Developing Tasty Food and Beverages

Introduce new products, reduce costs, and gain a competitive advantage with Ashland Aqualon Functional Ingredients' food products. Consumers have high expectations for food with great taste, texture, and nutrition. And with Ashland Aqualon Functional Ingredients' products, you can exceed those expectations.

Recognized for quality, consistency, and performance, our stabilizers and gums are backed by production, research, and support facilities throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Our food scientists help create formulations that work from your lab through your production line straight to the consumer's table.

Ground-Breaking Food and Beverage Performance

• Texturize and stabilize your products with customized, performance-focused solutions.
• Perfect control over aeration, stiffness, and appearance whip your dairy toppings into shape.
Create firm, meaty products from vegetable protein that will have even the most discriminating carnivores reconsidering.
• Sauces and fillings won't slide, slip, boil, or migrate, leaving your crusts flaky and delicious.
• Enable fortified functional beverages and foods with stabilized proteins, increased soluble fiber, encapsulated ingredients, and suspended particulates.
• Make your fried foods healthier and reduce costs by controlling the quality and quantity of oil absorbed.
• Build better beverages with a smooth and light feel, even in low-calorie and dry powder systems.
• Keep baked goods softer and fresher for everyday nutrition and indulgent escapes.
• Let your customers have a soft chew with chewing gum bases designed for your product line.
• Suspend your citrus and cloud your beverages with the finest quality ester gums available.
  
  Ashland Aqualon Functional Ingredients' premium food ingredients are derived from cellulose, a renewable, natural raw material, used for their functional properties. We can help you find new ways to thicken, gel, suspend, immobilize, stabilize, or bind water.