Food Emulsifiers IFF Solutions for Food Production

Emulsifiers: Nature’s Food Magic

IFF’s emulsifier solutions unlock the potential for large-scale food production, making it both affordable and efficient to create delicious dishes that capture the essence of homemade texture and flavor.

*Source: Packaged foods, Mintel GNPD

In 2023

35% of new Dessert & Ice Cream products launched in North America contained at least one emulsifier produced by IFF.*
22%

for Bakery products and more than 15% for Chocolate confectionary.*

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The Value of Emulsifiers

Emulsifiers enhance product stability and flavor, providing essential value that not only attracts consumers but also fosters loyalty and trust, ultimately securing and expanding market share.

A Versatile Emulsifier Range

Core Emulsifiers

Anywhere around the world, IFF stands as your ideal partner with the industry’s most extensive portfolio of Core Emulsifiers and a robust global industrial and technical presence.

Lecithin

We proudly offer a label-friendly, multipurpose lineup featuring our naturally derived emulsifier, Lecithin, which perfectly complements our extensive Core Emulsifier portfolio.

Emulsifier Applications

Beverage

IFF’s lecithins and emulsifiers, featuring DIMODAN®, are crucial for beverage applications, delivering the right blend of performance and appeal.

By stabilizing emulsions and enabling the instantization of powdered health beverages, our solutions ensure market success while quenching the evolving demands of consumers.

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Culinary

In culinary applications, whether you’re instantizing noodles or saucing up gravies, IFF’s solutions—including DIMODAN® and GRINDSTED® MONO-DI—stabilize emulsions and improve overall product quality in soups and sauces.

Our expertise and high-quality ingredients increase machinability and process efficiency, supporting your efforts to meet standards and strengthen your brand reputation.

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Dairy

In the world of dairy products, emulsifiers play a vital role in delivering quality across creams and creamers, as well as frozen desserts.

For creams and creamers, solutions like GRINDSTED® LACTEM and GRINDSTED® ACETEM help stabilize aerated structures. In frozen desserts, GRINDSTED® MONO-DI and CREMODAN® stabilize emulsions and aerated structures, ensuring products maintain their integrity and provide the perfect mouthfeel.

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Bars & Confectionery

When it comes to chewing gum, emulsifiers are essential for stabilizing emulsions and supporting the softness and machinability of gum bases.

With solutions like DIMODAN®, GRINDSTED® MONO-DI, and GRINDSTED® ACETEM, you can achieve a smooth texture and seamless processing, elevating your product to new heights.

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Bakery

Success in the bakery begins with mastering dough strength and achieving that perfect crumb softness.

With solutions like DIMODAN®, GRINDSTED® DATEM, and PANODAN®, you can tackle variations in raw material quality, ensuring your bread consistently rises to the occasion.

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Margarines, Fillings & Spreads

Elevate your margarines, fillings, and spreads with our cutting-edge solutions. DIMODAN® and GRINDSTED® STS/SMS stabilize emulsions, support fat reduction, and reduce spattering, ensuring every bite is filled with quality.

Pet Nutrition

Achieve uniform expansion and optimal starch gelatinization in pet nutrition with DIMODAN®. Boost machinability and process efficiency, ensuring your products are doggone delightful for every furry friend.

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Polymer

Discover our efficient, safe, and sustainable portfolio of food packaging additives and bio-based plasticizers sourced from plants. As the industry-leading food-grade glycerol esters, IFF has years of expertise in serving customers through scientific excellence and sustainable innovations.

The extensive range of food emulsifiers under the well-known DIMODAN® and GRINDSTED® brands, is crafted to offer antifouling, antistatic/mold release, antifogging, pigment dispersion, and coating benefits. GRINDSTED® SOFT-N-SAFE™ surpasses traditional solutions, being bio-based plasticizers, with a superior technical profile, user-friendliness, and an outstanding safety & sustainability record.

IFF Emulsifiers Sustainable Journey

At IFF, we tackle today’s customer needs and future societal and environmental challenges through a variety of initiatives, including third-party reviewed Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) for nine emulsifiers. This commitment to sustainability, and more, highlights our dedication to informed decision-making for a more sustainable future.

Sustainable Partnerships

As a pioneering member of RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) and a long-standing supporter of RTRS (Roundtable on Responsible Soy), IFF is committed to sustainable sourcing that uplifts communities and ecosystems alike.

Our values extend to our suppliers through SEDEX (Supplier Ethical Data Exchange), and we actively contribute to the MARIPOSA project, empowering smallholders in Latin America to become sustainable entrepreneurs.

Ethical Manufacturing

IFF’s emulsifier manufacturing sites not only hold ISO 14001:2015 certification and are SEDEX registered, but they have also successfully completed four comprehensive SMETA audits covering labor practices, health and safety, business ethics, and environmental management.

This commitment to sustainability and ethical standards ensures that our operations uphold the highest values for people and the planet.

Meet Our Experts

Emulsifiers with their multifaceted functionalities are nothing short of wonder molecules!

Kaustuv Bhattacharya,
Principal Designer, Creation/Application Oils & fats, Brabrand, DK
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Kaustuv Bhattacharya
Principal Designer, Creation/Application Oils & fats, Brabrand, DK
Emulsifiers with their multifaceted functionalities are nothing short of wonder molecules! They induce emulsion stability by reduction of interfacial tension, droplet subdivision and impart structure by modifying kinetics of fat crystallization, Pickering stabilization and foam stabilization. Hence for decades emulsifiers have been true and trusted friends of any food designer.

It’s difficult to overestimate the importance of emulsifiers for bakery.

Valentina Polodyuk,
Senior designer, Creation/Application Bakery, Brabrand DK
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Valentina Polodyuk
Senior designer, Creation/Application Bakery, Brabrand DK
It’s difficult to overestimate the importance of emulsifiers for bakery. It is not just about emulsification; it is about interaction with gluten and starch and ability to strength the dough and prolong the crumb softness in bread as well as possibility to decrease fat and egg in fine bakery products. PANODAN®, DIMODAN®, and GINDSTED® are very well-known brands in the bakery industry for decades, providing our customers with reliable solutions to stabilize production processes and produce high-quality baked goods.

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