NOVATION® Lumina functional native starches
High-performance, natural* texturizers for your most delicate applications
Meet consumer demand for clean labels without compromising flavor, color, texture or performance
Recognizing ingredients, and avoiding artificial ones, is important to consumers and influences their purchasing decisions according to Ingredion's Proprietary Global Clean Label Consumer Study. But formulating for clean labels and consumer-winning claims like "natural," "all-natural," and "no artificial ingredients" while achieving creamy, smooth textures and maintaining your applications light colors and delicate flavors can be a challenge.
How can you formulate the clean and simple labels consumers want while maintaining your products' light colors, nuanced flavors, luxurious textures and expected performance?
With NOVATION® Lumina functional native starches and our clean label formulation expertise, we can help you achieve a consumer-preferred label while benefiting from a modified starch-like performance. We have what you need, even in your most sensitive cook-up applications, including clean label:
- Dairy — yogurts, desserts, custards, yogurt drinks
- Soups and sauces — white sauces, cooking creams, ready meals, dressings
- Fruit and vegetable preparations — fillings, fruit preps, baby meals
- Alternative meats and dairy products — vegan products, coconut and nut milks/yogurts
Designed for delicate applications
NOVATION® Lumina functional native starches offer outstanding flavor release and neutral color, making them ideal texturizers for white or light-colored applications with more subtle flavors.
Clean label alternatives for modified starches
Like modified starches, NOVATION® Lumina functional native starches provide viscosity and gel strength to help create creamy, smooth textures. These clean label ingredients also offer excellent freeze/thaw and shelf life stability and have a high process tolerance, ideal for products that undergo harsh processing conditions.
Consumer-preferred labels
Labeled simply as the starch source, such as corn starch or rice starch , natural* NOVATION® Lumina functional native starches offer the functionality of modified starches and support “natural” and “no artificial ingredients” claims. The clean label texturizers are also non-GMO and gluten-free, and do not require allergen labeling.
Functional native starches
Clean labels go hand-in-hand with quality food products. Our clean label functional native starches can be added to simple ingredient listings because they're naturally derived without any chemical modification.
This line of non-GMO and minimally processed starches provides texture and stability in formulations like sauces, soups, and baked goods.
Modified starches
Modified starches are altered to enhance their functional properties and maximize stability both on the shelf and in the freezer.
Depending on the type of food product, benefits can include enhanced thickening, gelling, and freeze-thaw stability.
Additionally, starches are an essential part of creating quality textures, such as consistency and sheen.
Explore functional starches
Maximize the flexibility of your food products with an ingredient that performs in a range of applications. Starch is an essential part of refrigerated, frozen and shelf-stable foods, not to mention a major component of industrial applications.
Starches
Enhance your food and beverage formulations with Ingredion's starches. Achieve premium texture and taste while meeting consumer preferences for affordability.
Create indulgent textures, improve nutrition and drive revenue
Enhance the texture and mouthfeel in foods to increase indulgence, improve quality, drive revenue, provide superior stability and have a high process tolerance with NOVATION® Indulge co-texturizing starches.
Specialty starches
Looking for a specific type of starch? Along with our traditional starches, Ingredion also offers specialty starch ingredients to perfect your formulations and labels.
Tapioca starch
Tapioca starch is a gluten-free ingredient derived from the cassava root and has a neutral taste.
Particularly useful in gluten-free products, it provides a chewy texture in baked goods and a clear, glossy finish in sauces.
Potato starch
Ingredion's potato starch is extracted from non-GMO potatoes and has a high amylose content, making it easily digested.
It's used both for binding and moisture retention while creating a smooth, creamy texture.
Rice starch
Consumers generally regard rice starch as a health ingredient because it's both hypoallergenic and easily digestible.
Rice starch has a smooth texture and adds stability to emulsified formulations like baby foods and sauces.
Pea starch
Pea starch, derived from yellow peas, is a popular ingredient for clean label claims.
It's rich in amylose and protein, making it an excellent additive for brands creating plant-based and high-protein products
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*Manufacturers should consult regulations specific to all target markets. Of the countries that had provisions in place to regulate the term 'natural' in May 2019, these products meet criteria of a natural food ingredient in the UK, France, Ireland, and associated EU legislation, and the global ISO Technical Specification (ISO/TS 19657).
This information is intended to support the efforts of our customers to develop and implement an appropriate labeling strategy for products containing Ingredion’s products. In all respects, the ultimate decisions on how to identify claims on food packages and label ingredients on food packages remains with our customers. Ingredion Incorporated and the Ingredion group of companies make no warranty about the accuracy or completeness of the information contained above or the suitability of any of our products for your specific intended use. We urge you to carefully review the relevant regulations and to seek appropriate legal counsel as you determine the labeling requirements applicable to your products.