This summer’s lineup of ingredients offers everything from flavor, mouthfeel and texture to bake-stable fillings and reduced-calorie applications.




Grande yogurt powder provides a more pronounced yogurt flavor and creamier mouthfeel and texture for coatings, dips, snacks, frozen desserts and nutrition bars. In frozen desserts, it adds stability while increasing the yogurt flavor.
Grande Custom Ingredients Group, a division of Grande Cheese Co.
Lomira, Wis.
800-772-3210
www.grandecig.com

HERZA Schokolade now offers its Chocnology specialities in micro-sizes. These miniature pieces are bake-stable, abrasion-resistant and capable of deep-freezing, making them appropriate for bakery products and mixes and ready-made frozen doughs. And, because they are widely dispersed, they give the end product a “chocolaty” appearance even though less material is being used. They come in white, milk or dark chocolate and as a three-color mix of the variants, and are available in coated or non-coated.
Pro Gourmet Foods
Port Orchard, Wash.
360-769-7420
www.kakaoberlinchocolate.com

Caravan Ingredients introduces the CI LT English Muffin 5, a conditioner developed to produce reduced-calorie English muffins. CI LT English Muffin 5 utilizes a combination of starches, gums, strengtheners and conditioners to produce a reduced-calorie English muffin without sacrificing on volume or eating quality.
Caravan Ingredients
Lenexa, Kan.
800-669-4092
www.caravaningredients.com

Puratos’ new chocolate fillings are bake-stable fillings that provide superior flavor.Cremfil Ultim, for example, is a water-based filling that allows water and real chocolate to mix in harmony for brownies, muffins, cupcakes and soft cookies, and is designed to preserve cake from drying out to create a soft and fresh product.Carat Filocremis a bake-stable compound chocolate filling that offers a superior flavor and mouthfeel comparable to real chocolate. Ideal for cookies, pralines, puff pastries and pull-a-parts.
Puratos Corp.
Cherry Hill, N.J.
856-428-4300
www.puratos.us

Butter Buds Food Ingredients offers parve-certified non-dairy butter and non-dairy cream flavors that are made with a proprietary enzyme technology and provide high-quality flavor and dairy richness. These new butter and cream flavors are suitable for use in bakery, confectionery, dry mixes and cheese products.
Butter Buds Food Ingredients
Racine, Wis.
262-598-9900
www.bbuds.com

Looking to produce a mouth-watering summertime treat? Turn to Van Drunen Farms (VDF) to create a new delightful product, or add a burst of citrus to an already existing item. VDF’s freeze-dried orange peels come in diced and granulated forms and are available in certified organic and kosher options. Each peel is lightly sweetened to curb an otherwise naturally bitter taste of the raw orange peel. They’re ideal for biscotti, pound cake and more.
Van Drunen Farms
Momence, Ill.
815-472-3100
www.vandrunenfarms.com

*Photo courtesy of Van Drunen Farms