New Emulsion Solution for Lower Cost in Use
29 Jul 2014 | Nexira
Nexira offers Superstab, an all-natural acacia gum specially designed to emulsify and stabilize all types of oil-in-water emulsions for RTD beverages. The 100% all natural acacia gum requires no labeling change. The fact that use level is reduced by 3 times means that the product is extremely cost effective in applications.
Rob Iris at the IFT in New Orleans, and I'm here with Olivia Huala from Nexera, and Nexira are highlighting Superstab, which is an emulsion solution for lower cost and use.
Olivia, can you explain a little about this ingredient, what the benefits are?
Yes, Superstep has been launched a few months ago, and it's an emulsifier for flavor emulsions.
It's based on gummea and The beauty of this product is the use level, which is much lower than the regular gourmet cacia.
It's a standard gourmet cacia.
The ratio, the percentage of use in the finished product is 20%, and with the Superstar we have been able to decrease the use level to 5 to 8%, which is a significant cost saving for the customer.
And there's a clean label benefit as.
A clean label, also this product has been developed by the Nexium R&D, and there is no chemical modification whatsoever.
It's still labeled as a gums, which is a natural product, and of course.
What type of products is it suitable for?
It's suitable for flavor emulsion, flavor emulsions, which are used in flavor concentrate for beverage.
Or soft drinks or other types of beverages.
OK, we've already seen some commercial applications of using this ingredients.
Yes, yes, we have we have seen some commercial launch with these products, some flavor houses that have started to use this product for some emotion for flavors.
It's of course it's a long process because you have to go through stability tests and.
Trials which obviously by definition take a long time, but so far the results are quite promising for this product.
What about other developments around Acacia gum?
Are there other things that you're working on at the moment?
We're always working on how to process and how to select the better gum acacia in order to remain clean level and Our goal is always to improve the emulsifying properties of the gum acacia, and on the other hand, on the nutritional side, we are still working on the development of a new type of fiber gum.
Fiber gum, as you know, is our main range of fiber, soluble fiber, and we are always working to improve our range of fiber gum, increase the amount of fiber, increase the solubility, or demonstrate that the tolerance of fiber is excellent.
Olivia, thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
