Vegetable fibres: Multifunctional clean label ingredients

Fibres are natural, clean label ingredients offering high functionality in many food products thanks to their high water-binding capacity

Besides health benefits, vegetable fibres provide great functionality to many food applications such as bakery, ready meals, soups and vegetarian food products, etc. where they can improve texture, be used as a bulking agent in sugar-reduction and to manage moisture in fat-reduction and much more.

Vegetable fibres such as citrus fibres and carrot fibres are functional and natural ingredients that bring effective value to the final product thanks to their capability to bind up water. In fact, they can bind up to 26 times their own weight.

In meat products such as burger meat and sausages proper moisture binding is important to ensure that the juices stay in the product both while it is sitting in the package and also during cooking. It is possible to improve the juiciness and avoid water loss in the final product with e.g. carrot and pea fibres. Furthermore, adding fibres with high water-binding capacity in a recipe, allows lowering the manufacturing cost.

Also for vegetarian or plant based meat products formulated with e.g. beans, peas and lentils, the excellent water binding capabilities of e.g. citrus fibres can ensure that the final product does not crumble and that juiciness is maintained also after cooking, ensuring a good taste sensation.

Selected fibres - properties
FIBRE FIBRES % WATER BINDING % TASTE COLOUR
Citrus
88-93
2500
Low acidity
Off-white
Carrot
92
100-2600
Neutral
Off-white
Pea
88
300
Neutral
White
Wheat
95
350-950
Neutral
White
Bamboo
96
450-950
Neutral
White
Applications

Vegetable fibres are used in a broad range of applications including:

  • Meat & fish 
  • Plant-based
  • Bakery & pastry 
  • Soups
  • Ready meals

Functional benefits of vegetable fibres

  • Improve juiciness
  • Manage water and fat losses
  • Gain of texture
  • Stabilise oil-in-water emulsions
  • Increase viscosity thereby providing good mouth-feel when replacing/reducing fat

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