ETENIA Wins Food Valley Award

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.

10 Oct 2009 --- DSM Food Specialties is delighted to announce that AVEBE received the prestigious Food Valley Award for the ETENIA line of starches at this year’s conference.

A new potato-based product range, ETENIA helps food manufacturers meet growing 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 wine gums. It also offers manufacturers the first opportunity to use an e-number free, natural texturiser with no taste. ETENIA can also be used in dairy and bakery products such as ice cream, spreads and bakery margarines.

ETENIA has been developed by AVEBE together with DSM Food Specialties. DSM Food Specialties and AVEBE 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 the first result of this partnership.

“The technical functionalities of the ETENIA products allows a true connection of market need and technical attributes to deliver improved product performance for consumer-led innovative developments”, said Dr. Piet Buwalda, AVEBE’s Manager Innovation Food. “ETENIA is the result of many years of work which has yielded not only this exciting new product line, but also a portfolio of recipes and formulation expertise. The experts at AVEBE have the knowledge to produce solutions at the bench, in the pilot plant and at the factory of our customers.”

“We congratulate AVEBE on this recent award win”, said Rob Beudeker, Business Unit Director Ingredients Development, DSM Food Specialties. “It is positive and credible recognition of ETENIA as an innovative product range on the market.  We look forward not only to the continued success of ETENIA, but also further exciting developments resulting from our partnership with AVEBE.”

Food Valley annually rewards the most distinguishing innovative and sustainable innovation within Dutch food industry. The objective of the Food Valley Award is to enhance innovation in the food and food-related sector by rewarding promising new initiatives that also advance the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in an exemplary manner.