NOVATION® Lumina functional native starches
High-performance, natural texturisers for your most delicate applications
More consumers are shopping for clean and simple labels. In Asia-Pacific, 78% of consumers want to recognise the ingredients in the products they buy.1 Now you can formulate for the labels consumers want today while maintaining your products’ light colours, nuanced flavours, luxurious textures and expected performance. Labelled simply as “corn starch,” natural* NOVATION® Lumina functional native starches offer all the functionality of modified starches and enable “natural” and “no artificial ingredients” claims. These solutions also offer superior flavour release and neutral colour, allowing your products’ qualities to shine through.
Create appealing, flavourful and consumer-winning products
Recognising all ingredients, and avoiding artificial ones, is important to modern consumers. “Natural,” “all natural” and “no artificial ingredients” claims are the most influential on consumers’ purchasing decisions.1
With NOVATION® Lumina functional native starches, you can formulate for clean labels and consumer-winning claims, even in your most sensitive applications. These high-performance starches can help you create creamy, smooth textures that last without impacting your applications’ light colours or delicate flavours. They can also support “natural,” gluten-free, non-GMO and other free-from claims, adding even more appeal to your yoghurts, dairy desserts and beverages, sauces and dressings, soups and more.
The performance of modified starches
Get the functionality you need to maintain or improve your clean label products’ performance. NOVATION® Lumina functional native starches can help you create creamy, smooth textures, delivering similar viscosity and gel strength as modified starches. These texturisers also provide excellent freeze/thaw and shelf-life stability and have high process tolerance, and are ideal for sauces, alternative dairy and other products that undergo harsh processing conditions.
Designed for delicate applications
NOVATION® Lumina functional native starches offer outstanding flavour release and neutral colour, making them ideal texturisers for white or light-coloured applications with more subtle flavours.
Texturisers with label appeal
Create products that meet more consumers’ dietary requirements and lifestyle preferences with NOVATION® Lumina functional native starches. These texturisers meet the technical specifications for natural ingredients from the International Organization for Standardization, and can support “natural” claims and labels. They are also non-GMO and gluten-free, and do not require allergen labelling.
NOVATION® Lumina functional native starches
Light colours. Preferred flavours. On-trend labels.