufacturer: IFF

Applications: Bakery products, Creams and Sauces, Bake stable Fillings, Frozen Products, Whipped Cream, Emulsions, Gluten-Free Baked Goods, Breaded food, Fried food, Frozen Desserts, Ice Cream, Yogurt, Drinkable and Spoonable Fermented Beverages.

Features:

Methocel™ is a highly versatile line of plant-based stabilizers that help many products—from whipped cream to ready meals and snacks—to maintain their shape and texture from production to consumption, even after production, packaging, shipping, freezing, thawing, and reheating. They also allow food manufacturers to produce healthier, lower fat, vegetarian, and vegan food that are gluten-free, egg-free, without compromising taste, appearance or feel. MC (methylcellulose) and HPMC (hydroxypropylmethylcellulose).

Wellence™ is a mixture of two hydrocolloids: HPMC (hydroxypropylmethylcellulose) and MC (methylcellulose) that provide food manufacturers with easy-to-use and cost-effective solutions, perfected for health-related applications, including gluten substitution and fat reduction.

Gelstar® is a blend of stabilizers that provides body and mouthfeel. It can be used to replace part of the fat in some applications. This ingredient slows down the growth of ice crystals in frozen products, providing greater firmness to extruded products.

GRINDSTED® VEG is a blend of stabilizers to be applied in yoghurts and fermented beverages (drinkable and spoonable). This ingredient offers good creaminess and prevents syneresis.

CARRAGEENAN

Category: Thickeners / Stabilizers

Brand name: LACTOGEL®

Manufacturer: IFF

Applications: Ice cream, Low sugar jams, Emulsified meat products

Features:

Carrageenan is a textured ingredient with extremely effective gelling properties. It is produced from red algae, which can be found along the coasts of the entire world.

Red algae produce three different types of carrageenan: kappa, iota and lambda. Kappa carrageenan forms a cold gel in the presence of potassium ions or proteins, while iota requires the presence of calcium ions to form a gel. Lambda is unable to form gels, but it can be used to control viscosity. Most commercial carrageenans consist of a blend of the three types.

CMC

Category: Thickeners / Stabilizers

Brand name: TEXTURECEL ™

Manufacturer: IFF

Applications: Protein beverages, ice cream

Features:

Walocel™ is a water soluble high purity sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), being an excellent thickener, stabilizer and binder. Available in a wide variety of viscosities, which allows it to be used in numerous applications.

GUAR

Category: Thickeners / Stabilizers

Brand name: GRINDSTED® Guar

Manufacturer: IFF

Applications: Sauces, Ice cream, Cakes, Beverages, and Animal feed

Features:

Guar gum is obtained from seeds of the legume called Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, grown in India, Pakistan and Texas, USA.

As a result of its high water-binding capacity, guar gum provides high viscosity in water-based systems, even at low dosage levels. It is mainly used as a thickening agent, being stable at pH values between 3 and 11. In addition, it has good solubility in cold water and excellent synergy with xanthan gum.

LBG

Category: Thickeners / Stabilizers

Brand name: GRINDSTED® LBG

Manufacturer: IFF

Applications: Desserts, Ice creams, Fruit preparations, Bakery products, Sauces, and Animal feed

Features:

LBG is a texture ingredient produced from the seed of locust beans (Ceratonia siliqua), which grows in Mediterranean countries.

Locust bean seeds consist of three different parts: the husk around the seed, the germ (protein) and the endosperm (gum).  The latter is the part used to produce LBG.

It is mainly used as a thickening agent, due to its property of providing high viscosity to water-based systems. It is not capable of forming gel by itself, however it has a high power to strengthen the gel in combination with carrageenan or xanthan.

HYDROCOLLOID MIX

Category: Thickeners / Stabilizers

Brand name: AVICEL, VISCARIN and LACTOGEL®

Manufacturer: IFF

Applications: Bakery product fillings, Ice Cream and Desserts, Alcoholic or non-alcoholic dairy and non-dairy beverages, heavy cream, Whipped Cream, Plant-based Cream, and Emulsions

Features:

Avicel® is a microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) that may or may not be combined with CMC. It works at different temperatures and provides superior stability to the freezing / thawing and heating of finished products and improves the texture and stability of many food products.

PECTIN

Category: Thickeners / Stabilizers

Brand name: GRINDSTED® Pectin

Manufacturer: IFF

Applications: Fruit preparations, Sweets and confectionery products, Beverages

Features:

Pectin is a branched polysaccharide consisting mainly of polymers of galacturonic acid, rhamnose, arabinose and galactose.

It is one of the main components of plant cell walls and the main component of the middle lamella.

Pectin is able to form a gel network when solubilized, so its function is to provide structure to sweets and jams, as well as guarantee the characteristic texture of these products. Pectin provides gelation, viscosity, texture and protein stability for various food applications.

XANTHAN

Category: Thickeners / Stabilizers

Brand name: GRINDSTED® Xanthan

Manufacturer: IFF

Applications: Desserts, Ice creams, Fruit preparations, Bakery products, Sauces, and Animal feed

Features:

Xanthan gum is a polysaccharide produced from the microorganism Xanthomonas campestres, through fermentation.

Xanthan gum is used mainly as a thickening agent, but it is also known for its efficiency as a stabilizer in suspensions, emulsions, and solid particles in water-based formulations. It has high resistance to enzymatic degradation, it is extremely stable over a wide range of pH values and temperatures and in high concentrations of alcohol, making it suitable for an excellent range of applications.

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