Clean label is here to stay! The clean label mega trend is quickly becoming an important part of food formulations. The benefits of adding fiber to consumer products are numerous and increasingly gaining momentum. Using a recognizable, clean label-friendly ingredient while reducing the total number of ingredients in your product at the same time? Well, that’s a win-win with NUTRAVA® Citrus Fiber.

NUTRAVA® Citrus Fiber is a next-generation fiber ingredient made from sustainably sourced citrus peels, an abundant byproduct of the juice industry. It supports dietary fiber intake and can help meet your clean label goals of a simpler, shorter ingredient list, or developing reduced-sugar or reduced-fat products. It also supports stability, suspension, body, and texture in a variety of applications including condiments, dressings, soups, baked goods, fruit flavored drinks, dairy yogurts & plant-based yogurt alternatives, and meat & meat alternative products.

Typical content of dietary fiber is at a minimum of 80% with an approximately balanced amount of soluble and insoluble fiber. This novel composition makes it suitable for a broad range of food and beverage products.

NUTRAVA® Citrus Fiber highlights:

  • Supports dietary fiber intake
  • Supports reduced-fat and reduced-sugar formulations
  • Supports fruit pulp reduction
  • Supports gluten-free formulations
  • Supports water-binding, texturizing and stabilization
  • Suitable for vegan formulations
  • Compatible with standard manufacturing processes

Carrageenan is extracted from certain species of red algae seaweeds and has been used in a variety of food applications for a very long time.

Working with us, you can find the right carrageenan product to create textures ranging from free-flowing liquids to solid gels. In addition to offering standard types, we work in conjunction with customers to develop new products and formulations for specific applications.

• Kappa carrageenan forms firm, brittle gels.
• Iota carrageenan forms elastic gels and thixotropic fluids.
• Lambda carrageenan forms viscous, non-gelling solutions.

Carrageenan on Purpose

Since 1990, CP Kelco has been working with communities in Zanzibar to grow the seaweed that is used to produce carrageenan utilizing sustainable farming methods. This collaboration includes teaching for skills of creating, cultivating and harvesting seaweed beds. This has especially provided women who previously had limited or no opportunity for employment with the ability to support their families. Learn more…