Commitment N° 2: To innovate to produce more and better

Natural and functional ingredients

« The quest for more “natural” agrifood products is forcing industrialists to relook at their recipes and ban additives, coloring agents or certain texturing agents. Such an approach means we have to create ingredients with characteristics that enable us o obtain the same results without additives. At one of our major accounts, “clean labeling” sets the target for ready-made dishes of only using ingredients that might easily be found in the kitchen cupboard. With Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients' specific varieties, research and know-how it is possible to develop ingredients which can state they are “wheat flour” or “corn flour”, and reassure consumers. These natural functional flours are just as efficient as additives in providing texture and resistant during industrial processes (deep-freezing, shearing, sterilization…), while developing “home-made” flavors. »