Avebe Finds Margarine Application for Innovative Starch

Etenia enables the production and processing of healthy bakery margarines with reduced fat and/or lower saturated fatty acids (SAFA). The baking performance of the resulting products is excellent.

6 Apr 2010 --- Avebe has found potential for its Etenia ingredient in bakery margarines. Etenia from Avebe is promoted as the world´s first thermo-reversible stabilizing and texturising starch. It enables the production and processing of healthy bakery margarines with reduced fat and/or lower saturated fatty acids (SAFA). The baking performance of the resulting products is excellent.

The company notes that consumers of baked goods are becoming more aware of the negative aspects of fat and SAFA. Labeling of fat and SAFA content of fat is now obligatory. In some countries a “fat tax” is being discussed in politics. As a result, retailers and bakeries are looking for solutions to provide healthier baked goods.

With Etenia, manufacturers of butter or margarine are now able to produce healthier bakery margarines with lower fat and up to 20-50% reduced SAFA content. The margarines are suitable for processing on existing machinery and the resulting baked goods meet the demands of palatability and taste.

This new approach is a true innovation with the following benefits:
• Healthier baked goods: lower fat and/or lower SAFA content.
• Firs existing processing: rework is possible, no pre-crystallisation interruptions
• Low cost-in-use
• Excellent taste and texture: stability, plasticity
• Clean label: no E-number, non-GMO, kosher and halal.

ETENIA is a new potato based product range from AVEBE that helps food manufacturers meet consumer demand for healthy, wellness oriented, natural and safe foods. ETENIA gives a creamy rich texture to low fat products such as yoghurt. Its unique gelling properties make it a good alternative for gelatin in e.g. wine gums. It also offers an absolutely new possibility for manufacturers to have an E-number free, natural texturiser with no taste.

ETENIA has been developed together with DSM Food Specialties. AVEBE and DSM Food Specialties entered into a strategic partnership in 2007. The combination of DSM’s enzyme expertise and AVEBE’s starch knowledge creates new opportunities for the development of innovative creaminess-enhancing products for the food industry, with ETENIA as the first result of this partnership.