Fiber enrichment

The message is loud and clear: fiber is essential to health and wellbeing. A great number of consumers are seeking fiber in everything from breakfast cereals and snacks and to side dishes and beverages. You can create the fiber-rich products they’re searching for with help from Ingredion.

Our nutrition experts will steer you to the right choices in our robust portfolio of fibers, carefully chosen or developed to answer consumers’ top health concerns.

Proven ingredients to help fill the fiber gap

Together, we can create uniquely beneficial products for your consumers. 

• Bring more consumer-friendly fiber to your products with versatile VERSAFIBE™ 285 soluble corn fiber. This clean-tasting solution features 85% soluble fiber, high digestive tolerance and minimal sensory impact, to help you differentiate with higher fiber content and consumer-friendly claims in a variety of beverage, bakery and dairy applications. Plus, it excels in building build back bulk, texture, sensory and functional attributes in reduced-sugar formulations.

• Bring digestive health benefits to baked goods, snacks, pasta, smoothies and soups with HI-MAIZE® 260 high-amylose maize resistant starch, a dietary fiber-rich nutritional ingredient. A type 2 resistant starch, the dietary fiber received authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a qualified health claim

• Increase the level of good bacteria in the gut with NUTRAFLORA^® prebiotic fiber, a short-chain fructooligosaccharide (scFOS). It is scientifically proven to support digestive health[1] and is one of the most effective prebiotic fibers on the market today. Thirty percent as sweet as sugar, with a similar sweetness profile and fewer calories, the prebiotic can also help reduce sugar in your formulations

• Create value-added foods and beverages with a soluble prebiotic fiber that’s proven to promote immune and digestive function, BIOLIGO^® GL 5700 galacto-oligosaccharide (GOS) 

• Deliver just-right taste, texture, and even lower calories without impacting appeal with our type 4 resistant starches, both of which are Low FODMAP Certified, NOVELOSE^® 3490 tapioca-based dietary fiber and VERSAFIBE™ 1490 potato-based dietary fiber 

• Provide fiber — and protein  — with VITESSENCE^® plant-based protein concentrates and HOMECRAFT^® Pulse flours

Work with our formulation and CULINOLOGY^® experts to design fiber-rich products your consumers will love. 

[1] Hidaka K, Eida T, Takizawa T, Tokunaga T, Tashiro Y. Effects of fructooligosaccharides on intestinal flora and human health. Bifidobacteria Microflora 1986 5(1):37-50. Additional citations available upon request.