Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Ingredient Name
- Food Ingredients Functions
- Ingredients
- Lecithin
- Food Additive Number
- INS 322, INS 322(i)
- Technologies
Features & Benefits
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Food & Nutrition Applications
- Key Areas
CHOCOLATE PRODUCTION
Lecithin reduces the internal friction between sugar crystals and cocoa particles, which enables producers to control the rheological (flow) properties of the chocolate mass. This in turn saves on cocoa butter usage and therefore production cost.
MARGARINE PRODUCTION
Here lecithin has two key functions: it enables the oil and water phases to mix homogeneously, but also is able to sequester water droplets during frying, which means it has an excellent anti-spattering effect.
RELEASE AGENT
Lecithin acts as a release agent thus preventing the sticking or burning-on in many food applications. Lecithin can have this remarkable effect either as an ingredient included in a recipe, or indeed when blended to bespoke concentrations with oil and sprayed directly onto tins, belts, pans or irons.
INSTANTISING
One market which certainly continues to grow is the convenience market. Amongst other factors this is driven by the demand for ease of storage, ease of use and longevity of product. Lecithin is used in many powdered product applications, which need to be reconstituted in water or milk before final use. Lecithin is key to the success of instantisation by improving the “wetting” ability of powders and helping to disperse hydrophilic and lipophilic powder components.
TECHNICAL & INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
The list of lecithin’s uses in technical applications is almost endless, due to its lubricant, barrier and dispersal properties. Lecithin products are found in applications as diverse as paints, inks and leather tanning, to the release of tires and concrete from production molds, and for emulsifiers in oil-drilling applications.
OTHER KEY AREAS
Lecithin is also widely found in the feed, pharmaceutical, health and cosmetics’ industries.
Regulatory & Compliance
- Quality Standards
- Certifications
- BRC Food
- SGS
- Certified Cert ID
- NFA Approved
- Organic Soil Association
- Investors In People
- KLBD
- Vegeterian Society Approved
- inSYTE
- BRC Agents and Brokers