Food Acids and its Derivatives
About Ingredient
Naturally produced through fermentation, lactic acid and its derivatives, play crucial roles in the food industry. Widely used in different applications, as preservatives, acidity regulators, texture improver, ingredients for fortification and flavor enhancers, contributing to the safety, shelf-life stability, over all palatability and improvement of the nutritional quality of various processed foods.
Food Acid serves various functions in food production
- Purac lactic acid and blends with different acids (citric lactic, citric lactic and malic)
- Purac buffered acids
- Purasal sodium and potassium lactate
- Puracal mineral lactates (calcium, gluconate, zinc and magnesium)
- Optiform sodium/potassium lactate with sodium acetate/sodium di-acetate
- Verdad clean label solutions (alternative to calcium propionate, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, nitrite, phosphate)
- Origin Powder natural anti-oxidant (rosemary)
- Puraqarome natural flavor enhancer/booster
Applications
Bakery
- Biscuit
- Bread (bagel, loaf bread/bread roll, bun, flatbread, muffin)
- Gluten free bread
- Brownie
- Cakes and cupcakes
- Eggless or reduced egg cupcakes
- Cookie
- Cracker and Gluten Free
- Cracker
- Pastry
- Tart
- Viennoiseries (croissant, baguettes, brioche, etc)
- Glaze
- Bakery filling
- Mochi
- Pita
- Soft taco
Beverage
- Powdered beverage mix: 3-in-1 coffee
- 3-in-1 chocolate
- milk tea
- Powdered fruit & fruit flavored drinks
- Powdered milk drink
- Powdered energy/sports drink
- Instant powdered coffee
- choco and tea
- instant milk drink
- instant cereal mix
- Ready to drink beverage: coffee
- chocolate
- tea
- Ready to drink fruit & fruit
- flavored drinks
- Ready to drink energy/sports drink
- Acidified milk
- Drinkable yogurt
- Fortified water
- Flavored water
Batters
- Dry breading mix (chicken breading)
- Wet batter (tempura, chicken/pork/veg)
- Batter coating for frozen pies
Processed Cheese
- Analog cheese
- Cheese spread
- Melting cheese
- Cheese sauce
Confectionery
- Hard boiled candies
- Sour candies (acid sanded)
- Soft chewy candies
- Fruit Leathers
- Marshmallow
- Candy center fills
- Pastillas
- Chocolates
Mayonnaise and All Purpose Dressing
- Mayonnaise
- Vinaigrette
- Cold process dressing (with and without egg)
- Cooked up dressing (with and without egg)
Preserves and Desserts
- Fruit preserves (jams, fruit spreads)
- Pickled fruits/vegetable
- Kimchi
- Spoonable yogurt
Ice Cream
- Commercial ice cream
- Soft serve ice cream
- Popsicles
- Ice cream ripple
Noodles and Seasonings
- Shelf stable noodle (miki, Lomi, udon)
- Instant noodles
- Seasonings
Processed Meat Products
- Hotdog
- Sausages
- Ham
- Bacon
- Lechon (manok, baboy, baka)
- Tocino
- Longanisa
- Value added products (ground meat, bbq, meat filling, embutido)
- Dimsum (siomai, hakaw, polonchai etc)
- Nuggets
- Chicken fingers
Clean Label Processed Meat & Plant Based Meat
- Hotdog
- Sausages
- Ham
- Bacon
- Lechon (manok, baboy, baka)
- Tocino
- Longanisa
- Value added products (ground meat, bbq, meat filling, embutido)
- Dimsum (siomai, hakaw, polonchai etc)
- Nuggets
- Chicken fingers
Processed Fish Products
- Seafood balls (fishballs, squidballs, shrimpballs)
- Fish cake/fish nuggets
- Marinated fresh fish
- Smoked fish
Soup, Sauces, Seasonings, and Condiments
- Catsup
- Tomato sauce
- Chili sauce
- Sweet chili sauce
- Oyster sauce
- Lechon sauce
- Gravy
- Carbonara sauce
- Alfredo sauce
- Canned & Powdered Cream Soup
- Soy sauce
- Fish sauce
- Vinegar
Syrup
- Syrups
- High solid formula
Others
- Butter and Margarine
- Shelf Stable Bubble Tea Pearl (mochi concept)
- Fresh Meat
- Enhanced Meat Concepts
- Fresh Seafoods
- Water-based spray-dried flavor (e.g calamansi)
- Fries and Nachos