We have traded with the same raw material suppliers for over 50 years, they have always provided a fantastic product, in a powdered form and their service continues to be prompt and reliable, meaning we have been able to establish long-term relationships with our customers. Our customers use the liquorice in a variety of ways, including medication, to create an acceptable taste experience and in confectionery products, these finished products are successfully sold around the world.
Please make contact to discuss your requirements, our technical experts are on hand with advice regarding usage and recipes. We are happy to arrange the logistics and can schedule deliveries across the world.
Carob powder is used in chocolate recipes as a part replacer for more costly cocoa. In chilled or frozen chocolate type products usually up to 18% of the cocoa level can be replaced by carob although some users replace up to 30% of the cocoa, adding something additional to balance the colour.
In ambient products such as drinks etc. approximately 12% of the chocolate content can be replaced by carob and up to 16% if the colour is adjusted.
Carob Powder is a natural sweetener made from the pod of the carob shrub – a flowering evergreen that belongs to the pea family and is native to Mediterranean areas, such as Southern Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Its name is believed to have originally derived from the word carat – a unit of weight for gold and gemstones.
Carob powder is made by grinding ripe carob pods into a fine powder that’s absolutely packed with valuable nutrients, including fibre, protein, B vitamins, as well as calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, manganese, chromium, copper and nickel.
Arguably one of the greatest benefits of carob powder, however, is that it boasts such a deliciously rich chocolate flavour and aroma, albeit with a less bitter aftertaste than pure, raw cacao. This means that you can use carob powder in exactly the same way as you would cacao powder, to give a lovely chocolate flavour to smoothies, shakes and protein drinks, or to add a delightful chocolate twist to raw biscuits, cakes and desserts.
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