Culinary

Cultures offer a variety of benefits, from reducing cost-to-make and imparting desired textures and flavors to reducing food waste. Some cultures even promote improved digestive and immune health. IFF has one of the most extensive collections of cultures in the world.

The IFF range of tailored ingredient systems leverages integrated technologies to help manufacturers accelerate their business to the next level. We combine the functional properties of diverse ingredients to help customers strengthen product performance and quality, optimize time to market, reduce formulation costs, and streamline supply chain and inventory management.

IFF provides a full suite of sweeteners that deliver the same delicious food experience as sugar, but with fewer or no calories. Based on a long heritage in the sweetener industry, our sweeteners are sourced from plants and embody a healthy, natural and sustainable range of complementary sugar alternatives suitable for many food and non–food applications.

Leveraging a long history of innovation leadership, experience, and expertise in soy protein to transform the broader plant protein category through plant-based protein and fortification. Our protein solutions deliver great-tasting food and beverage products in a range of formats.

The array of high-quality hydrocolloids and cellulosics in the IFF range offers food producers flexibility in creating products with the texture and mouthfeel consumers want. With a complete portfolio, it includes Biopolymers, Cellulosics and Natural polysaccharides

IFF Natural Colors create customized, accessible, and sustainable  natural color solutions, with a toolbox to choose the most suitable source, technology, and protection to meet desired goals. With our in-depth understanding of the food and beverage matrix, we propose colors to fit all purposes. Our colors provide the first moment of truth, as consumers purchase and eat with their eyes.

IFF’s comprehensive portfolio of effective label-friendly shelf-life extenders that address microbial spoilage (antimicrobials, fermentates & blends) and oxidative degradation (natural, synergistic and traditional oxidation control solutions), helping food and beverage manufacturers foster consumer loyalty. Country-specific regulations apply.

IFF is a flavor powerhouse with 130-year heritage, delivering consumer-driven, technology-enabled Taste Designs. Our flavors are executions of art and science, crafted with technical know-how and flavorist creativity to drive product uniqueness and trigger emotion, memory, and imagination. How a product tastes is one of the biggest determinants of consumer preference. Flavors and seasonings are customized according to your needs and embedded with technologies from our Re-Imagine Innovation Programs (e.g., modulation of sweet/salt, increased intensity, and masking off-notes for alternative proteins).

IFF enzymes help food producers address the need for tastier, healthier, and label-friendly products. Additionally, enzymes allow our customers to optimize production, maximize yield, and produce more sustainably; for example, by reducing water consumption or minimizing product waste.

Helping to bind the ingredient matrix or improve processing, our emulsifiers and lecithins are sourced from vegetable oils and are used in a wide range of areas from bakery, confectionery, margarines and spreads to dairy and culinary. Whether you’re looking to improve quality, enhance nutrition, cut costs, or get more out of your product line, our signature emulsifiers and lecithins can help.