We supply a range of hydrocolloids, gelling agents, liquorice, tamarind and specialised commodities in a variety of different forms for use in the confectionery industry.
Gummy sweets, a staple in the confectionery world, derive their distinctive textures and chewiness from gelling agents. The selection of these agents is critical in shaping the final product’s appeal, texture, and suitability for diverse consumer preferences.
In chewy sweets, gelatine serves as an excellent emulsifier, as well as a gelling, foaming, and stabilizing agent, enhancing the mouthfeel, indulgence factor, and long-lasting flavour release of the products. Gelatine is also crucial for creating light, soft marshmallows.
Properties:
Gelatine forms firm, transparent, and thermally reversible gels, making it a top choice for gummy sweets. Its gelling properties give gummies their classic chewiness and firmness.
Advantages:
Gelatine’s water-binding and film-forming capabilities enhance the texture and consistency of gummies. Its versatility in texture modulation makes it a reliable gelling agent for manufacturers.
Properties:
Pectin, a plant-derived substance, gels in the presence of sugar and acid. It allows for a range of textures from soft to firm, making it a versatile tool for confectioners.
Advantages:
As a plant-based gelling agent, pectin is suitable for vegetarians and vegans. It enhances the mouthfeel and texture of gummies, providing a unique sensory experience.
Common Alternatives:
Vegan gelling agents such as agar-agar, carrageenan, and modified starches cater to diverse dietary needs while maintaining desirable gummy qualities, and can be used in vegan marshmallows.
Agar-Agar:
Derived from seaweed, agar-agar creates a firmer texture, offering a chewier bite ideal for vegan gummies.
Carrageenan:
Another seaweed derivative, carrageenan is known for its gelling, thickening, and stabilizing properties, allowing for varied gummy textures.
Advantages:
Vegan gelling agents expand market appeal, accommodating vegetarian, vegan, and certain religious diets, which is crucial in today’s diverse consumer market. We offer a Halal accreditation.
Explore our extensive range of functional, cost-effective stabilizer blends tailored for a variety of confectionery applications. Our expertly formulated stabilizer systems are optimized to enhance texture, control syneresis, and deliver significant processing efficiencies, ensuring superior product quality and performance.
Our stabilizer blends are suitable for a wide array of confectionery products, including medicated confectionery, gummies, boiled candies, pastilles, and chewing gums. Each blend is designed to meet the unique challenges of these applications, providing reliable and consistent results that enhance both the manufacturing process and the final product’s appeal.
We invite you to contact us to discuss your specific requirements in detail and in confidence. Our experienced technical team is dedicated to working closely with you to understand your needs and provide tailored solutions that meet your exact specifications. Reach out today to discover how our stabilizer blends can benefit your confectionery products.
Our groundbreaking cutting edge spray crystallisation technology enables us to produce an innovative novel range of high performance ingredients with unique characteristics ensuring optimum results and a new generation of opportunity for product developers.
This range includes the ChocoLux range of 100% real chocolate powders in a stable crystal form. Products include free flowing cocoa butter powder, cocoa mass and partial chocolate fractions for further processing.
We also offer a dairy free, low sugar ChocoLux product, SuperChoc, which is ideal for manufacturers looking for a great chocolate taste while not wanting to increase fat or sugar levels, perhaps to meet HFSS targets.
Our SuperLux range is easy to handle and incorporate low trans, non-hydrogenated natural 100% vegetable fat crystals from RSPO palm and non-palm sources for manufacturers looking to add fat to their confectionery recipes. SuperLux offers the opportunity to reduce total fat content and a significant reduction in saturated fat.
Please contact us to discuss your requirements in confidence with a member of our experienced spray crystallisation team.
Call us now to request a sample: +44 (0) 1992 577333