Snacks
Consumers increasingly demand healthy snacks. To stay competitive, offering quality, healthy, and attractively priced products is essential. We produce specialty tapioca starch-based ingredients for savory snacks, including potato snacks, vegetable snacks, and snack mixes. Our technical experts assist you from concept to ingredient selection, scale-up, and consumer validation, ensuring your success in the market.
Benefits
Modified starches offer excellent resistance to heat and mechanical processes, making them ideal for snacks that undergo frying, baking, or extrusion, maintaining the product's quality and texture.
Heat & Process Tolerance
Modified starches enhance the stability of snack products by preventing moisture migration and ingredient separation, ensuring the product remains fresh and appealing for longer periods.
Improved Shelf Life Stability
These starches ensure a smooth and consistent texture in snacks, providing a desirable crispiness and enhancing the overall eating experience.
Enhanced Texture & Crispiness
Modified starches act as stabilizers, preventing ingredient separation in fillings, coatings, and dips within snacks, ensuring a uniform and appealing product.
Stabilization of Ingredients
These starches enhance the structure and integrity of snacks during processing and storage, making them easier to handle and ensuring consistent quality in the final product.
Improved Processing & Handling
Applications
Crackers
BENEGEL starch a pregelatinized tapioca starch, delivers a light, crispy texture while enhancing melt-ability and puffing ability. These starch solutions provide superior texture and promote wellness, achieving both simultaneously.
Pretzel
In pretzels, BENEGEL starch enhances the texture and crunch. It ensures a consistent, crispy bite and helps maintain freshness, making these snacks more appealing over time.
Wafers
Getting the perfect crispy texture without fragility and cracking during transportation is a key challenge for producers. BENETEX 36, our modified tapioca starch, enhances crispness, improves puffing ability, and ensures a smooth appearance, maintaining product quality throughout the supply chain.
