From food, beverage, and specialised nutrition to personal care, household and industrial applications, our nature-based hydrocolloid solutions enhance texture, stability, and performance. Whether you’re looking to create creamy mouthfeel, improve suspension, or develop innovative clean-label formulations, Tate & Lyle delivers ingredients tailored to your formulation needs. Our portfolio of readily biodegradable ingredients can help you meet your goals in home and personal care to industrial applications.
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We work closely with our clinical nutrition customers to develop flavorful and highly functional products that sustain diets and maintain nutrition. With our vast, nature-based ingredient choices and extensive industry expertise, we serve both global and specialized manufacturers of products targeted for a range of clinical nutrition applications.
We offer bio-based, environmentally friendly ingredients for household products, from laundry detergents and dishwashing liquid to floor cleaners and air fresheners. Innovation, sensory experience and sustainability are at the heart of success in this category. Our nature-powered ingredient choices and application expertise make us the industry’s go-to development partner for addressing specific consumer needs, trends and lifestyles.
We deliver high performance ingredients for agriculture, construction, mining, oil field drilling, painting, the textiles industries and more. Our portfolio is proven to meet industry standards for reliability and performance at whatever jobsite conditions you encounter.
Discover nature-based ingredient choices to improve color, texture, shelf life and more functional characteristics in your meat and seafood products. Whether you want to increase yield, juiciness, sliceability or flavour, we offer an extensive range of gelling and texturising agents designed specifically for meat, poultry, processed meats, sausages and seafood.
Develop innovative, appealing textures for your personal care products with ingredients that are “good for you” and the environment too. Our nature-based ingredients are readily biodegradable, gentle on the skin, and provide unique textures for a more personalised skin care experience.
Extracted from certain species of red algae seaweed, this ingredient has been used in a variety of food applications for a very long time. Working with us, you can find the right carrageenan product to create textures ranging from free-flowing liquids to solid gels. In addition to offering standard types, we work in conjunction with customers to develop new products for specific applications like dairy, meat, personal care and home care products.
Upcycled from citrus peels that come from the juice industry, our next generation fiber ingredient turns food waste into an innovative product that addresses the needs of formulators and consumers alike.
This unique ingredient thickens, suspends and stabilises across a wide pH range at low use levels. Made by microbial fermentation, our COSMOS® and ECOCERT® certified diutan gum helps formulators develop next-level skin care, sun care, cosmetics, hair care and home care innovations. In addition, diutan gum is versatile enough to be used in agriculture, construction and industrial applications.
Our readily biodegradable ingredient is ideal for use in fabric care, home care and personal care applications. Versatile FDC retains its functional characteristics over a wide pH and temperature range. Compatible with salt and enzymes, its low use level makes it a cost-effective option for enabling differentiated offerings with eye-catching suspension.
A multifunctional suspension and stabilisation agent, nature-based gellan gum can be used alone or in combination with other ingredients to produce a wide variety of interesting textures. It is known for its ability to form a unique fluid gel that is highly efficient at suspending insolubles but also enabling a smooth pour. It can be used across a range of food, beverage, personal care and home care applications.
Our multifunctional dairy ingredient is a very stable form of whey protein with uniform microparticles roughly one micron in size. It behaves like a creamy fluid and acts like a fat replacement and emulsifier, delivering mouthfeel, stability and extra protein to foods and beverages.
Upcycled from citrus peels that come from the juice industry, pectin is an excellent gelling agent. Used for centuries to make jam, it also thickens, stabilises and can be a vegan alternative to gelatin. In personal care, pectin is microbiome-friendly, helping to balance skin’s normal pH and provides emulsion stability
A nature-based ingredient derived from carob tree seeds, refined locust bean gum provides good gel strength and water-binding properties to a range of food applications, especially beverages, processed cheese, pet food, confectionery and ready-to-consume desserts. It is often used in combination with other ingredients, such as carrageenan and gellan gum.
Fermentation-derived xanthan gum is the go-to solution across food and beverages, personal care, home care and industrial sectors for exceptional thickening and stabilising with a smooth flow. It also enables gluten-free applications from baked goods to salad dressings and more.