NOVATION® functional native starches
Process tolerant, clean label texturizers
Formulate food and beverages with ingredients consumers accept, expect and prefer
People want to know exactly what’s going into their food and beverages. That’s why you need to develop products containing the clean label ingredients consumers recognize and trust. Formulating additive-free, “natural” food with consumer-preferred ingredients to drive appeal inside and out can bring commercial and technical challenges.
How can you meet consumer demand for natural* clean label food and beverages without compromising flavour, colour, texture and performance?
Look to Ingredion for a full continuum of clean label functional starches to replace ingredients perceived as undesirable in existing products and develop new products while meeting your complex functionality and manufacturing needs. With NOVATION® functional native starches, you get the texture and process tolerance offered by a modified starch — and the simpler ingredient listing consumers favour.
Our portfolio of more than 35 clean label NOVATION® functional native starches made from waxy maize, waxy rice, tapioca and potato enables you to:
- Dairy, yoghurts, desserts
- Soups, sauces and dressings
- Frozen/Refrigerated ready meals and sides
- Fillings, fruit and vegetable preps
- Alternative meat and dairy products
- Baby food and meals
- Bakery and snacks
- Pet food
- Beverages
Explore NOVATION® functional starches
Create indulgent textures, improve nutrition and drive revenue
Enhance the texture and mouthfeel in foods to increase indulgence, improve quality, drive revenue, provide superior stability and have a high process tolerance with NOVATION® Indulge co-texturizing starches.
High-performance texturizers for your most delicate applications
Bring high-performance to light-colored applications and meet “natural” product demand without compromising flavor, color and texture with NOVATION® Lumina functional native starches.
Formulate consumer-preferred, clean label products
- Baby food and baked goods
- Soups, sauces and dressings
- Dairy, fillings and fruit preparations
- Alternative meat and dairy products
- Frozen ready meals and sides
- Beverages
- Pet food
Documented non-GMO
Get the assurance of non-GMO quality worldwide. We’ve built a trusted supply chain for ingredients that are verified by the U.S.-based Non-GMO Project. And that’s not all. Our decade-old TRUETRACE® program also tracks NOVATION® ingredients every step of the way.
Clean label expertise and industry-changing ingredient solutions
As the pioneer in clean label ingredients, we make it our business to understand what consumers want from their food and beverages so we can help you overcome challenges and prioritize your product renovation and new product development efforts.
Featured ingredients
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Provides the highest process tolerance for light-colored applications with delicate flavors
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Corn starch
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Provides process tolerance
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Cook up corn starch
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Provides excellent frozen or refrigerated shelf life stability, with high resistance to heat, moderate shear and low pH. Smaller particle size
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Cook up waxy rice starch
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Provides excellent frozen or refrigerated shelf life stability with moderate resistance to heat, low resistance to shear and low pH. Smaller particle size
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Cook up waxy rice starch
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