National Starch Highlights Flavor Potential of Beverage Pulp Replacement Ingredient

Highly functional as well as versatile, Precisa Pulp 02 offers manufacturers the opportunity to create cost-optimised beverages that appeal to consumer demand for exotic juice drinks.

7/4/2011 --- Global ingredients supplier, National Starch Food Innovation, is highlighting how its innovative starch-based solution Precisa Pulp 02 can be used in a variety of fruit-juice bases, including peach, apricot guava, pear, and mango. Highly functional as well as versatile, Precisa Pulp 02 offers manufacturers the opportunity to create cost-optimised beverages that appeal to consumer demand for exotic juice drinks.

While delivering the freshly-squeezed texture popular with consumers, fruit pulp is highly expensive and vulnerable to price fluctuations. A low cost-in-use texturiser, Precisa Pulp 02 can replace this costly ingredient, whilst conferring all-important pulpiness and superb stability for a longer shelf-life.

Mona Rademacher, European marketing, beverages, National Starch Food Innovation, comments: “Exotic fruit juice flavours, such as guava, apricot and mango are very popular amongst consumers in the Middle East and pear flavoured beverages hit the mark with European consumers as they have a local, home-grown appeal. We are delighted to be able to offer manufacturers the chance to meet these demands, helping them create beverages cost-effective beverages with the consistent quality, texture and flavour desired by consumers.”

This latest development highlights National Starch Food Innovation’s commitment to creating effective and appealing beverage solutions. The company offers a wide range of emulsifiers, encapsulants and texturisers to suit a wide range of applications, including fruit juice drinks, carbonates, smoothies and hot drink mixes.