A Single Ingredient with Multiple Benefits
Litesse® is one of the most versatile and cost-effective ingredients available to the food industry. It has been successfully incorporated into a wide variety of formulations such as nutrition bars, cereal, baked goods, dairy products, beverages, fruit spreads and fillings, chocolates, confections and frozen desserts, among many others.
Clean, neutral taste for appreciation of true flavours
Although it possesses many of the functional properties of sugar, Litesse® is essentially non-sweet. However, it is compatible with sugars and high potency sweeteners allowing the sweetness of formulations to be easily balanced. The clean, neutral taste of Litesse® also helps mask the off-notes that can result from the addition of soy, vitamins, minerals and other supplements found in nutritional products.
Highly soluble and stable
Litesse® has a higher water solubility than most carbohydrates and polyols, allowing up to 80% w/w solutions at 20°C (68°F). This high solubility makes Litesse® a straight forward, easy to use ingredient that can be readily incorporated into a wide range food and beverage formulations.
Litesse® has a clean taste, high solubility and excellent stability over a broad range of temperatures and pH conditions. These attributes, along with its colorless feature (Litesse® Ultra™), make Litesse® a truly versatile ingredient that is ideal for a variety of applications. It is available in powder, granulated and liquid forms, providing the flexibility to meet specific requirements of individual customers, processes and applications.
Improves texture and mouthfeel
In the finished formulation, Litesse® contributes solids and enhances eating quality. Litesse® solutions have a higher viscosity than sucrose or sorbitol solutions at equivalent concentration and temperature, and behave as Newtonian fluids. This characteristic enables Litesse® to achieve the desirable mouthfeel and smooth textural qualities that can be lost when replacing sugars and fats in food products. Litesse® acts as a humectant to help maintain softness and freshness while also extending shelf life. This is especially important for baked goods. In ice cream and frozen dairy products, the freezing point depression of Litesse® allows for the correct balance of textural characteristics and serves to create a desirable creaminess and smoothness.
All of these functional characteristics have contributed to many successful products in the marketplace, and present opportunities for future innovative applications. Litesse® is the single ingredient with multiple benefits.
