The power of food is undeniable.
That’s why health-conscious consumers are so mindful of the nutritional choices they make, and why it’s essential to be providing the positive nutrition they want. The ingredients in our portfolio channel this power. We deliver tangible health benefits backed up by clinical research, from fortification with everyday essential nutrients, to supporting the gut microbiome and beyond.
Success is built on satisfaction.
Your formulation goals and consumers’ health goals both require the same thing to succeed; exceptional taste to match great benefits. By creating products that consumers enjoy you facilitate easier habit integration. So, we use our expertise to make sure the taste, texture and mouthfeel of your formulations are optimised for a delicious eating experience. Giving consumers positivity they can taste and feel as well as measure.
Formulating for health and wellness benefits involves many challenges. You need to navigate the clinical science of nutrition, a shifting regulatory landscape and the technical functionality of ingredients and their interactions. As a partner we guide you through all of it.
We make the science feel clear, through expert understanding, concise language and a wealth of evidence.
We understand the nuances of regulations and restrictions in different markets, and have unique insights into the way consumer perceptions of different ingredients vary across regions.
And we have the capabilities, experience and resources to formulate for added health benefits, while still delivering a functionally amazing, and delicious, product.
Common positive nutrition challenges we can help you overcome
Solution Spotlight
With expert support and an extensive ingredient portfolio spanning fibres, sweeteners, starches, hydrocolloids and more, we can find the right solution for any goal.
A great solution for adding proven health benefits, with easy to digest and well-tolerated prebiotic fibre (65g daily) that can enable fibre-forward formulations. It offers low glycaemic response, gut health benefits, and improved calcium absorption for bone health. It’s easy to formulate with, offering high solubility and a variety of formats with excellent stability in application.
A great soluble fibre to help consumers feel fuller for longer on less calories. It is a well-tolerated prebiotic fibre (90g daily) that supports satiety. It is easy to formulate with and can replace the functionality of a glucose syrup or sweetener solids. It can be easily used across for a wide range of categories, with great taste, texture and tolerance.
FOS (Fructo-oligosaccharides) is a soluble dietary fibre that’s recognised as being prebiotic. It’s found in many plants, is low in calories, provides a sweet taste and is easy to process. Its functionality and processing attributes include low heat and acid stability.
Our GOS (galacto-oligosaccharides) products are made from a chain of galactose sugars generally derived from lactose. Recognised as a prebiotic it can be applied in functional foods and fortified dairy products, including yoghurts.
Upcycled from citrus peels, GENU® Pectin is well tolerated, and it may support adult clinical nutrition by modulating inflammation, anxiety, and depression.1
Tastes and functions like sugar, but with over 90% fewer calories. DOLCIA PRIMA® Allulose replicates many of sugar’s functional benefits: it adds bulk and texture, depresses the freezing point, and browns when baking. Early studies also indicate the prebiotic potential of allulose.
Provides an exceptionally clean, sweet taste that is 200x the sweetness of sugar, with no bitter aftertaste. Highly stable, versatile, and applicable across multiple categories and formulations.
We offer a full range of stevia solutions – a plant-based sweetener that contributes zero calories, does not raise blood sugar and is 200 to 300 times sweeter than sugar.
Formulating for added health benefits isn’t contained to one category of food and beverage – and neither are our expertise. Discover the work we do across multiple sectors of the industry.
For health-conscious consumers low and no sugar formulations are an essential part of enjoyable hydration, or a way to indulge in favourites without the calorie implications. Our sweetening ingredients have many applications within this category, delivering enhanced flavour and sweetness with no bitter aftertaste.
Across the dairy category we utilise our specialist fibre portfolio and fortification expertise to enhance the nutritional value of yogurt products. We increase protein, reduce fat, and support gut health, with no compromise to performance. We also have expertise in formulating better-for-you ice creams.
Credibility of application for added health benefits is often important to consumers. Nutritional applications are where health ingredients shine. We see fibre content standing out as a differentiator in the high protein market. Health claims prompt trial, while taste and mouthfeel determine the sustainability of the health habit.
Snacks are a great application for added health benefits throughout the day. Fibre nudges. Sugar and calorie reduction. It is an application built on taste and mouthfeel, where reduced indulgences and added health benefits are easy to integrate each day, only if they don’t compromise on the sensory experience.
Gummies have become a go-to product in health and wellness: used to deliver added fibre and vitamins, or as a replacement for traditional supplements. With our expertise we are able to formulate for the delicious chewy texture they are known for, overcoming the challenges that products low in sugar but high in fortification normally create.
Formulate for success by giving consumers health benefits alongside delicious taste. Food and beverages that offer an enjoyable experience to match credible nutritional claims go beyond preference; they become positive habits. And that’s how you win at shelf every time.
Frequently Asked Questions
Positive nutrition means creating food and beverages that deliver meaningful health benefits while remaining delicious and satisfying. Consumers increasingly see food as a vehicle to wellness, but better-for-you products are still expected to provide excellent taste and texture. The formulation opportunity is to combine measurable benefits with an experience people want to repeat.
Health benefits alone do not create a lasting habit. Consumers are more likely to integrate a product into everyday life when its taste, texture and mouthfeel are enjoyable enough to repurchase. Tate & Lyle therefore optimises the sensory experience alongside nutrition, giving consumers benefits they can taste and feel as well as measure the health benefits of over time.
Tate & Lyle's portfolio can support everyday nutrient fortification, increased fibre and protein, digestive wellness, the gut microbiome and lower-glycaemic formulations. The company grounds benefit-led formulation in clinical research and ingredient science, while keeping taste, functionality and consumer acceptance central to the brief. Newer research in cognitive health, bone health and immune support also bolsters emerging consumer health goals from food.
Fortification can add everyday essential nutrients, with particular strength in fibre, and can increase protein or overall nutrient density without changing eating habits. This may help consumers work toward nutrition goals without adding further calories or reducing those previously held by sugar and carbohydrates. Tate & Lyle combines fibre formulation expertise, a proven understanding of digestive tolerance to support bold fortification and a portfolio backed by consumer preference insights and regulatory expertise.
Positive-nutrition projects can involve clinical evidence, changing regulations, formulating around efficacious dosages and stability over shelf life. Tate & Lyle helps make the science clear, understands market-specific regulations and restrictions, and brings consumer-perception insights from different regions. This supports formulations and confident communications that are appropriate to the intended market.
Tate & Lyle draws on a broad portfolio and a detailed understanding of ingredient functions and interactions to optimise mouthfeel. This is especially important when adding nutrition or reducing sugar, calories or fat changes the original sensory experience. The aim is to deliver health benefits without creating a product that feels compromised. Stability of heavily fortified products is also a key role for our mouthfeel portfolio.
Sweetening can make nutrition-forward products easier and more enjoyable to integrate into daily habits. Tate & Lyle's sweetening ingredients can deliver consumer-preferred sweet taste while supporting reductions in sugar, calories and glycaemic response. This reflects the principle that sustainable healthy habits are built on satisfaction rather than restriction.
Featured solutions include PROMITOR® Soluble Fibre, STA-LITE® Polydextrose, EUOLIGO® FOS, GOSYAN® GOS, GENU® Pectin, DOLCIA PRIMA® Allulose, PUREFRUIT® Monk Fruit Extract and Tate & Lyle Stevia. They offer different combinations of fibre, prebiotic, sweetening, mouthfeel and sugar-functionality benefits.
Tate & Lyle applies its positive-nutrition expertise across beverages, dairy, nutritional bars and shakes, snacks and other food categories. Examples include low- and no-sugar beverages, fibre- and protein-enhanced yoghurt, better-for-you ice cream, high-protein nutrition products and everyday snacks with added benefits.
Tate & Lyle brings together nutrition science, regulatory knowledge, consumer insights, application expertise and sensory capabilities. The team helps formulators navigate the full brief, from the intended benefit and label claim to ingredient functionality, taste, texture and regional consumer expectations, so the finished product performs as well as it nourishes.
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Prospective purchasers are advised to conduct their own tests, studies and review of the intellectual property and regulatory space to determine the fitness of Tate & Lyle products for their particular purposes, product claims or specific applications