Month: July 2020

Reduce sugar by up to 25% with Caramelized Sugar ingredients*

Sugar reduction through Caramelized Sugar application. Let’s focus on the term itself, Caramelized Sugar. Your eyes may focus on the word “sugar” but you need to take a hard look at the word “caramelized”. The caramelization of sugar is key to why the reduction of table sugar in a formulation is made possible.

Caramelized sugar is created with just sugar and water that’s cooked under pressure to just the right level of “caramelization”. That caramelization is what gives the sugar the ability to be used a very low usage rates for flavor modifications, masking properties with plant protein off-notes and so much more. The caramelization of sugar allows us to create a wide range of unique flavor profiles for each of our syrups and powders.

DOWNLOAD our “caramelized” peach cobbler recipe to see and taste for yourself how effective caramelized sugars are WITH table sugar reduction in A formulation.

OUR CARAMELIZED SUGARS ALLOW YOU TO REDUCE YOUR OVERALL USE OF SUGAR, WHILE ALSO PROVIDING ADDITIONAL BENEFITS AS FOLLOWS:

• Enhance Your Flavors
• Taste Modifier
• Provides Masking Properties to Eliminate Off Notes
  (such as in plant proteins)
• Provides Incidental Color
• Improves Mouthfeel
• Standardize Your Formulation

OF COURSE WE ALSO MEET ALL THE NECESSARY CLEAN LABEL REQUIREMENTS:

• Natural Flavor
• Kosher
• Non-GMO
• Gluten Free
• No Allergens
• No Additives
• No Preservatives
• No Sulfites

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS AVAILABLE IN:

• Organic Certified
• Non-GMO Project Verified
• Fair Trade Certified
• Halal Certified

Contact us today and request a sample for your next R&D food or beverage development project. You need Caramelized Sugars, You Just Don’t Know it Yet.

• NOTE: This sugar reduction finding is specific to this Peach cobbler application. Sugar reduction totals can vary from project to project.

Understanding the Flavor Modification Properties of Caramelized sugar Ingredients

Plant-based food development is exploding, from meatless to beverages and beyond. Developers are faced with the challenge of masking the off-notes and gritty textures plant proteins leave behind.

The solution to this quandary can be found with using low amounts of caramelized sugars in plant-based development projects. Let’s look at why using caramelized sugar ingredients makes sense.

What’s in a Name?

With caramelized sugar ingredients, the key word to focus on is “caramelized”. That’s because the secret to the flavoring strength of these ingredients is the caramelization of the sugar. Water and sugar, that’s all that goes in to making caramelized sugars and the list of benefits is impressively long.

• Masking properties with off-notes
• Flavor modifications
• Labels as natural flavor
• Cost savings
• Sugar reduction
• Low usage rates

Masking Properties

When caramelized sugars are used in plant-based food and beverage development, you receive the benefits of much improved flavoring and mouthfeel. That’s because the caramelization of the sugar smooths out a food system and essentially negates the off-notes you get with plant proteins. What you’re left with is a brighter more prominent flavor note and cleaner labeling in the end-product.

Cleaner Labels

Caramelized sugars are for flavor modifications, not sweetening. These ingredients are applied at low usage rates (.5-2% on average). So, sugar contribution on a nutrition listing is negligible and caramelized sugar can label under natural flavor or caramelized sugar.

Sugar Reduction

Reduce sugar usage with a sugar? Yes you can. That’s because caramelized sugars are for flavor modifications,, and the caramelization of the sugar can bolster sweet notes. So depending on the end-product you can actually reduce added sugar totals by 25%. Click here to learn more about sugar reduction with caramelized sugar.

Cost Savings

Because of the masking properties with plant-based food and beverages, developers will see a real cost savings. You’re able to lower the usage rate of expensive flavorings and masking agents for off-notes by including caramelized sugars in your formulations.

Summing it all Up

You can’t go wrong including caramelized sugar ingredients in your plant-based development projects. Eliminate plant protein off-notes, reduce sugar usage and realize a cost savings. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain using caramelized sugars. It’s that one ingredient you need, you just may not realize it yet.