TEXTURAL INNOVATION

We think texture is fundamental to consumer-winning food product development. We can help manufacturers unlock the full potential of texture to ensure product success, because: we understand texture…and we know how to make it work.
     

TEXTURE

Consumer insight is our driving force for texture innovation. We examine the impact of texture on consumer emotions. Then we apply our sensory experience to translate consumer terminology into technical language that can be used by our formulators and our customers. We combine that knowledge with our processing expertise and our portfolio of 500 specialty starches – the backbone of texture – to create the textural characteristics that tap in to consumer desires. 
National Starch Food Innovation should be your partner of choice for textural innovation in:
    Dairy
    Soups, sauces, gravy, dressings
    Snacks 
    Beverages
    Baked goods
Interested? Our dairy and snack texture brochures will tell you more.


CULINOLOGY®

Our team of skilled chefs and experienced food formulators who take the outputs of sensory, applications, Cereal Science, and Materials Science and work with customers to create scale-able prototypes with great taste and texture.

Sensory evaluations

Our Sensory Team, working with trained descriptive panelists, is translating consumers’ basic descriptions of food textures (e.g., smooth, crunchy, creamy, rich) into a comprehensive lexicon of technical terms for food formulators. 

DIAL-IN™ Texture Technology Delivers robust, cost-effective solutions

DIAL-IN™ Texture Technology
Delivers rapid, robust, cost-effective solutions

Consumer Insights

Consumer insights are Important to our customers and important to us! That’s why we have a focus group facility where we conduct consumer research on  texture descriptors, organic/natural, indulgence, in markets like dairy, bakery , ready meals and category appraisal on consumer preferred textures.

Texture characterization

Our Materials Scientists and Rheologists use rapid measurement techniques to assess the texture of materials and design new functional systems. They will soon be using unique robotic equipment, which will work at more than ten times the speed of current efforts.