Clean label is not just a passing trend. It’s an underlying demand from consumers wanting to live healthier and more eco-conscious lives.
With IFF’s diverse range of label-friendly solutions, we offer the benefits of clean-label product positioning that consumers are looking for, leveraging lean and simple ingredient lists that include naturally derived, sustainably sourced ingredients.
This helps ensure consumers receive transparency with, and trust in, the final product.
Cleaning up food and beverage recipes by removing artificial additives and preservatives, maintaining great taste and texture and preserving freshness throughout shelf life — all while meeting different countries’ regulations — can create a major challenge.
Leveraging IFF’s Product Design™ and regulatory expertise with our label-friendly* portfolio, we can help you create delicious, healthy, compliant, and sustainable clean-label products.
Our range of label-friendly solutions includes:
Flavors, modulators, cultures, food enzymes, antimicrobials and fermentates, probiotics, plant extracts, fruit inclusions, texturizing ingredients, system blends and plant proteins.
* “Label-friendly” as a term may have different meanings; generally it refers to short, familiar ingredient lists, free from artificial additives and preservatives, products that are minimally processed and with health-conscious and sustainable ingredients.
As consumers increasingly scrutinize highly processed foods, many are seeking “back to basics,” additive-free recipes with short, recognizable, and simple ingredient declarations.
The challenge is: how do we maintain great taste and texture with fewer ingredients?
Sources: International Food Information Council. June 2021, Innova, Global Trends in Clean Label, 2023
A good example is our YO-MIX® PRIME range, a label-friendly* cultures collection for fresh fermented applications, offering texture robustness, fast acidification, and product freshness.
Thanks to our unique, full-stop pH “PRIME” technology, our YO-MIX® PRIME allows producers to reduce waste, expand distribution reach, reduce the cost to make, and deliver a premium taste experience until the end of shelf life. This toolbox helps to achieve superior production flexibility and ensure product stability in stirred, set, or drinking yogurts.
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67% of global consumers now care more about ingredient sourcing than they did one year ago, and 74% expect companies to be transparent about their raw material sources.
To meet rising consumer expectations for sustainably sourced food and beverages, manufacturers must find the right ingredient partner.
Source: Innova, Global Trends in Clean Label 2023.
IFF’s commitment to sustainable, label-friendly* solutions is anchored in environmentally, ethically, and socially responsible sourcing. We continuously improve the transparency, traceability, and diversity of our supply chain while reducing its environmental impact and supporting the livelihoods of workers and grower communities.
One example is our sustainable vanilla program in Madagascar, which ensures a stable, high-quality vanilla supply while addressing governance, labor rights, and environmental challenges.
The program also provides technical assistance and alternative income opportunities to growers.
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Bring your vision to life with IFF’s expertise in food and beverage innovation. Together, we can turn bold ideas into groundbreaking solutions.