IFT First 2024 live: Tate & Lyle targets creamy textures and fiber in snacks and beverages with vegan concepts
16 Jul 2024 | Tate & Lyle
Tate & Lyle’s senior research chef, Christine Kerekes, talks to us from IFT about the company’s chickpea flour ingredient, which enhances the binding capability in snacks like falafel and a vegan emulsifying system for creamy textures. She also highlights the company’s dragon fruit-based prebiotic beverage, which has fiber for gut health benefits and a stevia sweetener for high-quality sweetness at low costs.
Food and Greens first reporting from IFT 1st 2024 in Chicago.
We're here at the Tate and Lyle booth with Christine Kerriers, who's a senior researcher.
So Christine, what are you showcasing today?
So here at our booth today we have 4 amazing prototypes that we're showcasing, capitalizing on different solutions, different, consumer trends, and most of all having really delicious products.
So the first one that we have here.
Today is a veggie falafel bite, so it has our tea chickpea flour in there for great binding capability, and we're serving it with a vegan harissa aioli.
So we have a vegan emulsifying system with two different starches to kind of build that emulsification and have a really nice creamy texture.
So the smoky harissa pairs very with the chickpea falafel.
OK, and what sorts of consumer trends are you trying to tap into with these solutions?
So each of our prototypes is capitalizing on a different consumer trend and also a solution that we can provide to our customers.
This one is for convenience and snacking.
So these are air fried for service.
So we're seeing in the industry that there's a need for convenience, frozen food while bringing that restaurant quality.
Experience to the home.
So that's kind of what we're showcasing here.
What sort of products do you have here today on display?
The other one, so we have a dragon fruit kiwi prebiotic beverage.
So this is a no sugar added beverage.
We have two tones, so we have a kiwi shrub at the bottom.
It's made with apple cider vinegar, as as our Promator soluble fiber.
So we do have that excellent source of fiber with a positive gut health impact.
Can you tell us more about the main benefits for end consumers of these solutions?
Absolutely.
So I think as the beverage industry is growing, we're continuing to find new ways to kind of excite beverage consumers.
And so being able to use our fiber as almost an invisible ingredient in our applications, we can make that excellent source of fiber claim without actually changing the drinking experience whatsoever.
And looking forward, what What exciting R&D innovation can we expect going forwards from your company?
Absolutely.
So we have a lot of things in store that we're excited about.
We're consistently trying to push the innovation envelope with new sweetener products.
We have Optimizer 8.1 is a stevia that we have just recently launched, which is very exciting for our beverage customers.
It's a high quality sweetness at a lower price point.
That's brilliant.
Thanks for your time and enjoy the show.
Thank you so much.
