Formulating consumer-winning foods and beverages is a delicate science. Not only do products have to taste outstanding and leave a lasting impression on your target consumers, they must also appeal to other, less tangible senses in order to compete on the shelves.
Hydrocolloids are among the most versatile and utilised ingredients available to today’s food and beverage industry. They can improve texture, add functionality and are used in smaller dosages, enabling cost-saving opportunities.
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From improving the texture of a gluten-free muffin to stabilising a non-protein dairy drink; hydrocolloids can provide the tools you need to formulate or reformulate to satisfy key trends and achieve the textures, consistency and visual appeal consumers crave and expect.
Gum acacia, also known as gum arabic, is the dried exudate gathered from acacia trees that grow in the Sahelian region of Africa. Used widely in beverages, confectionery and a wide variety of food applications, its features include:
- Emulsifies and stabilizes flavours and beverages
- Encapsulates flavours
- Forms films and coatings in panned confections
- Enhances mouthfeel in beverages
- Strong adhesive and binding properties
Product range includes:
TIC Pretested® Gum Arabic Spray Dry Powder
Applications: Beverage concentrates, flavour, colour and nutritional oil emulsions, confectonery - hard candy.
TIC Pretested® Gum Arabic FT Powder
Applications: Flavour encapsulation, confectionery - chewy soft candy, beverages, fruit juice, soup, sauce, dressings,meal replacers, bars and snacks, ice cream and frozen desserts, bakery and gluten-free bakery.
Ticaxan® Xanthan is a multi-purpose thickener and stabliser range made through fermentation. These allergen free, high-performance xanthan gums suit a wide range of applications from sauces, salad dressings, bakery, beverages to dry mixes.
- Stabilises and emulsifies salad dressings and sauces
- Improves cling of dressings and sauces
- Suspends particulates
- Controls moisture in refrigerated dough
- Pseudoplastic rheology
- Tolerant to extremes of heat and pH (2.0- 10.0)
- cold water soluble
Product range - Ticaxan® Xanthan EC 200, Ticaxan® Xanthan EC
TICA-Algin® Alginate is a range of gel-forming gums extracted from brown seaweed of the species Lessonia nigrescens and L. flavicans. It forms irreversible gels with calcium ions.
- Provides gelling for desserts and dairy products
- Prevents bakery icings from sticking to packaging
- Improves cooking yield and texture in meat systems
- Controls syneresis in cheese
- Enables thermal stability in bakery fillings
- Forms films for adhesives and coatings
- Suspends particulates
Product range includes - TICA-Algin® PGA LV Powder
The unique Ticaloid® systems leverage on a combination of gums to deliver the ideal synergies suitable for your dairy, beverage and confectionery applications. It acts mainly as a stabiliser and delivers clean flavour release and creaminess for your product.
- Protein stabilisation
- Suitable for pasturisation and UHT process
- Controls viscosity development and emulsion stability
- Imparts unique texture for confectionery
Product range includes - Ticaloid® Pro 192 AGD, Ticaloid® Ultrasmooth CL NGMO
A customised stabilising system recommended for both dairy and dairy-free yogurt applications. It is designed to provide a smooth mouthfeel, eliminate or minimize syneresis and reduce added non fat dry milk (NFDM) while maintaining quality in yogurt application. Suited to gelatin free applications.
- Tolerance to high shear and heat
- Enhances creamy mouthfeel and smooth texture
- Prevents syneresis
TIC® Guar Gum is an all-purpose thickener derived from the endosperm of the plant Cyamopsis tetragonoloba that grows in India and Pakistan.
As Guar gum comes from a seed, it is widely accepted as a label-friendly ingredient. Guar gum can be used alone or in combination with other gums to change the texture or stabilize a range of foods and beverages.
It is often used to prevent ice crystal formation in soft serve ice cream, thicken and add mouthfeel in sauces and dressings or prevent runny instant oatmeal.
- Thickens beverages, sauces, and gravies
- Binds water and controls ice crystal formation in ice cream
- Provides mouthfeel to dairy products
- Controls water and extends shelf life of baked goods
Product range includes - TIC Pretested® Guar Gum 8/22 Powder
Our TICorganic® certified organic line of gums and gum systems creates a world of possibilities to help you formulate organic products. From organic guar, organic gum arabic, organic locust bean gum, organic starch to organic stabilising system, we are able to support you in your organic food formulation.