GOS as a trending prebiotic fiber
13 Aug 2018 | FrieslandCampina
FrieslandCampina Ingredients highlighted the recent FDA opinion on dietary fibers, from which they could benefit them as a GOS (Galacto-Oligosaccharides) supplier. A prebiotic peach and apple white tea concept was presented, while high protein cookies with a chocolate hazelnut dip were also on display. Sarah Staley of FrieslandCampina spoke about GOS as a trending prebiotic fiber. “There is a lot of interest in clean, green and label-friendly ingredients and fiber is one that they are looking for, but in good tasting applications. This really means a lot more flexibility for formulators to offer something that has both prebiotic and fiber benefits,” she notes.
This is Rob Wires of the IFT Food Expo in Chicago, and I'm here with Sarah Staley from Fries and Capina, and Fries and Camppina is highlighting their galacto leosaccharides as prebiotics.
Sarah, very interesting recent news from the FDA who gave a kind of a fiber classification.
Can you give us a bit of the background to that and what it means also for in terms of companies, how they might promote galacto leosaccharides in their products?
Sure, so it's quite interesting.
Because the FDA had really not updated its fiber definitions for quite some time and it was a very limited range of ingredients that could be promoted as fibers.
And so they have recently added a number of different fiber sources as approved sources here in the US, which is fantastic for food applications, especially with the upcoming label changes that you're seeing as.
So there's a lot of interest in very clean and green and very label friendly.
Ingredients and fiber is one of those ones that people are looking for, but they want it in really good tasting type applications.
So really this means that there's a lot more flexibility for formulators to put something that has both a prebiotic benefit, but also a fiber benefit into their products.
And for example, on beverages is a classic example of that.
It's been a more difficult product to put fiber into.
A lot of the fiber sources might be insoluble or they lack greasiness, and this is, this is a great product.
It's available in a syrup format or also a powder format.
And it's a clear syrup, so you can add it directly into a beverage.
It's very heat and acid stable, so you can put it into just about any beverage you want or into any sort of processing and it'll be very, very stable.
It tastes great.
What are some of the other application areas for, for goss?
Typical applications are areas like nutrition bars.
It's been used quite a lot in infant nutrition in the past.
And , I think also some.
Supplements, etc.
You see these products used in as.
So any sort of food that could basically utilize a fiber claim, that's really where this will work very because what might be the type of fiber claim that a company might adopt on their products?
How, how might they market this?
So normally people are trying to say either a good or an excellent source of fiber.
So they're trying to have an FDA approved nutrient content claim.
And in this situation, having 5 g of fiber per serving, then you're really able to put something strong on the label with regards to pointing it out on the label to consumers that this is a good or an excellent source of fiber.
So this is something really to look out for in terms of new product development, maybe something going forward.
Yeah.
So I think, you know, people, as I said, it's been quite difficult.
Sometimes put fiber in various applications and now you have a lot of capability to look at many different applications where you don't have to worry about how it's going to process or how stable it's going to be or how it's going to affect the taste of your products.
It's not terribly sweet, but it adds a little sweetness.
So if you want to also reduce sugar, that's a good thing.
So yeah, Sarah, thank you very much.
You're very welcome.
