Ulrick & Short Fat Replacer Gets Green Light in Desserts

07 Jul 2017 --- As the desserts sector continues its uninterrupted year-on-year growth, according to Innova Market Insights data, Ulrick & Short’s latest addition to its Delyte range is set to aid dessert manufacturers in the fight against fat – no longer do they have to choose between health and indulgence.

Delyte 9 is particularly effective for dairy based sweet goods such as custards and creams. What distinguishes Delyte 9 from other fat replacers is that along with decreasing fat content, it also increases indulgence, giving products a luxury feel. Moreover, Delyte 9 is shear and heat stable, making it suitable for all factory processes - it is also entirely clean label, non-GM and allergen free.

The tapioca-based product boasts the ability to reduce all fat types and milk solids by up to 50 percent, allowing manufacturers to make the front of pack fat reduction claims and making the traffic light declaration easier on the eye. Moreover, as Delyte 9 acts as a replacement for dairy, it promises to militate against recent increases and fluctuations of butter and cream pricing.

Ulrick & Short’s R&D manager, Danielle Schroeter, added: “Delyte 9 is truly a catch-all product – improving texture, simplifying declarations, and has been scientifically proven to enhance luxury mouthfeel with tribology testing. Having already achieved significant fat reductions in sweet applications such as custard with little to no effect on texture or flavor, we’ve found that Delyte 9 is very versatile and we have achieved similarly good results in frostings, fillings and other sweet baked goods.”

“In 2015, Brits sat down over 1.5 billion times to eat sweet baked goods or desserts, and this is only growing every year. With the simultaneous rise in demand for lower fat and sugar, manufacturers need a way of reconciling this, and Delyte 9 is the answer. The reduction is such that the all-important traffic light is more favorable, thus making this the ideal product to meet nutritional targets and also for all-round label simplification.”

A company spokesperson told FoodIngredientsFirst: “Delyte 9 differs in that it can remove up to 50 percent of fats with having minimal effect on product integrity or indulgence. Moreover, it is of course clean label, non-GM, allergen free and suitable for vegans, allowing label simplification (declared tapioca starch).”

“Indulgency without the guilt is becoming ever more important in this increasingly health-conscious culture, the growth of trends like flexitarianism and veganism is a testament to this. Also as we have seen with the sugar tax, governments are now taking an active role in making diets healthier and are coming down hard on high fat and high sugar products.”

by Elizabeth Green