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Food & Beverage

The Food & Beverage industry is one of the most important and dynamic sectors to work in. The product range is enormous and is subject to constant change in consumer demands and market developements. Next to that the Food & Beverage industry also has to respond to social requirements on sustainability and the environment.

Van Wankum Ingredients is constantly aware of these changes and adapts to them. Therefore, the products Van Wankum Ingredients offers are always useful, functional ingredients, sweeteners and other food additives that are  essential to this industry. Underneath you will find a selection of products Van Wankum Ingredients has in stock. With use of our product list you can order your samples.

Resistant Dextrin

Resistant Dextrin is a kind of low calorie dextran obtained from corn starch by heating decomposition
in acid condition. It belongs to low molecular water-soluble dietary fiber. Dietary fiber is an
indispensable material to maintain human health. Soluble dietary fiber affects food intake. It can
reduce weight while controlling energy intake.

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Quinine Derivatives

Quinine is an alkaloid originally isolated from the Cinchona family trees. It is an antimalarial agent, anticholinergic, antihypertensive and hypoglycaemic agent. It is the most researched and potent subgroup in anti-prion drugs. Primairily Quinacrine has been used in combination with several other agents to increase its effectiveness. Find out more about Quinine Derivative here.

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Trehalose

Trehalose

Stability and less sweetness. Product developers can use it either to improve existing products or to create innovative new products. Trehalose is a non-reducing disaccharide consisting of two glucose molecules linked α,α –1,1. It has excellent process and finished product stability. Trehalose is a multi-functional sugar. Its mild sweetness (45% sucrose), low carcinogenicity, low hygroscopicity, high freezing-point depression, high glass transition temperature and protein protection properties are all of immense benefit to food technologists. Trehalose is fully caloric, has no laxative effects and after ingestion is broken down in the body to glucose. It has a moderate glycemic index with low insulin emic response.

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Erythritol

Erythritol is a natural sugar alcohol/polyol approved for use as a food additive across the world. Erythritol is almost 70% as sweet as sugar and used as a bulk sweetener. Erythritol discovered in 1848 and it occurs naturally in some fruit and fermented foods. Erythritol’s flavor profile is very similar to sugar. It is non-cariogenic and has the highest digestive tolerance of the polyols. Since it is natural, it does not cause any side effects and tastes almost exactly like sugar without the calories.

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Polydextrose

Polydextrose is a low calorie, sugar free, low glycemic, speciality carbohydrate that is prebiotic and widely recognized as Dietary fiber. It offers a range of physiological and functional benefits. Approved for use in over 50 countries, food manufacturers can rely upon Polydextrose in the formulation of low calorie, sugar free, reduced sugar, low fat foods and beverages. Polydextrose can also lower glycemic response while adding fiber to all kinds of processed foods. Polydextrose is a multi-functional ingredient with a wide variety of applications, including baked goods, dairy

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Luo Han Guo

The Luo Han Guo plant is cultivated for its fruit, whose extract is nearly 300 times sweeter than sugar and has been used as a low-calorie sweetener. The sweet taste of the fruit comes mainly from mogrosides, a group of triterpene glycosides that make up about 1% of the flesh of the fresh fruit.Through solvent extraction, a powder containing 80% mogrosides can be obtained, the main one being mogroside-5 (esgoside). It is used for Traditional Chinese medicine and applies to cure disease, such as high blood pressure, pulmonary tuberculosis, asthma, gastritis, whooping cough, acute & chronic tracheitis and acute & chronic tonsillitis, etc.

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Monk fruit extract

Van Wankum Ingredients is a full service ingredients provider for many different clients in the Food & Beverage, Cosmetics, Pharmaceutical and Health industries. We offer high quality ingredients and additives.

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Yeast beta-glucan

Yeast β-glucan is a scientifically proven biological defense modifier (BDM) that nutritionally potentiates and modulates the immune response. As a supplement, after swallowing orally, Beta glucan is ingested primarily through macrophage and dendritic immune cells, to nutritionally and safely yield, through immune response potentiation and modulation, in many instances various therapeutic healing effects are generated by the immune cells. Yeast beta glucan have been investigated for these immune enhancing properties, particularly their ability to activate macrophage immune cells and NK-Cells, plus in turn, the T-Cells, and B-Cells including selected cytokines and complement cells.

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Sucralose

Sucralose

Sucralose is a non-nutritive sweetener. The majority of ingested sucralose is not broken down by the body, so it is noncaloric. Sucralose is about 600 times sweeter than sucrose, twice as sweet as saccharin, and three times as sweet as aspartame. It is stable under heat and over a broad range of pH conditions.

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Stevia / Rebaudioside A

Stevia

Stevia is widely grown for its sweet leaves, which are the source of sweetener products known generically as stevia. The active compounds are various steviol glycosides, which have 250–300 times the sweetness of sugar. It is stable under heat and over a broad range of pH conditions. Stevia is available in different purities from RA60% till RA99%.

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