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Featured Ingredients is Food Dive’s bite-sized column highlighting interesting developments in the ingredients sector.
Lycrored, a wellness company and ingredient manufacturer, is currently committed to understanding the full benefits and potential of tomatoes.
Lycored focuses on improving nutritional profiles, enhancing flavor, and simplifying ingredient lists through the production of taste-enhancing products.
The company sells lycofiber, which has a variety of uses, including lycofiber, which emulates the texture of natural vegetables in foods without the use of emulsifiers, and Santé and CTC’s clear tomato concentrate products, which enhance taste and reduce usage. We manufacture food ingredients. Added sugar and sodium.
Sante’s production is Tomato serum that enhances natural and clean label taste CTC, Clear Tomato Concentrate, starts with red tomatoes.
CTC acts as a natural tomato “add-back” taste improver. This means it acts as a bulking agent for tomato paste, providing a sweet tomato-tart taste with a smooth balancing effect. According to the company, this ingredient is ideal for tomato-based food applications, bringing a balanced flavor profile to savory dishes such as soups, condiments, and sauces.
“SANTE provides umami and richness with reduced acidity, reducing the need for and serving as a replacement for salt, added sugars, MSG, yeast, etc. In the case of CTC, Brix, natural tomatoes The combination of taste, sweetness and acidity enhances flavor and creates roundness and balance in foods,” said Caroline Schroeder, head of global marketing at Lycored, in a statement to Food Dive.
“After the harvested red tomatoes are washed, the skin, seeds and stems are removed and recycled into the animal feed industry.”
Then the tomatoes are crushed, pulped, degassed, heated and cooled. Tomato fibrous pulp and liquid serum are separated and dried, and tomato fibrous pulp and liquid serum are separated.
“Both SANTE and CTC are used to enhance the consumer dining experience in both savory and sweet applications,” said Schroeder.
The company is now looking at ways to improve other ingredients.
“Since bringing these solutions to market, our team has continued to test application opportunities to better understand and uncover ways to enable brands to develop innovative products. ” said Schroeder.
In addition to reducing sodium and added sugar reduction potential, Sante simultaneously enhances the sweetness of the formulation due to the neutral taste aspect it provides and works synergistically with other sweetness-enhancing ingredients, the company said. said.
The LycoFiber ingredient helps brands achieve “unique texture and product stability not possible with other texturizers,” he said. schrader.
This ingredient works by “providing a pleasant, natural pulp fiber mouthfeel, unlike slimy alternative stabilizers such as gums and starches.”
