Dole Specialty Ingredients: Green banana powder and pineapple powder
Dole Specialty Ingredients, a b2b business unit in Dole specializing in the supply of high value natural ingredients for food & beverage, nutraceuticals and cosmetics, highlighted a series of upcycled ingredients at IFT FIRST.
These included nutrient-dense pineapple fiber powder from byproducts of juicing, which can be used to add fiber, texture/body, nutrition and flavor to everything from fruit smoothies, sauces, energy bars and extruded snacks to infant and toddler foods and potentially clean up labels (if they are replacing gums or hydrocolloids for mouthfeel, for example).
The second ingredient on show from DSI was green banana powder, which can be used in bakery, snacks and plant-based beverages, although its ‘resistant starch’ credentials (and associated prebiotic claims) would be compromised by applications involving high heat, said James Bickmore-Hutt, culinary R&D manager, pictured left.
“If you expose it to high heat it would convert from RS2 to RS3, but if you combine it with other ingredients you can encapsulate it and protect it from heat in some applications, plus it also depends on how much water you're adding into the formulation.”
Image credit: Elaine Watson
