Beverages
More consumers are looking for healthful, great tasting drinks that are low calorie, reduced sugar and enhanced with fibre. Litesse® can help beverage manufacturers to meet this growing need, while providing the ideal properties for beverage formulation.
Litesse® is a highly soluble speciality carbohydrate that is prebiotic and high in fibre. It can be used to develop a wide range of ready-to-drink and powdered beverages that are low-calorie, sugar free, and fibre-enriched, including:
Carbonated beverages
Juice-based drinks
Diet beverages
Soy and dairy beverages
Nutritional/meal replacement beverages
Isotonic, still and flavoured waters
Litesse® offers multiple benefits when used in beverages:
- Prebiotic and high in fibre to improve digestive health
- 1 kcal/gram for the formulation of reduced calorie, diet drinks
- Clean flavour profile and neutral taste
- Superior stability over a broad pH range and under a variety of processing and storage conditions
- Highly water soluble and available in powder, granular and liquid forms
- Improves mouthfeel by providing body without gumminess
- Taste masking properties help minimize off-notes caused by sweeteners, soy, vitamins, minerals and other supplements added to nutritional beverages
- Low viscosity enables a higher level of incorporation versus other fibers that can build excess viscosity
