Learn about how to Manage formulation costs, Reduce Waste, Optimise productivity and Elevate value.
Cost pressure is real. So is the risk of getting reformulation wrong.
When margins are squeezed, the instinct is to move fast. Swap an ingredient, reduce a cost, repeat. But a single change can ripple through taste, texture, mouthfeel and labelling in ways that erode the consumer preference you've spent years building. That's where the hidden cost of reformulation bites: extended R&D cycles, production trials, disrupted timelines.
We understand those pressures. Because we've helped solve them for customers across the industry. Our formulation, sensory and consumer insight teams work together to make sure every change is de-risked before it reaches your line.
The result? You protect what consumers love about your product. And you free up the margin to invest in what comes next.
Our strategic approach uses multiple levers in service of the same goal: making you thrive today so you can invest in innovation to grow tomorrow.
Affordability and quality aren't a trade-off. They're a formulation challenge – and one we know how to solve. We look at different levers of value creation: managing formulation costs, increasing productivity, reducing waste and elevating consumer-perceived value as one connected system, not separate problems. That means the optimisation we help you achieve today creates real space for innovation tomorrow.
Everything moves fast and stays scalable: from applications work and sensory testing through to nutrition and regulatory support. Our solutions fit the realities of modern manufacturing.
When you work with us, we identify the combination of levers that delivers the greatest impact for your business. The value you unlock is both immediate and built to last.
Managing formulation costs
Our portfolio lets us reduce the total cost of formulation, shield against expensive and volatile raw materials and reduce the number of ingredients used. Risk minimised, efficiency gained, value maximised.
Increasing productivity
Optimising formulation lets us maximise value at every stage of the process. We reduce energy use and processing time, while increasing production scale and operational efficiencies.
Reducing waste
By mastering shelf-stability, we slash the costly waste of expired inventory and supply chain spoilage. Smarter formulation improves runnability, cutting down on waste on the production line too.
Elevating perceived value
We increase the value consumers see in your products, through cleaner labels, boosted nutrition, or enhanced taste and texture. So you can command better margins while delivering the quality consumers expect.
Solution spotlight: The levers in action
Managing formulation costs
Manage your formulation cost by optimising recipes and navigating ingredient volatility while maintaining the eating experience consumers expect.
Egg Alternatives. We support recipes designed with up to 67% less eggs by providing solutions that help maintain aeration, structure and moisture management where needed, ensuring functional performance in a wide range of bakery applications.
Increasing productivity
Reduce energy consumption. In Bakery fillings, We reduce energy consumption in your fruit preparation process by utilising solutions to reduce hot viscosity for faster cooling and higher throughput.
Elevating perceived value
Reduce sugar, improve nutritional profiles. We can elevate value through better nutrition in sweet baked goods, using solutions that enable sugar reduction in fat-based fillings, allowing for low-calorie options that maintain sweetness, while further optimising costs.
Managing formulation costs
Sugar Alternatives. Sugar taxes drive the need to reduce sugar. Reduce or replace sugar completely with our sweetening solutions enabling up to 90% cost reduction in certain beverage systems.
Gum Acacia Alternatives. In flavoured fruit drinks, shield your formulation against price fluctuations of inputs such as gum acacia with solutions that provide stable emulsions and appealing visual appearance
Fruit Juice and Fruit Purée Alternatives. our ingredient solutions provide similar appearance to natural fruit pulp (e.g. in juices with suspended solids/pulp). They can support reductions of up to 40% of pulp with a similar mouthfeel and body.
Elevating perceived value
Offer health-conscious consumers a double benefit by reducing or eliminating sugar utilising our clean-label sweetening and texturising ingredients. Less sugar, Better labels. With great taste and mouthfeel.
Managing formulation costs
We help shield your formulation against fluctuation of ingredients such as costly gum acacia and gelatin.
Gelatin and Gum Acacia Alternatives. We shield against raw material volatility by removing, or partially reducing, gelatin and acacia gum with ingredient solutions that provide cost-efficiency, satisfying texture and equivalent performance.
Increasing productivity
In the manufacturing of gummies we optimise by using ingredient solutions to reduce drying/stoving time. In fruit preparations we offer solutions to speed cooling and increase throughput, cutting energy costs.
Reducing waste
Incorporating our ingredient alternatives to gelatin delivers superior heat stability and handling, ensuring gummies stay firm, separate, and easy to process. This minimises sticking and product loss, helping you cut waste, maintain consistency, and keep production running smoothly.
Managing formulation costs
- In yogurt, cream, and ice cream, tap into solutions that deliver fat-like mouthfeel, appearance, and performance similar to milk fat. Our ingredient solutions maintain creaminess in yogurt at lower fat levels and improve mouthfeel and shelf-life stability in dairy cream and ice cream even at reduced fat levels.
- In processed cheese, tap into solutions that provide mouthfeel, hardness, shredability, meltability, and stretch, plus achieving faster gelation, reduced aging time while providing approximately 10% cost savings.
Cocoa Alternatives. Shield against raw material volatility by reducing cocoa usage in ice cream, puddings, and chocolate milk while preserving colour, texture, and flavour through cocoa reduction technology (only available in the U.S.) that maintains sensory performance and consistent quality while mitigating the impact of cocoa price and supply fluctuations.
Reduce Waste
Enhance dairy drinks and yogurt quality throughout shelf life to reduce waste by preventing syneresis and maintaining visual and sensory appeal until the end with our ingredient solutions that support stability and consistency.
For ambient yogurt, some ingredients can extend shelf life while preserving texture and appearance.
Increasing productivity
In processed cheese our functional systems lead to faster gelation, reduced aging time, easier processing, cost savings (up to 10%), all while keeping functionality and mouthfeel intact.
Elevating perceived value
We can create cleaner label and healthier ice cream while keeping cost in check. With our clean-label ingredients we can reduce sugar by up to 25% and fat by up to 50% while providing a smoother, creamier mouthfeel, a improved meltdown resistance and a more stable mix with reduced phase separation. All while delivering a shorter, more natural ingredient list on a better-for-you product.
Managing formulation costs
Oil Alternatives. Reduce or replace oil in pourable dressings and mayonnaise using our ingredient solutions to maintain viscosity, mouthfeel, functionality, and stability.
Achieve formulation cost reductions of up to 30% while protecting against raw material volatility.
Egg Alternatives. Shield against supply volatility by replacing egg yolk emulsification in dressings and mayonnaise tapping into our ingredient solutions (including clean-label) to maintain stability, mouthfeel, and cleaner labels getting reductions of up to 100% and cost reductions of up to 25% Tap into our Tate & Lyle Sensation™ tool to ensure the ideal sensory profile in your mayonnaise formulation.
Tomato Paste Alternatives. Replace tomato paste solids in ketchup and barbecue sauce with our ingredient solutions to reduce dependence on volatile tomato supply chains, achieving up to 25% tomato paste reduction while maintaining desired texture, consistency, and flavour while optimising formulation cost.
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The information provided above is intended solely for your consideration and independent verification. You are responsible for determining whether and how to use this information. The applicability of ingredient substitutions, label claims, health claims and the regulatory and intellectual property status of our ingredients varies by jurisdiction. You should obtain your own advice regarding all legal and regulatory aspects of our ingredients and their usage in your own products to determine suitability for their particular purposes, claims, freedom to operate, labelling or specific applications in any particular jurisdiction. Tate & Lyle does not guarantee, and accepts no liability for, the accuracy or completeness of the information provided, nor the suitability of any products for your particular application.