Enzymes for Food and Beverages | IFF Solutions and Innovations

Exploring the Wonders of Enzymes

Unlock the transformative power of enzymes to elevate the quality, taste, and nutritional value of food and beverages. Our enzymes are working tirelessly to optimize processes, boost sustainability, and minimize waste.

Enzyme Solutions

LEVERAGE MARKET TRENDS

At IFF, we understand that manufacturers are innovating to meet consumer demands for wellness, convenience, and ethical practices, and with our on-point innovations aligned with these trends, you can capture greater market share by offering environmentally conscious and label-friendly products.

We do this by:

Satisfying consumer demand for label-friendly* products
Improving sustainability credentials
Focusing on better-for-you nutritional profiles including reducing sugar and lactose, low or no alcohol, and higher protein content
Allowing for consumer convenience through geographical expansion and addressing the challenges that arise in stability and shelf-life.

ADDRESS INDUSTRY CHALLENGES

While driving revenue is crucial, managing costs effectively is just as important. At IFF, we help our customers increase productivity by reducing cost-to-make and waste, securing a reliable supply of ingredients adapted to their production processes, and optimizing every step of the production chain to minimize unsold returns and overcome production challenges.

We do this by:

Managing raw material price, availability, and quality fluctuations, as well as using them efficiently, and adding flexibility on raw material choices

Ensuring versatility and consistency in production

Increasing production yield, production time, capacity release and reducing bottlenecks

Reducing water and energy consumption

Optimizing production costs, reducing production losses and returns, and their environmental and financial impacts

Facilitating the valorization of waste streams

PRESERVE BRAND AUTHENTICITY

Brand authenticity is key to building consumer trust, ensuring your product remains consistent, honest, and aligned with their values.

At IFF, we help our customers maintain brand consistency and product quality, even when facing production challenges, ensuring that your brand adheres to its positioning and helping to secure repeat purchases.

We do this by:

Aiming to achieve the target viscosity and texture

Maintaining product quality over shelf-life

Improving product quality, including aspects like volume, clarity, mouthfeel, taste, and softness

135 Years of Expertise

Harness the transformative power of different enzymes to refine the quality, taste, and nutritional value of food and beverages. Our enzymes optimize processes, improve sustainability, and minimize waste.

With the expertise of our enzyme and industry specialists, we guide you in applying these benefits across various sectors, including dairy, baking, brewing, beverages, culinary, pet food, and ingredient manufacturing.

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Explore our Enzyme Applications

Bakery

In an industry that never stands still, bakery brands must adapt to current demands and innovate for the future.

IFF’s range of baking enzymes provides sustainable, label-friendly* solutions to enhance flour and bread performance, reduce gluten, boost production efficiency, extend freshness, and deliver exceptional quality and taste.

Key Benefits of Baking Enzymes

Our enzyme solutions satisfy consumer demand for label-friendly products by maintaining and improving product volume and integrity, including softness across shelf life, ensuring versatility and consistency in production, increasing flexibility in raw material choices, reducing waste and environmental impact, and lowering cost-in-use.

Applications: industrial and artisanal bread, wheat flour, cakes, pastries and cookies, and crackers.

*Label-friendly means that the ingredient list is familiar and accepted by consumers. It often means the product may be free from or has fewer e-numbers and chemical additives.

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Freshly baked bread showcasing IFF's bakery solutions.

Brewing

IFF’s brewing solutions are crafted to unlock limitless possibilities, combining our unparalleled expertise in enzymes with a rich portfolio of natural flavorings and taste ingredients. Supported by a global network of experts across various disciplines, we provide the ideal partnership for brewing projects of all kinds, elevating the taste, quality, and innovation in every brew.

Key Benefits of Brewing Enzymes

We believe that when it comes to brewing, anything is possible. Our enzyme solutions optimize raw material usage, reduce water and energy consumption, and enhance sustainability credentials, while increasing brewhouse yield, improving process efficiency and consistency, valorizing waste streams, and providing innovative approaches for producing NOLO and light beers, as well as efficient distilling options.

Applications: beer, no and low-alcohol beer, and spirits.

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Dairy and Plant Based Alternatives

Our enzyme portfolio provides comprehensive solutions that cater to the needs of health-conscious and environmentally aware consumers, ensuring quality, satisfaction, and a sustainable approach to dairy alternatives.

Key Benefits of Dairy and Plant-Based Enzymes

Our enzymes support lactose and sugar reduction, develop and modulate texture and viscosity, flavor development, drive coagulation and aid in cheese ripening.

Applications: fresh fermented, cheese, lactose-free milk, plant-based alternatives and lactose-free and low-sugar ice cream.

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Beverages

At IFF, our range of specialized enzymes helps beverage manufacturers optimize production, enrich nutritional profiles, improve consistency, and streamline processes.

Key Benefits of Beverage Enzymes

For our customers, we provide viscosity management, protein solubilization, sweetness modulation, increased production yield, improved extraction, additional stability, and improved nutritional profiles.

Applications: plant-based beverages, nutritional beverages, juices, sports drinks, and whey protein.

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Culinary

Diving into our specialized enzyme portfolio for co-product valorization and ingredient production allows you to maximize protein extraction yields, optimize resource use, and achieve significant energy savings, all while enhancing ingredient value for culinary applications, delivering unforgettable taste and texture to your dishes.

Key Benefits of Culinary Enzymes

At IFF, our customers benefit from the upcycling and valorization of co-products, improved nutritional profiles, increased extraction and production yields, energy savings, consistent and controlled processes, robust protein solubilization, and precise flavor modulation.

Applications: meat extracts, yeast extracts, sauces, plant-based meat alternatives, fish extracts, and pasta.

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Pet Food

At IFF, our enzyme solutions help pet food producers create tastier, better-for-you, and label-friendly* products for your four-legged friends.

Our enzymes also enable customers to optimize production, maximize yield, and enhance sustainability by reducing water consumption and minimizing product waste.

Key Benefits of Pet Food Enzymes

We help to increase production yield, utilize alternative raw materials, create more mindful and tastier pet foods, offer label-friendly products, improve sustainability credentials, and reduce production waste.

Applications: palatants, fish and meat meals, ingredients, dry pet food.

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Co-products and Ingredients

With IFF’s enzyme solutions, we apply science and creativity to optimize the processing of side-streams, improve efficiency, increase sustainability, and add value through innovative enzyme expertise.

Key Benefits of Co-products and Ingredient Enzymes

Our expertise helps to increase production yield, improve product value, manage raw material variation, enhance sustainability credentials, reduce production waste, control production costs, and extend application potential.

Applications: heparin, chondroitin, collagen peptides, fish and meat meals, and feather hydrolysis.

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Start a Revolution with TEXSTAR™

Discover a better future for dairy and plant-based yogurt with TEXSTAR™. This innovative enzymatic solution marks a new dawn in food texturizing, delivering full texture and premium quality while reducing supply chain risks.
With TEXSTAR™, you can cost-effectively achieve label-friendly products.

ENOVERA™, the next-gen enzyme dough strengthener

Bakers have long struggled to deliver label-friendly* products while maintaining dough strength, consistency, crumb structure, and quality.
ENOVERA™ offers a next-generation enzyme solution that matches the robustness of conventional dough strengtheners, ensuring dough resilience, minimizing waste, and reducing production costs.

BCLEAR™, sustainable beer clarification

At IFF, we aim to catalyze the future of brewing—one that’s more sustainable, efficient, and encourages innovation.
BCLEAR™ is our breakthrough enzymatic solution that stabilizes beer and maintains clarity more effectively and efficiently than current methods.

Enzymes & Sustainability

Brewing Sustainability Calculator

Have you ever wondered about the environmental impact of your brewing recipe?
Our online Brewing Sustainability Calculator, based on life cycle assessments, provides the insights you need to make sustainable changes that deliver both cost savings and environmental benefits.

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Climate Change & Brewing

As climate change impacts regions worldwide, the beer industry has compelling reasons to adopt ambitious sustainability strategies.
Discover the challenges breweries face, the responsible decisions they’re making, and how they can significantly reduce water and energy use in brewing.

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Baking a Difference

Discover how to extend shelf life, reduce waste, and “bake a difference” by learning more about our cutting-edge bakery solutions.
Explore innovative approaches to enhance product quality, ensure consistency, and drive sustainability in every bake, all while meeting consumer demands for freshness and flavor.

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Interested in Learning More About Our Enzymes?

*Label-friendly may have different meanings, in bakery it is mostly common associated to the elimination or reduction of E-numbers and chemicals additives