Company: Ingredion Inc., Westchester, IL

Website: www.ingredion.com, www.penford.com, www.gumtech.com

Ingredient Snapshot: Ingredion Inc. is helping food manufacturers overcome rising egg costs, improve profitability and reduce reliance on eggs with a wide range of egg replacement ingredient solutions, including options from its business units Gum Technology and Penford Foods Ingredients, such as Coyote Brand stabilizer and GumPlete starch and gum blends (Gum Technology); PenNovo modified starches (Penford); and PRECISA Bake 100 egg replacer and VITESSENCE pulse proteins (Ingredion). According to the company, these solutions allow manufacturers to successfully replace and/or reduce egg products in a variety of applications without compromising the visual and texture appeal of products, and sometimes adding benefits.