Ice cream
NUTRIOSE® for healthy ice cream means nutritional balance and a great taste experience
With our society's increasing emphasis on the prevention of obesity, sugar-free frozen desserts and ice cream are moving beyond the diabetic population to include a wide range of consumers.
Simultaneously, manufacturers must make sure that consumers feel that they can happily indulge themselves all year round rather than guiltily restricting their ice cream consumption to the summer months.
A combination of NUTRIOSE® and MALTISORB® maltitol achieves a convincing reduction in calorie and simple sugars, resulting in healthier products that are both well tolerated and great-tasting.
Nutritional Benefits
- Calorie and sugars reduction
Substitution of sugars (sucrose and glucose syrups at 4 kcal/g) by a combination of NUTRIOSE® (2 kcal/g)* and MALTISORB® (2.4 kcal/g)* achieves a significant calorie reduction.
- With a very low glycaemic response (about 25%), NUTRIOSE is suitable for diabetics, avoiding hyperglycaemia, while contributing to lowering the glycaemic load of foods.
- Due to high fiber content (up to 85%) and high digestive tolerance, NUTRIOSE® boosts the fiber consumption responsible for a healthy gut.
* depending on the local regulations
Technical properties
- International nutritional guidelines seek to reduce the intake of simple digestible sugars (i e sucrose, dextrose and fructose) while increasing that of fibers. NUTRIOSE® soluble fiber helps meet both these objectives to an unprecedented degree: in both ice creams and sorbets it makes the ideal sugar replacer, thanks to unequalled digestive tolerance.
Further application advantages are:
- Ease of use, thanks to high solubility and dispersibility
- Process tolerant
NUTRIOSE® is stable under heat treatment, homogenization and whipping.
No change in viscosity during the maturation phase is observed.
NUTRIOSE® ensures end-product shelf life stability.
Applications
Sugar-free / sugars-reduced / calorie-reduced ("light") ice cream, frozen desserts and sorbets.
