Z Trim Cuts the Cost of Your Raw Materials

Z Trim is able to provide a stable price point in a market where commodities fluctuate radically. It enables formulators to replace more costly ingredients such as soybean oil or dairy solids.

5/25/2011 --- It's a straight-line relationship -- when prices rise at the pump, every industry sector is affected, and that translates into higher priced packaged goods for the consumer. Commodity ingredient pricing is anyone's best guess. What if there was a way to use a highly functional ingredient that could help trim costs across a wide spectrum of applications? Give your company the economic edge while realizing multiple functional benefits from one simple, natural ingredient -- Z Trim.

In an industry when there is always a hidden flaw in the latest miracle ingredient, Z Trim is a dependable workhorse that delivers on its promises. Utilizing a proprietary process, Z Trim is created from either oat hull or corn bran to create powdered cellulose. Z Trim is unique among the category of cellulose ingredients due to its short-chain polymeric structure. This gives Z Trim a very smooth mouthfeel, easy dispersability and flavor neutrality.

Z Trim is able to provide a stable price point in a market where commodities fluctuate radically. It enables formulators to replace more costly ingredients such as soybean oil or dairy solids. In one example, Z Trim blended with skim milk replaced 30% of the cream cheese, a costly dairy commodity, in a cheesecake formulation, while maintaining a smooth, creamy mouthfeel and texture. In addition to the economic benefit, Z Trim improves the nutrition profile as well, in this instance, cutting out 25% of the fat content.

"It is remarkable to find so many functional properties in a single ingredient," says Daniel Dugan, vice president of sales, marketing and applications for Z Trim. Typical usage levels of Z Trim range from 1/2% to 2%. Attendees at the Institute of Food Technology Annual Meeting and Expo can sample the cheesecake or other cost-cutting applications at booth #7747 in the Health and Wellness pavilion, June 11-14, New Orleans, Louisiana.