Taste is a number one purchase motivator for most global consumers, so we make sure our fibres have a clean taste as well as a neutral colour. Tate & Lyle fibres that can also be easily blended into food and beverages to provide key functional benefits, as well as supporting several health benefits like gut and digestive health. Our portfolio of fibre plays well in different applications and offers fat, sugar and calorie reduction, lower glycaemic response, exceptional digestive tolerance and can support weight management*.
We work in partnership with you to respond to consumers’ changing tastes. From creating a new line of products to reformulating an existing line or launching a line extension, we can help you formulate the perfect product to meet your consumers' goals.
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We offer soluble fibres that provide exceptional taste, colour and texture, and ease of use across diverse bakery applications. They can also help to promote a selection of nutrition benefits, and some are often used in “no sugar added” and “sugar-free” baked goods*.
The neutral taste and added benefits of our fibres are ideal for beverage manufacturers looking to increase brand appeal and expand in the health-drink category. If you’re looking to improve body, mouthfeel and texture in sugar reduced products, we can provide you with the right solutions.
Our portfolio of fibres can help you create delicious and creamy dairy products that consumers will love; from prebiotic and bone health* benefits to a creamy mouthfeel and smooth texture in reduced-fat dairy products, the possibilities are vast.
Clean on taste and neutral in colour, our fibre portfolio can be used to help you create enriched, vegan, clean- label and reduced-fat/calorie products.
Our fibres can be applied across a variety of your formulations. Their clean taste and texture and neutral colour are ideal for use in a range of soups, sauces and dressings.
TA-LITE® Polydextrose is a versatile soluble fibre that enhances the nutrition profile of your low-calorie formulations. It provides the body and texture of sugar with minimal colour and off-flavour, making it perfect for reduced sugar and calorie products. With excellent solubility, process stability, and digestive tolerance, STA-LITE® simplifies application work and supports high inclusion levels. Ideal for calorie reduction and sugar-free applications, it promotes a lower rise in post-meal blood glucose1. Benefit from our global supply network and versatile product formats to ensure cost-effective solutions for your needs.
PROMITOR® Soluble Fibre is a versatile, high-tolerance prebiotic2 fibre that improves the nutritional profile of your products while ensuring great taste and consumer comfort. Its high fibre content makes PROMITOR® Soluble Fibre ideal for use at lower inclusion levels to reach nutritional targets while ensuring consumer acceptance and comfort. Ideal for calorie and sugar reduction, it supports enhanced calcium absorption3 and a favorable post-meal blood glucose response4. Benefit from various labeling options and our global supply network, ensuring cost-effective solutions with different fibre content levels and formats to meet your needs.
At Tate & Lyle, we are committed to being at the forefront of innovation, continuously seeking the best solutions to meet our customers' needs. We are proud to expand our comprehensive portfolio of specialty soluble fibres with the addition of EUOLIGO® FOS (Fructooligosaccharides) and GOSYAN® GOS (Galactooligosaccharides). These new offerings from our acquisition of Quantum Hi-Tech (China) Biological Co., Ltd (Quantum or QHT), a leading dietary fibre business located in China, enhance our ability to provide versatile, high-quality ingredients that support digestive health, improve nutritional profiles, and deliver exceptional taste and texture. Trust Tate & Lyle for cutting-edge fibre solutions that drive your product success.
EUOLIGO® FOS (Fructooligosaccharides)
Our EUOLIGO® FOS (fructooligosaccharides) portfolio offers a prebiotic5 soluble fibre that closely mimics sugar functionality, enabling the creation of great-tasting, healthier products. With very low viscosity and excellent solubility, EUOLIGO® FOS simplifies application work and and contributes to a balanced flavour profile in reduced-sugar formulations. Ideal for sugar-reduced formulations, EUOLIGO® provides optimal functionality and supports improved nutrition with benefits like calorie and sugar reduction, enhanced mineral absorption6, and favourable post-meal blood glucose response7. Complementary to our PROMITOR® and STA-LITE® lines, EUOLIGO® opens up new opportunities for innovative texture solutions.
GOSYAN® GOS (galactooligosaccharides)
GOSYAN® GOS (galactooligosaccharides) is a chain of galactose sugars that is generally derived from lactose. It is nondigestible in nature and recognised as a prebiotic8. GOSYAN® GOS can be applied in functional foods, dairy products, milk powders and complementary food for young children. GOSYAN® GOS is often applied as key soluble fibre in infant milk formula and increasingly in nutrition, baby food, and yoghurts. GOSYAN® is stable at high temperatures and low pH during processing.
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Our scale and efficient manufacturing facilities provide a cost-effective supply of ingredients for distribution through our global supply chain. We have three global fibre manufacturing locations which provide a broad reach and improved supply security for our customers.
Sites in the US, Netherlands, Slovakia and China afford us a truly global footprint which mitigates the risk of regional supply disruption of PROMITOR® Soluble Fibre, and STA-LITE® Polydextrose.
Fibre FAQs
According to research, (Qualtrics, Fibre study for Tate & Lyle, 2016, 11 countries, 800 adults per country), 55% of consumers want to reduce sugar in their diet and 52% want to consume more fibre. Tate & Lyle’s portfolio of fibres enables food and beverage manufacturers to address both of these consumer needs while maintaining taste and texture.
Tate & Lyle fibres provide a variety of consumer desired nutrition and health benefits including digestive health, weight management through calorie reduction and/or satiety, beneficial glycaemic response, enhanced calcium absorption - important for bone health, prebiotic effects and healthy weight management (lower calories).* Tate & Lyle’s nutrition scientists will be happy to share the science behind these benefits and the Regulatory team can advise on local requirements for specific claims.
Another ever-evolving consumer trend is the desire for a clean label. Clean label means different things to different consumers including easy to recognise and pronounce ingredients, or free from gluten, GMOs and allergens. Tate & Lyle would like to better understand your clean label requirements and discuss which of our fibre(s) best addresses those needs.
All Tate & Lyle fibres provide meaningful consumer, health and functionality benefits, and PROMITOR® Soluble Fibre also has meaningful benefits that other fibres do not. PROMITOR® Soluble Fibre, the consumer friendly fibre, has several important benefits including digestive tolerance, clarity and process and shelf stability.
According to the definition that was adopted by ISAPP (International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics), a prebiotic is selectively used by the gut microorganisms in a way that directly results in a health benefit.
Tate & Lyle has a variety of dietary fibres with proven physiological benefits including prebiotic effects.
- Different countries, including the EU, have not yet authorised prebiotic claims. But where allowed, PROMITOR® Soluble Fibre meets the new definition because it is selectively used by the gut microbiome and, most likely because of a reduction in the gut pH, causes an increase in calcium absorption, which is important for bone health.
- Fructooligosaccharides (FOS) are a type of dietary fibre with proven prebiotic properties9. They are fermented by beneficial gut bacteria, supporting digestive health. Studies suggest FOS helps strengthen the gut barrier, enhance immunity, promote a favourable glycaemic response10, lower pH11, and improve mineral absorption12.
- Galactooligosaccharides (GOS) could be considered as prebiotics by serving as substrates selectively utilised by beneficial gut microorganisms, they promote digestive health and offer additional benefits. Research suggests that the short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) produced during their fermentation support gut health, immune function, mineral absorption, and even brain and mental health13.
*Not all soluble fibres have the same health benefits. Prospective purchasers are advised to conduct their own tests, studies, and regulatory review to determine the fitness of Tate & Lyle products for their particular purposes, product claims, or specific applications.
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