Etenia™

What is Etenia™?

Etenia™ is an E-number free enzymatically treated potato starch and can be declared starch in Europe and maltodextrin in the rest of the world. Etenia™ offers a new way of texturizing, gelling and thickening products. It creates delicious guilt-free indulgent products and enables major cost-savings in fresh cheese, cream cheese, quark and strained yoghurt.

How does Etenia™ work?

During processing dairy, bakery and confectionary products or emulsified low fat spreads, Etenia™ can easily be added to the process. Therefore, it’s easy to use. Besides, it has thermoreversible characteristics, is vegetarian, Kosher and Halal.

Key features of Etenia:

• Creaminess enhancement
• Mouthfeel/fat replacement
• Vegetarian
• Kosher and Halal
• Dosage levels advantages
• Hydrocolloid like characteristics
• Unique thermoreversible characteristics
• Excellent ‘melt-in-the-mouth’ characteristics
• Ease of use/processability
• Sustainable and stable supply
• Consistency of supply and quality

Potato starch application examples:

• Dairy: Reducing fat, retaining taste, stabilizing shelf life and syneresis reduction of fresh cheese. Enhancing creaminess and reducing fat in ice cream. Enhancing creaminess and texturizing in fat-free, low- and high fat yoghurts.
• Confectionary: Chewable and textured fruit chews. Vegetarian, low sugar and low cost gums and jellies.
• Bakery goods: Cake mixes, doughs.
• Emulsified low fat spreads