Customized solutions

Go from whiteboard to reality faster

Your accelerator for product breakthroughs

Food and beverage manufacturers are constantly working on new formulations that better align with labeling goals and consumer demands. Whether you need to substitute ingredients, extend shelf life stability, or add protein and reduce sugar while maintaining taste and texture, solving these complex challenges while protecting product integrity requires deep formulation expertise and a catalog of proven ingredients and tailored solutions to meet your needs.  

Overcome formulation challenges — and uncover new possibilities

Ingredion’s Customized Solutions approach is designed to reduce complexities, co-create inspirational solutions with you and reduce time to market, based on your specific market challenges and performance requirements.

First, we understand the whole view of your challenge. Then we help speed time to market by drawing on our portfolio of optimized ingredient solutions as a starting point for your unique solution. Our team of experts collaborate and co-create with you, boldly innovating to help make your breakthroughs possible. 

Collaborative co-creation

We partner with you to understand your challenges and performance requirements — and then provide highly tailored recommendations, creating optimized ingredient solutions that work in synergy with your formulations, including:

  • Extending shelf life stability with stabilizer solutions
  • Improving mouthfeel with texturizer solutions
  • Delivering high-protein appeal and plant-based protein alternatives with protein-plus-stabilizer solutions
  • Reducing sugar while maintaining taste and texture with sweetener and functional build-back (FBB) solutions
  • Enhancing consumer appeal with label-friendly solutions

Ingredient-agnostic approach

We offer a proven range of turnkey, end-to-end solutions that can help you get started now. If the right ingredients aren’t available, we’ll tap into our supplier network to connect you with the best solution. Our continually expanding portfolio includes: 

  • Starch-based texturizers
  • Clean and simple ingredients
  • Plant-based proteins
  • Sugar reduction and specialty sweeteners
  • Hydrocolloids
  • Fruit and vegetable concentrates and purees

Reliable expertise

Staying fast and nimble means everything. Our global footprint, established supplier relationships and agile manufacturing capabilities reduce risks and provide a speed-to-market edge with our experts working as an extension of your team to maximize your capabilities, help troubleshoot and problem-solve for:

  • Ingredient solutions
  • Formulation
  • Quality
  • Manufacturing
  • Regulatory
  • Supply chain
  • Marketing
  • Sales

A comprehensive guide to formulating

Download our formulating made simple e-guide to learn about the tools you need to begin or improve your formulating process and deliver an ideal eating or drinking experience.

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Find the right hydrocolloid for your application

Looking for an overview of the various features and benefits our hydrocolloids bring to the table? Examine your options and find the right solution in our common gums chart.

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Let’s make your goals a reality

Agile collaboration. Deep formulation expertise. Broad portfolio of in-demand ingredients. Market research and consumer insights. Let’s make your goals a reality.

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