Affordability
Smart thinking for smart savings
Optimize recipe cost and save money in manufacturing
Breakthrough to unparalleled efficiency and cost savings
Imagine being able to increase your margins by creating better products more efficiently. Top challenges today include making production lines run faster and more cost efficiently. And when reducing recipe or formulation costs, you can't afford to compromise the product qualities that made your food, beverage, pet food or personal care product popular in the first place.
How can you improve efficiency — and profitability — while delivering the same great product performance and experience?
Discover how a broad portfolio of in-demand ingredients driven by consumer insights, innovative thinking, formulation expertise and process understanding can help you optimize your recipe costs and plant output — without sacrificing product quality.
- Increase consumer preference by baking in on-demand claims and a superior eating experience
- Substitute more expensive ingredients with affordable options that perform
- Increase line speeds and decrease ingredient mix or hydration time
- Reduce energy and water usage
- Minimize product or ingredient waste
- Improve yield
- Speed drying time
- Control the timing of thickening
- Preserve or maintain texture, taste and other sensory and functional characteristics … and more
Explore cost-savings
Improved batter and breading adhesion
Learn how to keep the crispiness consumers crave, while reducing product waste.
Cream and fat reduction
Learn how to cut cream, without cutting creaminess.
Tomato solid replacement
Discover the secret to saucy goodness, using less tomato solids.
Here are just a few of the ways we’re helping customers reduce recipe costs today
Our solutions in imitation cheese, for example, go beyond recipe savings to reduce gelling time and product waste. And in papermaking, our nature-based additives allow for greater drainage, fiber retention and finished product strength. We’re in it with you to help you save across your operations.
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Imitation cheese
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Get better gelling, melting and stretching – for less. Replace to 35% of costly casein while preserving product sensory and functional qualities
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Dairy, yogurt
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N-DULGE® C1 modified starch and PRECISA® Cream texture system
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Build back texture when replacing dairy fats and solids in creamy, smooth dairy-based products
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Dressings, dips and sauces
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N-CREAMER® 2000 modified food starch
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Reduce egg products in savory applications to extend recipe savings
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Hot dogs, emulsified meat
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PENBIND® 1015 modified potato starch
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Improve yield and design just-right firmness while maintaining juiciness
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Dressings, low- fat and -calorie foods
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ULTRA-TEX® 1311 modified potato starch
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Deliver premium, creamy textures with excellent stability without impacting taste
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Corrugating adhesive additive
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CORAGUM® TCE Thermal conductivity enhancer
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Improve adhesive drying speed to maximize production speed, reduce waste and improve board properties
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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.
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Balancing product priorities today can have a long-term impact on your brand positioning
Consumers are driving demand for healthier and more sustainable products. At the same time, food and beverage manufacturers are facing persistent supply challenges, regulatory requirements and record-level inflation.