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Welcome To The Pilot Issue
of "Ingredient News"
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Soups and dressings:
Grande Bravo® improves texture and increases the health benefits of a variety of foods. In soups, dressings, sauces, dips and spreads, for instance, Grande Bravo improves the creaminess and mouthfeel, and allows manufacturers to create healthier versions of these types of products by replacing some of the higher-fat ingredients. Product flavor is maintained or even enhanced.
Controlling The Cost of CREAM
The challenge for manufacturers is controlling ingredient costs as dairy product prices fluctuate. Grande Bravo is a stable priced whey protein concentrate that can be used in sauces and soups to replace all or part of the cream while maintaining creamy texture, full mouthfeel and clean dairy flavor. Other benefits include increased stability and reduction in fat.
Why Whey?
To Enhance Food Texture
How
do manufacturers create a rich, creamy dip while keeping dairy
ingredient costs down? Grande Bravo functional whey proteins bind
water, allowing replacement of other dairy solids while maintaining
mouthfeel. Grande Bravo will do the same for a wide variety of similar
products, like cheese sauces and spreads.
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Companies Focus On Quality, Added Value In 2009
As the world settles into the new year with high hopes of a better 2009, R&D is top of mind with food manufacturers. Why? Because manufacturers know they need to improve quality and flavor to answer consumer demands for more value for their dollar. This year, activity will focus on making current products as good as they can be.
Many leading companies have learned that current and new product formulations can be improved using functional whey proteins with unique water binding and texture enhancement properties. The line of Grande Bravo functional whey proteins have proven capabilities to provide enhanced mouthfeel and texture in many products including cheese and cream sauces, meat, bakery and dairy applications. Grande Custom Ingredients Group offers safe and natural ingredients that help food formulators reduce fat, improve quality, and reduce cost to produce finished products with exceptional flavor, texture and nutrition.
Health Important To Consumers
In Uncertain Times
Taking control of health and nutrition will always be an ongoing consumer trend and this year is no different, despite economic uncertainty - and maybe because of it. Healthy cereals and meal replacement bars will continue to play important roles in this trend, and Grande WPCrisp® whey protein crisps can make them even better.
Grande WPCrisp whey protein crisps can be customized with protein levels from 25-70% and by weight, these crunchy whey protein crisps offer far more nutrition versus other crisps. Grande Custom Ingredients food scientists can even customize the color, flavor and size/shape of the crisps to suit the manufacturer's unique product needs.
In addition to giving the product increased health benefits by increasing protein levels, Grande WPCrisp can improve the flavor of bars or cereal by providing a clean dairy flavor. There is no masking required and the flavor blends well from sweet to savory. Nutrition, protein and flavor can be improved by replacing rice crisps to increase protein content or replacing soy crisps for improved flavor.
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Grande Bravo Adds
Unique Functionality
Grande Bravo offers food manufacturers a broad spectrum of flavor, viscosity and gelation properties that are functional in cold- or heat-activated systems. This line of functional whey proteins is able to:
• bind water
• decrease syneresis
• improve texture
• extend shelf life
• increase yield
• enhance freeze/thaw stability
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