Confectionery products with appealing textures

From elastic and gelatine-like to soft and chewy and everywhere in between, National Starch Food Innovation can help you develop the right texture for your confectionery products.

     
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Trying to re-energise or develop new sugar confectionery products to gain market share? The possibilities are unlimited. Specialty starches offer unique texture solutions for all product needs.

The cost and supply of ingredients are of major concern for confectionery manufacturers. National Starch Food Innovation can help you create gelatine- and gum arabic-free formulations with our range of specialty starches.

 

Products & Services

Technologists at National Starch Food Innovation are available to assist with all your formulation challenges. We have a broad portfolio of confectionery solutions including:
 
• Wide range of texturising ingredients that can support you to create textures from
  soft, jelly-like to firm 
• Replacement of gum arabic in panning applications with the CRYSTAL-TEX range
  of dextrins that form clear, solution-stable films 
• One-piece specialty starches that reduce stoving times in starch moulded
  confectionery 
• Starches that provide novel textures, such as TEXTRA and PURITY GUM™ 539 E,
  in chewy candies 
• N-DULGE™ range of co-texturisers for textural differentiation of high solids fillings

 

Applications

• Jelly candy and confectionery
• Caramels
• Chocolate compounds
• Marshmallows and aerated confectionery
• Pan-coated products
• Chewy candy (toffee)

 

Challenges 

• Loss / degradation of texture and eating quality over shelf life
• Development of high quality, reduced-sugar confectionery
• Achieving elastic gelatine-like textures
• Reducing stoving times to increase production efficiency
• Glossy and resilient films that resist cracking in panned applications