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One-stop solutions for color, flavor, antioxidants

Source:Food Bev Asia Release Date:2017-03-23 846
Food & Beverage
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Color, flavor and antioxidants for longer shelf life solutions are designed for Asian foods

WITH its natural ingredient blends, Kalsec is providing global customers with the color, flavor and shelf life their products require – and with the added convenience as well.

The company offers a range of pre-blended flavors such as Tom Yum, Masala, Kim Chi, Adobo, and Barbecue, to name a few. Made from natural ingredients to give foods their authentic taste, color and appearance, these spice and herb extracts simplify the process for customers, saving them the time and effort of sourcing, measuring and mixing different ingredients.

The products marketed in Asia are produced at Kalsec’s US plant, but raw materials for the blends are sourced from various parts of the world, according to Kalsec managing director for Asia Pacific, Kathleen Koh, who sees a growing market for natural ingredients in Asia.

Kathleen Koh, Kalsec managing director for Asia Pacific

Kathleen Koh, Kalsec managing director for Asia Pacific

Shades of yellow are derived from carrot and turmeric; orange from annatto red and paprika; and pink to purplish shades from anthocyanin pigments. 

Ms Koh highlighted the company’s unique capability to provide one-stop solutions – the right combination of spices, colors, and antioxidants – for processed foods like meat products or instant noodles. 

 “For a maker of instant noodles, for example, we can provide the Tom Yum base for the soup.  And then for the noodle dough itself, we can provide a natural yellow color from carrot. If they want antioxidant to make the powder last longer, they can use our Rosemary extract.”

Rosemary is one of Kalsec ‘s major products.  According to Ms Koh, Asian consumers use much of synthetic antioxidants ranging from BHA, BHT, TBHQ.  But there is also a trend toward the use of natural antioxidant solutions, especially in India, she said.

Straight from the backyard

Unlike many other manufacturers of rosemary extract, Kalsec has its own rosemary farm which offers many benefits like quality control.

“Having our own farm helps us ensure optimum quality for our product – we control it from the raw material source and we spend almost 50% of our R&D budget to look at how we could increase the antioxidant property of the rosemary leaf. The antioxidant property is all in the leaf,” she said.

The company has also developed several types of rosemary extracts for different applications including meat, seafood, bakery and chocolate filling, as well as beverage. “We have developed the third-generation Rosemary flavor. The first generation is 100% flavor, the third generation actually has the same antioxidant property but the flavor is only 5% of the first generation.” Ms Koh added that the flavor-sensitive applications include snack, bakery and the beverage.

In sausages, color is an important aspect to consumers. When exposed to light, the color naturally fades, but to help give sausages a longer natural-looking color, manufacturers can use the rosemary extract with Durabrite® brand which lends a reddish-brown shade.

One of the setbacks in spices is the loss of their natural color over time when subjected to heat.  Oftentimes the flavor is lost as well. Kalsec’s own paprika contains an antioxidant solution to retain the original color of the spice despite the application of heat. In an experiment, it was revealed that Kalsec’s paprika retains its natural color as well as its flavor even up to five days, and does not go rancid with an oil-like smell easily as compared to other paprika brands

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