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Hydrating Citri-Fi Citrus Fiber Activates the Functional Benefits in Food Products
September 29, 2020
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Hydrating Citrus Fiber – Citri-Fi® Functional Fiber

Fiberstar’s Citri-Fi® citrus fiber provides natural functional benefits which improve food product stability and quality. However, hydrating citrus fiber is key. Due to the natural fiber’s composition of both insoluble and soluble fiber, which contains natural intact pectin, Citri-Fi provides high water holding and emulsification properties. As a result, product developers create products with cleaner food labels without compromising quality. Fiberstar’s technical service team highlighted the below critical success factors when hydrating citrus fiber. 1) Why is hydrating Citri-Fi citrus fiber important when used in food products? Citri-Fi citrus fiber is created from byproduct of the citrus juicing industry. The…

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New Video Series: Replace Methyl Cellulose in Meat Alternatives using Citri-Fi® Citrus Fiber
September 4, 2020
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Replace Methyl Cellulose in Meat Analogs Video Series

Fiberstar, Inc. released a video series covering the three new solutions using citrus fiber to clean up meat alternative labels. For instance, the videos demonstrate how to create the meat-free or vegan patties using specific ingredients, equipment and methods. Ultimately, the citrus fiber replaces methyl cellulose and creates the meat-like texture and bite that consumers expect. Fiberstar launched three new solutions sets using natural citrus fiber to replace methyl cellulose in meat alternatives. As a result, these innovative solutions meet the three requirements when developing meat substitutes. First, it needs to create meat-like appearance and texture. Secondly, the solution set…

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Citri-Fi Citrus Fiber Extract Provides High Water Holding and Emulsification Properties to Food Products
June 9, 2020
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Citrus Fiber/Fibre: Frequently Asked Questions

Citrus fiber is the “go-to” clean label ingredient, especially Citri-Fi® citrus fiber. This natural citrus fiber sets itself apart from other citrus fibers due to its sustainable story, patented technology and superior functional benefits. For instance this citrus fiber or citrus fiber extract provides high water holding, emulsification and gelling properties. In addition, it cleans up food labeling. Learn more about this superior citrus fiber by checking out the frequently asked questions. Because of citrus fiber’s clean label functional benefits in food and beverage products, the food industry placed citrus fiber in the limelight. As a result, customers continue to ask…

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Citri-Fi Citrus Fiber Minimizes Ice Crystal Formation and Improves Creamy Mouthfeel of Natural Ice Cream
June 2, 2020
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Natural Ice Cream using Citrus Fiber

Citri-Fi® citrus fiber provides water holding and emulsification properties that benefit natural ice cream. This ice cream ingredient replaces chemical emulsifiers and stabilizers which shortens and cleans up food labeling. Moreover, Citri-Fi minimizes ice crystallization during storage. As a result, frozen desserts using citrus fiber maintain a smooth texture and full body.  Ice cream is one of those foods that puts a smile on anyone’s face around the world. Since its invention, this frozen dessert turned into many shapes, forms, flavors and textures. And thru the years, mass production, storage and shipping allowed many smiling faces around the world to enjoy…

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Citri-Fi Citrus Fiber Provides Freshness and Emulsification to Clean Bakery Products
May 27, 2020
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Clean Label Bakery: Using Citrus Fiber

Citri-Fi citrus fiber provides high water holding and natural emulsification. Though it qualifies as a fiber under the FDA, this natural ingredient offers many more functional benefits to clean label bakery. For instance, this citrus fiber retains moisture which improves the perception of freshness over time. As a result, bakers create high quality conventional or gluten-free bakery foods. Moreover, due to its high water holding capacity, this natural food ingredient also reduces eggs and/or oil in baked goods such as muffins and cakes. At the same time, at low usage levels, these bakery items retain the full-fat and rich mouthfeel….

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Citri-Fi Citrus Fiber Improves Emulsification and Stability of Egg-free Sauces and Dressings like Mayonnaise
April 21, 2020
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Egg-Free Sauces: A Hard Egg to Crack BLOG

Citri-Fi® citrus provides natural emulsification and high stability to egg-free sauces and dressings like mayonnaise. As low as 0.25% to 1.50% usage level delivers thickness and full body to no egg dressing food products. Due to its high functionality, this citrus fiber also replaces starches and gums to clean up food labeling. Eggs are essential when creating foods such as baked goods, dairy desserts, dressings and sauces. Because of its composition, eggs offer the biggest bang for the buck – emulsification. On the other hand, despite eggs being a natural food, it does not serve the vegan, vegetarian and/or allergen-free…

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Citri-Fi TX Texturizing Citrus Fiber/ Fiber Provides Meat-like Texture, Cold Binding and Cleaner Labels to Meat Alternatives
April 14, 2020
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NEW Texturizing Citrus Fiber: Citri-Fi® for Meat Alternatives

Fiberstar launches a new texturizing citrus fiber, Citri-Fi® TX, which creates meat-like texture and provides cold binding in meat alternatives. And this new citrus fiber gives formulators the ability to remove gluten and other gelling and/or water absorbing ingredients to improve food labeling. Fiberstar, Inc launches Citri-Fi® TX Texturizing Citrus Fiber which improves texture, quality and the eating experience of meat alternatives. Today, meat analog manufacturers continue the search for clean label ingredients to improve the eating qualities of their food products. However, some of the challenges they encounter include soggy or mushy texture, lack of juiciness and sub-par quality. Fiberstar…

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March 27, 2020
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Bathing Bakery Ingredients with Clean Label Citrus Fiber BLOG

Citri-Fi® citrus fiber’s high water holding and emulsification properties improve a variety bakery products geared toward clean label, vegan, paleo and health and wellness markets. This clean label bakery ingredient’s low usage level and natural labeling makes it an essential food ingredient when baking. Creating clean foods, especially bakery products, have different meanings depending on the consumers. Some believe clean refers to the ingredient declaration. For example, food labeling should list recognizable ingredients and be short in length. On the other hand, others think clean defines health and wellness. As a result, many consumers adhere to specialty diets like paleo…

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Citri-Fi Citrus Fiber / Fibre Improves Stability, Emulsification and Label of Cream-based Foods
March 12, 2020
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BLOG: Cleaning up Cream-based Foods using Citrus Fiber

Citri-Fi® citrus fiber improves cream-based foods by stabilizing oil and water (emulsification) and creating a rich and full body mouthfeel. Moreover, this natural ingredient improves labeling by replacing starches, gums and other chemical stabilizers. One of the mouth’s favorite past time is seeking out creamy and rich foods. Cream-based foods range from cottage cheese dressing, cole slaw dressing and cooking creams. Also, this term includes whipping creams and foods as well as cream cheese, spreads and dips. Many foods containing a creamy profile originate from dairy-bases. On the other hand, there are many non-dairy creamy foods on the market due…

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Citri-Fi Citrus Fiber/ Fibre Used in Clean Label Yogurts to Improve Stability, Mouthfeel and Thickness
February 20, 2020
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BLOG: How to Make Clean Label Yogurt using Citrus Fiber

Citrus fiber can be used to create clean label yogurts due to its highly functional benefits including stability, reduced syneresis, improved mouthfeel and increased thickness. Yogurt is the one food product that exploded in popularity over the years. Consumers quickly embraced this health halo food regardless of its contents. However, today, the clean label movement is changing how consumers decide on which yogurts to purchase. And seeing that retailers’ dairy sections offer wall-to-wall variety of yogurts, it is no surprise consumers are reading labels to determine the best choice. Now, not only do consumers need to be aware of added…

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