Description of Ingredion Incorporated's Business Segments
Glucose Syrups: Glucose syrups are fundamental ingredients widely used in
food products, such as baked goods, snack foods, beverages, canned fruits, condiments,
candy and other sweets, dairy products, ice cream, jams and jellies, prepared
mixes and table syrups. Glucose syrups offer functionality in addition to sweetness
to processed foods. They add body and viscosity; help control freezing points,
crystallization and browning; add humectancy (ability to add moisture) and flavor;
and act as binders.
High Maltose Syrup: This special type of glucose syrup is primarily used as
a fermentable sugar in brewing beers. High maltose syrups are also used in the
production of confections, canning and some other food processing applications.
Our high maltose syrups speed the fermentation process, allowing brewers to
increase capacity without adding capital.
High Fructose Corn Syrup: High fructose corn syrup is used in a variety of consumer
products including soft drinks, fruit-flavored beverages, baked goods, dairy
products, confections and other food and beverage products. In addition to sweetness
and ease of use, high fructose corn syrup provides body; humectancy; and aids
in browning, freezing point and crystallization control.
Dextrose: Dextrose has a wide range of applications in the food and confection
industries, in solutions for intravenous and other pharmaceutical applications,
and numerous industrial applications like wallboard, biodegradable surface agents
and moisture control agents. Dextrose functionality in foods, beverages and
confectionary includes sweetness control; body and viscosity; acting as a bulking,
drying and anti-caking agent; serving as a carrier; providing freezing point
and crystallization control; and aiding in fermentation. Dextrose is also a
fermentation agent in the production of light beer. In pharmaceutical applications
dextrose is used in IV solutions as well as an excipient suitable for direct
compression in tableting.
Polyols: These products are sugar-free, reduced calorie sweeteners primarily
derived from starch or sugar for the food, beverage, confectionery, industrial,
personal and oral care, and nutritional supplement markets. In addition to sweetness,
polyols inhibit crystallization; provide binding, humectancy and plasticity;
add texture; extend shelf life; prevent moisture migration; and are an excipient
suitable for tableting.
Maltodextrins and Glucose Syrup Solids: These products have a multitude of food
applications, including formulations where liquid syrups cannot be used. Maltodextrins
are resistant to browning, provide excellent solubility, have a low hydroscopicity
(do not retain moisture), and are ideal for their carrier/bulking properties.
Glucose syrup solids have a bland flavor, remain clear in solution, are easy
to handle and provide bulking properties.
Specialty Ingredients. We consider certain of our starch and sweetener products
to be specialty ingredients. Specialty ingredients comprised approximately 25
percent of our net sales for 2015, up from 24 percent and 21 percent in 2014
and 2013, respectively. Our specialty ingredients are aligned with growing market
and consumer trends such as health and wellness, clean-label, affordability,
indulgence and sustainability. We plan to drive growth for our specialty ingredients
portfolio by leveraging the following six platforms: Wholesome, Texture, Nutrition,
Sweetness, Delivery Systems and Biomaterial Solutions.
Wholesome — Clean and simple ingredients that consumers can identify and
trust
Nutrition - Nutritional carbohydrates with benefits of digestive health and
energy management
Texture - Precise texture solutions that optimize the consumer experience and
build back texture
Delivery Systems — Clean label emulsifiers that add value for customers
by protecting and stabilizing expensive ingredients and flavors
Sweetness - Sweetening systems that provide affordable, natural, reduced calorie,
and sugar-free solutions
Biomaterial Solutions - Nature-based materials for selected industrial segments
and customers that answer demand for sustainable, non-synthetic ingredients
Wholesome: Clean and simple specialty ingredients that consumers can identify
and trust. Products include Novation clean label functional starches, value
added pulse-based ingredients and Gluten Free offerings. Texture: Specialty
ingredients that provide precise food texture solutions designed to optimize
the consumer experience and build back texture. Include starch systems that
replace more expensive ingredients and are designed to optimize customer formulation
costs, texturizers that are designed to create rich, creamy mouth feel, and
products that enhance texture in healthier offerings. Nutrition: Specialty ingredients
that provide nutritional carbohydrates with benefits of digestive health and
energy management. Our fibers and complimentary nutritional ingredients address
the leading health and wellness concerns of consumers, including digestive health,
infant nutrition, weight and energy management, aging and immunity. Sweetness:
Specialty ingredients that provide affordable, natural, reduced calorie and
sugar-free solutions for our customers. We have a broad portfolio of nutritive
and non-nutritive sweeteners, including high potency sweeteners and our naturally
based stevia sweetener. Delivery Systems: Clean label emulsifiers that are designed
to add value for customers by protecting and stabilizing expensive ingredients
and flavors. Products include starches to help emulsify or mix natural colors
in beverages and specialty starches that encapsulate and protect flavors and
vitamins in pharmaceuticals and spray-dried food ingredients. Biomaterial Solutions:
Nature-based materials that help manufacturers become more sustainable by replacing
synthetic materials with nature-based ingredients in personal care, home care
and other industrial segments.
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