How NUTRAVA® Citrus Fiber Adds Value to Ice Cream & Plant-Based Ice Cream Alternatives
Consumers today are looking for products that are “good for you” and “good for the planet” too. This includes their favorite indulgent treats like ice cream, where the megatrends of health and sustainability have merged to become “healthy indulgences.” Knowing that consumers may perceive a product with more ingredients listed on the label as less healthy, CP Kelco is happy to introduce a new solution for ice cream manufacturers: NUTRAVA® Citrus Fiber, which may help you remove up to four commonly used stabilizers on your label. It can help you clean up your label without giving up the creamy, indulgent mouthfeel that consumers crave.
NUTRAVA® Citrus Fiber can help you develop new hardpack, bar and soft-serve ice cream products by providing an upcycled, recognizable, single ingredient alternative to industry standard blends while maintaining quality, potentially improving melt resistance, increasing firmness and improving costs without impacting the manufacturing process.
An Upcycled Ingredient
As we all know, food waste is big problem in the industry. Upcycling helps to prevent food waste by using discarded food to create another high-quality product. Upcycled from citrus peels, a byproduct of the juice industry, NUTRAVA® Citrus Fiber is the first Upcycled Certified® citrus fiber on the market.* In ice cream, it also helps to improve melt resistance to combat the fluctuating temperatures of shipping and transit, which can lead to food waste. Read more about our circularity store here.
5 Areas Where NUTRAVA® Citrus Fiber
Adds Value to Your Formulation
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- Stability of pricing
- Secure and ample supply
- Optimal formulation cost
- Easy implementation in process
- Processable viscosity
- Same overrun with no change in formulation cost
- No equipment change
- Robustness with temperature fluctuations without impact on meltdown rate, firmness, mouthfeel
- Potential improvement in
e-commerce shipments - Ideal for foodservice and consumer home use
- Sustainable ingredient – upcycled from citrus peels, a byproduct of the juice industry
- “Good for You” – supports dietary fiber intake
- Clean label-friendly with removal of some additives
- Suitable for plant-based formulations
- Slower melting rate
- Smooth and creamy sensory profile
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* Upcycled Certified® is a registered trademark of Where Food Comes From, Inc.