Texturants

More than 250 speciality starches

Our extensive portfolio of 250+ speciality starches helps food and beverage producers to deliver the texture, taste and cleaner labels that consumers are seeking out.

Our range includes corn-based ingredients and solutions that can be used in many applications ranging from basic thickening agents to distinctive functionalities designed for specific product categories, including beverages, dairy, soups, sauces and dressings.

Our growing range of tapioca-based ingredients and solutions provides highly appealing formulation benefits such as a translucent colour, clean taste, and a soft gel-like texture that is especially beneficial in certain applications, such as dairy, soups, sauces and dressings. Tapioca starch is the fastest growing starch used globally in new product formulation in recent years, particularly in Asia Pacific where it is well-used in bakery, snacks and noodles.

We understand your challenges:
  • We help you produce healthy, tasty products.

  • We offer low-cost, high-quality texturant solutions for your product range.

  • We give your portfolio the added benefit of ‘clean labelling’

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Thickeners are used to increase the viscosity of foods in the liquid state. Thickeners are widely used in dairy applications, puddings, dessert fillings, soups, sauces, dressings, and bakery mixes.

Our thickener portfolio comprised of corn, tapioca and potato starches make foods like sauces, yoghurts and bakery fillings creamy, thick and smooth as a result of swelling of the starch particles (or granules).

Tate & Lyle's thickening starches:

 

AGW™ Starch

BINASOL® Starch

BRIOGEL® gelling starches

CLARIA® Functional Clean Label Starch

CONSISTA® Starch

DRESS’N® Starch

FREEZIST® Starch

FRUITFIL® Starch

HI-JEL® Starch

KOLGUARD®  Starch

MAXI-GEL® Starch

MERIGEL® Starch

MIRA-SPERSE® Starch

MIRA-THIK® Starch

MIRA-CLEER® Starch

NU-STAR® Starch

PERMA-FLO® Starch

PULPIZ® Starch

RESISTAMYL® Starch

REZISTA® Starch

STARCO™ StarchREDI-SOL® Starch

TENDERFIL® Starch

TENDER-JEL® Starch

THIN’N’THIK® Starch

 

Gelling agents are used to transform a liquid food mixture into a solid food. They are widely used in gum sweets, jams, jellies, meat, custards, puddings, spreads, and yoghurt.  Gelling agents typically have low viscosity during preparation of the hot food mixture and are triggered to gel after cooling. 

Starch gelling agents are designed to have specific viscosity profiles during cooking; they typically contain linear starch chains (amylose) which self-associate to form a network after cooling.

Tate & Lyle's gelling starches:

MIRAGEL® Starch

THINGUM® Starch

CONFECTIONER'S Starch

MIRAQUIK® Starch 

MIRA-SET® Starch

STA-SLIM® Starch

CREAMIZ® Starch

Emulsifiers are used to prevent oil separation from the water phase in foods. They are also used in conjunction with other encapsulation ingredients to form solid powders with embedded micro-encapsulated oils.  Emulsifiers are used in beverage emulsions to stabilise flavour oils, and are used in food flavour systems for encapsulation of flavours and other volatile compounds into powders. 

Starch emulsifiers have hydrophobic ends which impart their emulsifying functionality; our range of emulsifying products offers varied viscosity levels.

Tate & Lyle's emulsifying starches:

STA-MIST® Starch

MIRA-MIST® Starch

MIRA-CAP® Starch

Film formers are used to coat food substrates, and subsequently thicken or solidify to form a glassy or rubbery film. The film forming process typically involves a drying or baking operation to remove moisture from the film and trigger the solidification process. Film forming materials are used in confectionery coatings, fried potato coatings, bakery coatings and snack coatings. Film forming materials are also used to improve dough formation for snacks and bakery items.  

Starch and dextrin film formers for sweets, potato coatings, bakery coatings, and snack coatings are designed to be low in viscosity and have stable viscosity during coating processes. During drying or baking operations, they undergo a transition from a liquid state to a glassy or rubbery state. These coatings provide gloss in confections, bakery, and snack coatings while providing crispiness in potato coatings.

Starch film formers used in dough are higher in viscosity and are designed to hydrate rapidly in low moisture recipes, forming continuous starch network in which other bulking materials such as flour and potato flakes are embedded. This starch phase typically reduces the dough firmness while maintaining elasticity which in turn allows greater expansion of the dough during baking and results in increased crispiness of the baked product.  
 

Tate & Lyle's film forming starches:

X-PAND’R® Starch

BATTER-UP® Starch

MERIGEL®  Starch

TAPIOCA DEXTRIN

Functional powders are applied topically to foods to deliver flavours, spices, and sweeteners; they are also used to modify surface appearance.  Functional powder coatings must have good flow properties when they are applied, adhere to the food substrate, achieve uniform coverage, and avoid excessive dusting. They are used widely on snack products, cereals, and confections.  

Starch powder surface properties are tailored to improve adhesion, enable non-dusting, free-flowing properties and to make them suitable as moulding materials for sweets.

Tate & Lyle's functional powders:

STARCO® Starch

MOULDING Starch

MERIZET™ Starch

BATTER-UP®  Starch

CONFECTIONER’S Starch

In many foods, texturants are used to increase the energy density of the food by increasing the carbohydrate solids. Bulking materials are critical to deliver textural attribute such a firmness and denseness in low moisture foods including cereals, bakery items, and snacks. Bulking materials are also used as carriers and diluents in spices and powder mixes and as powder coatings for meat prior to frying.  

Starch bulking materials are typically native starches, varying in moisture content and microbial specifications for use in a range of applications.

Tate & Lyle's bulking materials:

MERIZET® Starch

PURE FOOD POWDER Starch

WAXY Starch

TAPIOCA Dextrin

Tate & Lyle’s line of CLARIA® Functional Clean-Label Starches empowers manufacturers to meet increased consumer demand for cleaner labels enabling formulations with similar functionality to a modified food starch.

CLARIA® Essential

CLARIA® Plus

CLARIA® Elite

CLARIA® Instant

CLARIA EVERLAST®

CLARIA® Bliss

CLARIA® G

Our starches have a role in crumb structure development, suspending fruit solids in fillings or particulates in batters, controlling cookie spread during baking, and developing the right texture of cookies and biscuits. Texturants maintain moisture and extend shelf life of cakes, muffins and pastries and are essential in developing gluten free baked goods.

Our starches can be used to stabilise flavour and cloud emulsions for carbonated and non-carbonated beverages, contributing low viscosity at high solids levels, replacing or extending gum Arabic, and adding mouthfeel to low-fat dairy beverages. 

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Starches can help provide a wide variety of textures, ranging from soft fruit snacks to chewy sweets. Processing benefits include decreased stickiness in jelly type candy, reduced hot viscosity to facilitate cooking and ease of depositing, as well as quick setting to reduce curing time.

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Our starches provide creamy texture, uniform viscosity, and improved mouthfeel for low
or non-fat dairy products. They can also be used for gelatin replacement, emulsion stabilisation, water binding and structure development in a variety of dairy-based foods.

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Our starches can influence dough rheology as well as improve machinability, texture and appearance of finished products. Texturants allow different levels of dough expansion, developing crunchy to crispy textures in crackers, coated peanuts and extruded breakfast cereals.

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Starches develop viscosity and a set texture in your mayonnaise, dressings, and dips, extend pulp in your soups and play a critical role in maintaining the integrity of products through processing and stability during shelf life. Texturants also suspend particulates in sauces and enhance creaminess in low-fat versions of customer favourites.

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Texture University™

Texture University™ is a quarterly online curriculum delivered via webinar, focusing on the many challenges that food manufacturers can face when undertaking texture science

Introducing TEXTURE-VANTAGE® Expert Systems

Choosing the right texturiser can be a lengthy and difficult process as it requires time-consuming and costly research to understand how texturisers will be influenced by the other components of the formula. To address this challenge, Tate & Lyle is investing in a suite of cutting-edge texture design tools and is inviting food and beverage manufacturers to work with our scientists as they apply these tools to efficiently solve their formulation challenges.

These TEXTURE-VANTAGE® design tools aim at predicting product and ingredient performance and reducing development time. 

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TEXTURE-VANTAGE® is a registered trademark of Tate & Lyle in the UK and EU.

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Explore our entire texturants portfolio

We’ve spent decades building a vast portfolio of more than 250 speciality starches. Our starches can help you create cakes that don’t crumble, frozen meals that are freeze-thaw stable, and yoghurts with a rich, indulgent texture. We can also help you choose the right food starches to extend shelf life, improve tolerance during processing, or even avoid a cooking step.

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