Developments in fat reduction

Ulrick & Short Ltd, the British owned clean label starch specialist, claims that a renewed focus on developing new and delicious reduced-fat food products is crucial to the success of food manufacturing in the UK and Europe.

Ulrick & Short supplies household name food manufacturers across the world with clean label non-GM ingredients, innovating across a diverse range of food industry sectors including bakery, meat, dairy, soups and sauces.

The company has refined its range of Delyte functional fat replacers into what it claims is the best on the market for processed foods, extremely versatile across multiple applications and reducing fat and calorie content with the simplest reformulation.

Ulrick & Short director Adrian Short explains: “There’s no question that reducing fat – butters and milk solids – and salt content in food is now acknowledged as one of the food industry’s primary challenges.

“Even the confectionery and biscuit sector has announced its aim to introduce reduced-fat versions of old favourites in an effort to improve the healthiness of our nation’s snacks.

“Functional fat replacers will be absolutely crucial to achieving this. Delyte is a unique product, a clean label fat replacer which is by far the best product on the market in terms of label declaration. In taste tests Delyte has performed better than full-fat equivalents, providing indulgence in both texture and mouthfeel. It’s very well-established as a fat replacer in baked goods, and sauce and dessert formulations are also perceptively creamier but healthier – the ideal solution.”

As well as offering increased process tolerance, Delyte is allergen-free and can be used in multiple hot and cold applications.