Premixes
Micronutrient Premix
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Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) significantly impact eating patterns and public health. Generally, FMCGs are an important contributor to the global food distribution system, and they provide the potential for large scale nutritional improvement. At Food Research Lab, we focus on advancing FMCG fortification, creating pre-model, scientifically formulated micronutrient premix for convenient application for food and beverage items. Our solutions are designed to solve micronutrient deficiencies, which allow manufacturers across all demographic segments to produce fortified food products that lead to better health.
Staple Premix
The Food Research Lab produces custom staple premixes that are fortified with key micronutrients, aimed at ameliorating nutrient deficiency and improving health at a population level. These nutritionally and scientifically formulated staple premixes are designed to fortify the essential staples like wheat, rice, and maize flour with vitamins and minerals that fill nutrient gaps in daily diets.
Fortified Rice Kernels
The Food Research Lab utilizes state of the art warm extrusion technology to produce Fortified Rice Kernels with improved micronutrient stability and shelf life, allowing multiple storage conditions. The FRK was fortified using white ferric pyrophosphate as the iron source. The FRK formulations were also designed to provide minimal color change, ensuring high acceptance from the end consumer. The FRK formulations have been analysed to demonstrate the nutrients are retained after cooking, demonstrating their effectiveness for large-scale fortification projects across the globe.
The Food Research Lab improves flour function through enzyme and micronutrient fortifications. Our tailored enzyme blends are made in a way to improve dough extensibility, shelf life, and nutritional value, in varying applications including bakery, beverage, and dairy. They were developed to meet targeted health needs such as clean label, functional food development, and metabolic health support. Each of the solutions developed were fully tested to confirm compliance with regulation and changing consumer needs.
Food Research Lab delivers scientifically backed animal nutrition products with species specific feed premixes that will contain vitamins, trace minerals and amino acids that improve the health, immunity and productivity of poultry, livestock, pets and aquaculture. FRL promotes sustainability and which reflects our commitment to all dimensions of animal performance and sustainability, in line with international quality and safety standards, through optimizing the feed matrix, carefully balancing nutrient allocations to a functional and nutritious diet suitable for all livestock systems.
Food Research Lab provides support for FMCG manufacturers looking to develop fortified food and beverage products that are current with nutrition status and fortified food regimentation. Through our unique micronutrient premix technology, we can develop functional food products such as fortified snacks, dairy products and beverages. FRL designs our solutions with scalability, price, integrity and sensory characteristics in mind to help brands achieve their health food innovations based on consumer expectations and the demand of the global market
Wheat, as one of the most consumed cereal grains around the world, is used as an ingredient in food forms such as bread, biscuits, pasta, cakes, wafers, and extruded foods like noodles. At FRL, we focus on fortifying wheat flour to address hidden hunger by enhancing its micronutrient profile. While ensuring caloric requirements are met, this approach aims to maximize positive nutrition for the population.
Maize has the greatest centralization for milling on a global basis; therefore, one option for fortification and nutritional intervention is maize flour. FRL focuses on fortifying maize almost as a packaged flour premix product with stable micronutrients; made with high stability, low room temperature storage, and effectiveness to ensure fortified micronutrient maize flour is impactful to alleviate micronutrient deficiencies in many areas.
Milk is often referred to as the most complete food, because it provides a range of nutrients, including fat-soluble vitamins and calcium. Even so, high-temperature processing can eliminate a significant amount of nutrients. Here at FRL, we meet the challenge of milk nutrition loss by fortifying milk and milk powders with vitamins A and D to deliver fortified dairy products as liquids and powders, to upgrade nutrition and dietary improvement.
FRL specializes in edible oil fortification solutions aimed at addressing widespread micronutrient deficiencies. We fortify edible oils with vitamins A, D, and E while also including other essential micronutrients to improve the nutritional quality of soybean, palm olein, groundnut, cottonseed, and mustard oils. These fortified oils are important for improving dietary deficiency of critical vitamins and minerals.
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