Limagrain Launches Innosense Range of Functional Flours for Extruded Snacks
Healthier snacking is not just a trend anymore and consumers are looking for more nutritional products with a clear and understandable composition. But improving the nutritional profile of savory snacks is a big challenge, especially for the direct extruded snacks.
The addition of whole grains, brans or pulse flours in the recipe offers good source of proteins, fibers and micronutrients to increase the nutritional value. However, their incorporation in the formulation of extruded snacks is usually associated with a decrease in expansion, a change in the microstructure and a loss of the general technological quality. That’s why Limagrain Ingredients developed a specific range of functional flours to overcome these challenges, dedicated to snacks and perfectly suitable for direct extrusion processes: Innosense functional flours.
The Innosense Nutrition collection is the perfect answer to combine nutrition while improving the processability for manufacturers:
- Innosense Brans & germs with Innosense wheat germ and brans
- Innosense Whole grains: maize, oat, barley, rye, wheat
- Innosense Pulses (fine or granulated): chickpea, yellow lentil, faba bean, red bean, red lentil, green pea
- Innosense limalin gold (lin and wheat)
The Limagrain Ingredients Snacks R&D team has a strong expertise when it comes to understanding processes and finding the right combination for the best results, and even for a Nutriscore improvement.