Tate & Lyle : Extends Clean-Label Portfolio with CLARIA Delight Tapioca-Based Starches at IFT Food Expo

Tate & Lyle line extension enables manufacturers around the world to formulate products with cleaner labels while maintaining excellent taste, texture, colour and performance.

(LONDON) - 15 July 2016 - Tate & Lyle, a leading global provider of food ingredients and solutions, announces an extension to its' line of CLARIA Functional Clean-Label Starches with the addition of CLARIA Delight. Available globally, the tapioca-based starches will make their debut at the 2016 Institute of Food Technologists Food Expo on 16 July in Chicago, Ill. at booth #1248.

Attendees will experience CLARIA Delight on a 'clean-label' sweet street taco in a honey chipotle sauce. This booth bite will demonstrate how CLARIA Delight can help manufacturers formulate products with cleaner labels while maintaining the taste, texture, colour and performance that their consumers and R&D teams expect.

Consumers are also willing to pay more for products that make 'clean-label' claims. For example, in North America and Europe, 'clean-label' soups, sauces and yoghurt are most likely to carry a price premium (as much as 22%). Globally, the largest price premium for 'clean labels' is in the yoghurt category, at 19% above the category average.

CLARIA Delight helps manufacturers meet this consumer demand because it is suitable for use in products that make a variety of trending 'clean-label' claims including 'non-GM.' The world's fastest-growing 'clean-label' claim, 'non-GM' claims on new product launches have grown an average of 14% per year from 2010 to 2015.

'Depending on their target audience, there is an enormous opportunity for our customers around the world to simplify ingredient lists and take advantage of the trending claims that come along with that,' said Werner Barbosa, Global Platform Leader Texturants, Tate & Lyle.

'Our job is to partner with our customers to help them meet these challenges, and retain their competitive edge locally and globally. With the updated CLARIA line, it's easier than ever to make that a reality.'

It's all about the taste (and texture)

In the starch category, tapioca is particularly trending. In fact, of the top five starches used in clean-label products from 2010 to 2015, tapioca starches saw the fastest growth - a 27% average increase in new product launches (Innova, 2015).

CLARIA Delight delivers the tapioca flavour, colour and texture preferred with manufacturers and consumers in a variety of applications including some soups, sauces, yoghurts, custards, mousse and fruit preps. Its texture is similar to modified tapioca starches, thickening and setting to form a soft, translucent gel that is especially desirable to consumers in applications like yoghurt.

CLARIA Delight also has a clean flavour that is beneficial in delicately-flavoured soups, sauces, and dairy desserts. In addition, it has a clean, white colour that is essential for developing light-coloured products. In fact, CLARIA Delight has been shown in internal sensory testing to have a lighter colour and cleaner taste than other functional 'clean-label' tapioca-based starches on the market.

Innovative technology enables high performance

In addition to its excellent sensory attributes, CLARIA Delight enables manufacturers to develop products with functionality similar to modified tapioca starches. While native tapioca starches break apart under heat and shear, Tate & Lyle's proprietary processing technique enables CLARIA Delight granules to stay intact after cooking under a range of conditions.

In addition, the viscosity of CLARIA Delight is versatile and can be tailored to a variety of applications, with a range comparable to modified starches. In fact, according to customer feedback, CLARIA Delight can be used as a one-for-one replacement for modified tapioca starches while other functional 'clean-label' tapioca starches must be used at higher concentrations to provide comparable thickening.

In addition to CLARIA Delight, the CLARIA line features three corn-based, 'clean-label' functional starches including CLARIA Essential, CLARIA Plus and CLARIA Elite. Launched globally in October 2014, these starches leverage the same technology as CLARIA Delight - enabling functionality and sensory attributes similar to modified starches while allowing for simpler ingredient lists.

About Tate & Lyle:
Tate & Lyle is a global provider of ingredients and solutions to the food, beverage and other industries, with operations in over 30 locations worldwide.

Tate & Lyle operates through two global divisions, Speciality Food Ingredients and Bulk Ingredients, supported by our Innovation and Commercial Development and Global Operations groups. The Group's strategy is to become a leading global provider of Speciality Food Ingredients through a disciplined focus on growth, and by driving Bulk Ingredients for sustained cash generation to fuel this growth.

Speciality Food Ingredients consists of three platforms: Texturants, which includes speciality starches and stabilisers; Sweeteners, which comprises nutritive sweeteners and our range of no-calorie sweeteners including SPLENDA Sucralose; and our Health and Wellness portfolio which includes speciality fibres and our salt-reduction offering. Additionally, our Food Systems business provides a wide variety of blended ingredient solutions.

Tate & Lyle Bulk Ingredients includes bulk sweeteners, industrial starches and fermentation products (primarily acidulants). Corn co-products from both divisions are primarily sold as animal feed.

Tate & Lyle is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TATE.L. American Depositary Receipts trade under TATYY. In the year to 31 March 2016, Tate & Lyle sales totalled £2.4 billion. For more information, please visit http://www.tateandlyle.com

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