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Healthy and functional fibre solutions
CFF is one of the main manufacturers of dietary fibres worldwide. Located in Thuringia, the green heart of Germany, CFF is based in the middle of Europe to quickly deliver to all European markets and provide easy access to the harbours in the north of Germany. Within the SANACEL fibre range, CFF offers insoluble fibre concentrates, complex fibres and functional fibre blends, combining the nutritional value of natural fibre with their beneficial technological properties.
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riginally CFF focused on the production of insoluble dietary fibre concentrates like powdered cellulose, wheat, oat, bamboo and sugarcane fibres. Depending on the target and the type of application, fibre types are used in a size range of 23µm–1000µm. These products are white without odour or flavour, they are inert, as well as temperature and pH-stable. Their main functionality is a high water and oil binding capacity. They are well known to increase the texture of foods such as meat products with low meat content, high starch and fat content, here the fibre can imitate a high-quality meat product. The same is possible in 100% vegetarian meat substitutes. Because of the ability to strongly bind moisture, fibre is used to increase freshness of bakery products and breads or simply function as an anti- caking agent in spices.
Insoluble fibre contains at least 96% of dietary fibre. WHO (World Health Organization) recommends 30g of fibre in a healthy diet. Most people in industrialised countries never reach that target. Besides dietary fibre concentrates, CFF also offers complex fibres that naturally contain parts of soluble and insoluble fibre with specific technological functionality or health aspects. Complex fibres include vegetable fibres like potato and pea fibres or fruit fibres like apple and citrus, which come with specific flavour and colour profiles.
Enhancing functionality and health benefits Vegetable fibres like potato and pea are directly produced after harvesting and have therefore limited seasonal
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SANACEL’s dietary fibres improve texture and freshness in multiple food products.
availability. In orange juice production, orange peels serve as raw material for SANACEL citrus fibre with high-fibre content including functional pectins. Potato, pea and citrus fibre offer very high water binding capacities that increase with high temperatures or by shear processes. They offer viscosity- enhancing and emulsion-stabilising properties and are easily mixable with other dry ingredients. By a particularly gentle production from apple pomace SANACEL apple – an apple fibre is produced. This is a quite brown product, mainly used in dark breads or other bakery products where it contributes to increased baking volumes.
Technological advantages of combining soluble and insoluble fibres for food applications Not only because of health benefits, but also because of their technological properties, it makes sense to combine soluble and insoluble fibres. As already known, the insoluble fibres have the advantage of being able to prevent fat and water separation. Due to the structure,
they reach temperature stability over a very wide range. This makes the fibres suitable for use in both production of UHT and frozen products. In addition, insoluble components have a texturising function. In contrast to this, soluble dietary fibres have the technological advantage of having comparable properties to hydrocolloids. They have the ability to develop a 3D network, whereby a gel is formed and a high viscosity is achieved.
Quality-enhancing solutions delivered by SANACEL SANACEL add fibre blends that are developed according to individual product requirements, recipe guidelines or targets in close cooperation with the needs of the customer.
The business unit Food has become one of the fastest-growing businesses at CFF thanks to the strong development of cost-effective and quality-enhancing solutions offered by the versatile SANACEL dietary fibre range. ●
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