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By combining our in-house research and development expertise with efficient, large-scale manufacturing we turn agricultural products, primarily corn and sugar, into valuable ingredients for customers. These ingredients add taste, texture, nutrition and increased functionality to many familiar products that millions of people around the world use or consume every day. In addition to high quality ingredients, we also provide value to our customers through our in-house technical support, applications expertise, and market intelligence.
Our ingredient services:
Consumer research
We have a rolling programme of consumer research which provides us and our customers with insights into dietary habits, preferences and aspirations. We use these insights to direct our internal research and development, to help market our ingredients and services, and to help our customers anticipate and respond to changing customer preferences.
Health and Wellness
With health and wellness driving innovation in today's food industry, our ingredients and services enable food producers to create products that meet specific nutritional targets and taste as good as regular brands. We work with customers to deliver consumer benefits in areas including obesity and weight management; digestive health and immunity and children's health. Our ENRICH™ service, launched in 2007, is one example; and the recent launch of PROMITOR™ Dietary Fibres, which enable the addition of fibre without compromising flavour or texture, is another.
Sweeteners
Tate & Lyle sells a wide range of sweeteners. With expertise in sugars, syrups and SPLENDA® Sucralose, Tate & Lyle provides customers with sensory research and technical guidance on sweeteners and sweetener blends.
Stabiliser & texturant systems
Our functional ingredient businesses, G. C. HAHN & Co., Tate & Lyle Custom Ingredients and Cesalpinia Foods, specialise in sourcing ingredients for stabiliser and texturant systems. Their leading specialists provide or complement R&D expertise for many customers and by building close working relationships often become trusted long term development partners.
Our ingredients include:
Food Starches
Food starches are used by food and beverage producers to add texture and body, and to enhance mouthfeel. They also bind ingredients together, provide stability and help food to retain moisture.
Industrial Starches
In the paper industry, our starches are used to increase dry paper strength and improve surface conditions. Our speciality starches are used to bond the different layers of paper in the manufacture of corrugated board. Starches are also used in adhesive and building product applications, and the textile industry to increase weaving efficiencies.
Corn Sweeteners
Corn-derived sweeteners like high fructose corn syrup, glucose syrup, fructose and dextrose are used in soft drinks and foods to provide sweetness, mouthfeel and energy. Some are also used as a feedstock in fermentation processes to create alcohols (including bio-ethanol).
Sugars and Syrups
Cane sugar, syrups and treacles are used to provide natural sweetness, texture, colour and flavour in many different types of food and drink. Tate & Lyle is the largest cane sugar refiner in the EU, producing over 1.3m tonnes per annum. Our retail sugars and syrups are leading brands in the UK (Tate & Lyle sugar and Lyle's Golden Syrup) and in Portugal (Sidul and Sores). Tate & Lyle Granulated White Cane Sugar, sourced from Belize, is now Fairtrade. All our UK retail cane sugar products should be Fairtrade certified by the end of 2009.
SPLENDA® Sucralose
SPLENDA® Sucralose is a no-calorie, high-intensity sweetener that's made from sugar, tastes like sugar but it's not sugar. Because of its great sugar-like taste and unique ability to hold sweetness through a variety of high-temperature processing techniques and over long periods on the shelf, SPLENDA® Sucralose has become a sweetener of choice for the world's leading food and beverage manufacturers, and is used in over 4,000 products worldwide.
Molasses
Molasses is a versatile co-product of sugar production. It is a nutritious animal feed and can be used as a raw material for fermentation. Molasses is also used in a number of industrial applications such as road de-icer coatings, dyes and tyre manufacture.
PROMITOR™ Dietary Fibres
PROMITOR™ is a range of dietary fibres that deliver the health benefits consumers' desire, with the great taste they want. PROMITOR™ Dietary Fibre is easy to integrate into existing formulations, without compromising flavour or texture. Its versatility can enable development of new health-plus versions of products in a wide range of food categories.
Acidulants
Acidulants such as citric acid, potassium citrate and sodium citrate are produced from fermenting carbohydrate sources such as sugar or dextrose. Citric acid is used to enhance flavour and preserve a wide range of foods, beverages and pharmaceuticals. It is also widely used as a natural cleaning agent in detergents.
Biogums
Biogums such as xanthan gum, locust bean gum and guar gum are used by the food industry to provide texture and viscosity, replace fat and act as stabilisers. Our industrial-grade xanthan gum, STAZAN X®, is used in the oil-well drilling industry as a lubricant and coolant.
Bio-Ethanol
We use corn to make bio-ethanol as a renewable, alternative to petroleum, which helps to reduce dependency on fossil fuels.
Bio-PDO™
Bio-PDO™ is a versatile, high-performance ingredient that can be used to replace glycols made from petrochemicals in cosmetics, liquid detergents and industrial applications such as anti-freeze. It can also be used to produce speciality polymers such as DuPont™ Sorona® polymer which is used in textile applications like clothing and upholstery.
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