Clean-label enhancers made from tomatoes

Natural taste and color specialists Lycored have created a range of recipes to highlight the versatility of their real food ingredients from tomatoes. All will be presented at Food Ingredients Europe (November 28-30, Frankfurt), to demonstrate how the company can help clean up labels while enhancing taste and consumer appeal.

One of these products is a home-style pizza created with an artisanal bakery in Bergamo, Italy. Its base is low in salt but SANTE – Lycored’s tomato-based flavor enhancer, will deliver the flavor. The pizza is topped with tomato sauce designed by an Italian application specialist and enhanced with both SANTE and Lycored’s CTC (Clear Tomato Concentrate). CTC is a liquid serum that harnesses the balance of acidity and sweetness found in tomatoes to bring smoothness and complexity to savory products such as soups and sauces. The pizza sauce will demonstrate its power to intensify the tomato character of tomato-based foods.

Home-style pizza will be among recipes using Lycored's flavor enhancers at Fi Europe. Visit the company  in Hall 8, Stand No. A70

SANTE and CTC are clean-label solutions that can be declared as consumer-friendly ‘tomato concentrate’ or ‘natural flavor’, depending on local regulations.

Lycored will also highlight the versatility of its ingredients in the condiment category. It has created a special BBQ sauce, as well as a vegan mayonnaise concept that shows how SANTE can help manufacturers target vegetarian or vegan consumers with improved tasting products.

Christiane Lippert, Head of Marketing, Food, at Lycored, said: “There’s more pressure than ever on manufacturers to reduce or eliminate sodium and other unattractive ingredients.We’ve designed recipes that demonstrate how manufacturers can clean up labels while also enhancing flavour and consumer appeal.”

Also on show at FIE will be Lycored’s range of super-stable naturally derived colorants.A string of studies this year have demonstrated how well they perform in a range of applications, including flavoured sparkling waters, UHT-treated milks, surimi seafoodand fruit preparations in yogurts.

Lycored will be exhibiting at FIE in Hall 8, Stand No. A70.For more information, visit http://connect.lycoredfoodhub.com/dreamteam/