Tate & Lyle Unveils Core Offering At IFT

London - Tate & Lyle, a world leader in renewable ingredients, has developed a range of services that bring real competitive advantage to food and beverage customers through enhanced consumer focus and a unique ingredient offering.

Developed over the last twelve months, Tate & Lyle is bringing four new trademarked services to market: Tate & Lyle Create, Tate & Lyle Optimize, Tate & Lyle Rebalance and Tate & Lyle Enrich.

Tate & Lyle has developed a series of Solution Sets, targeted to support each service, which combine a range of ingredients into a single solution developed for specific market segments. Each solution delivers on specific functional, nutritional, taste or cost targets.

By combining consumer insight with an innovative product offering, Tate & Lyle has been able to bring efficiencies to producers by matching consumer wants and, in some cases, facilitating cost reduction through ingredient substitution.

Known collectively under the acronym CORE, these services reflect an up- scaled consumer focus that has also seen the implementation of research into eating habits, health and lifestyle across Europe and the US, and an enhanced sensory testing program to demonstrate how our prototypes containing our new Solutions compare to commercially available brands.

• Tate & Lyle Create delivers innovation in shape, structure, taste and texture -- helping manufacturers create innovative and exciting new products
• Tate & Lyle Optimize enables manufacturers to deliver cost savings through ingredient and process efficiencies without compromising on taste
• Tate & Lyle Rebalance reformulates existing products to meet lower fat, lower sugar, lower calorie, lower carb or higher fiber positions while delivering a great taste
• Tate & Lyle Enrich enhances the nutrition of brands through fortification without compromising on taste

"Our continued investment in consumer focused research, new ingredient R&D and sensory testing ensures that we are able to help our customers anticipate changes in the marketplace rather than react to them," said Bob Schanefelt, Global Vice President, R&D. "In FY 2005, our Research & Development headcount increased by 17 percent and we are continuing to increase Research & Development investment through FY2006."

At IFT, Tate & Lyle will be profiling three Tate & Lyle Rebalance Solutions: Carb Optimizer 25 Chocolate Dairy Drink Ingredients, Beverage Rebalance 601 Flavored Water Ingredients and Rebalance System 50 Cracker Ingredients. Tate & Lyle will also introduce Alleggra Egg Product, a new soy-based technology that replaces eggs in a wide range of foods, and a fortified water prototype.

Tate & Lyle's R&D team has successfully developed a prototype of a whole grain cracker with Rebalance System 50 using traditional sheeted cracker technology. Rebalance System 50 provides appropriate dough machining properties and contributes a light and crispy texture in the presence of higher dietary fiber and protein. Additionally, Rebalance System 50 enhances flavor in whole grain cracker formulas by providing mild sweetness.

SOURCE: Tate & Lyle