Carob Powders

Carob powder is powder from the dried and sometimes roasted pods of the carob tree. It is mainly used as an ingredient in syrups, cakes and cookies to add flavour and colour, and can be used as a (partial) cocoa powder replacer.

Colours

Colours are an important part of food products. The attractiveness of a product can be hugely improved by using either natural or synthetic colours. Especially the implementation of natural colours can provide several challenges to overcome for food producers. Acatris can help you every step of the way, due to our extensive experience in this field of expertise, combined with the knowledge of our key suppliers.

Dairy Starter Cultures

Starter cultures are micro organisms, that ferment a product and lead to the desired taste or structure. They are used in production of fermented milk products like cheese, butter, and yoghurts.

Emulsifiers

Emulsifiers are among the most frequently used types of food additives. They are used to make an emulsion: a mixture of oil and water (e.g. mayonnaise), which would separate in these two phases when the emulsifier would not be added. There are two types of emulsions. An oil-in-water emulsion contains small droplets of oil that are dispersed in water. Alternatively, a water-in-oil emulsion has small droplets of water that are dispersed in an oil. Acatris can provide the most common types of emulsifiers available for use in food systems.

Fat Powders

Acatris supplies several types of powdered fat products, such as creamers, milk fat replacers, foamers, toppings and regular milk or vegetable fat powders with a fat content up to 80%.

Flavours and Extracts

Flavours are a crucial part of every end product. A flavour can be subtally used to enhance or mask an off-flavour, but can also perform a very dominant role and almost solely determine the taste experience of a product.

Acatris represents Symrise AG in the Netherlands. Symrise is one of the worlds leading flavour producers, but offers the food industry more than just flavours. They also deliver concepts, ideas and complete solutions, and supply innovative products that provide the market with new impulses and help the industry to tap into the full potential of its brands and products.

Fruits, Grains and Vegetables

Acatris offers several different types of fruit and vegetables, ranging from paste to dried products.

Malt products

Malt products are an important ingredient in the bakery industry, where they are used to give extra colour and flavour to breads, or as decorative pieces. Malt products are available in different sizes and colours which vary from slightly brownish to almost black.

Meat and Fish Bouillons, Stocks and Extracts

Meat and Fish bouillons are produced by soft extraction, a method which is not frequently used in Europe but essential to preserve a pure and natural taste. Our producers are experts in extracting the purest flavoured first bouillon from the best meats, bones and vegetables. After extraction, the first bouillon is slowly reduced to a honey-like consistency. Using this extraction and reduction process, we able to produce bouillons, sauce bases to the standards of top-class chefs on an industrial scale.

Sweeteners

A sweetener is used to sweeten food. There are two main categories of sweeteners: 

• Intensive sweeteners; ingredients which have a higher sweetening power than sugar, for example Steviol Glycosides (Stevia Extract) which is about 300 times more sweet than sugar. 

• Bulk sweeteners; sweeteners with a sweetening power less intensive than sugar, for example erythritol which has about 70% of the sweetening power of sucrose. 

In practice usually a combination of bulk- and intensive sweeteners is used to replace sugar, because sugar content is important for many other product properties besides only the taste. Water activity or freeze point depression for example are strongly dependant on sugar content.