COSUCRA Groupe Warcoing - Chicory and Pea Ingredients, Natural Healthy Eating Solutions

COSUCRA Groupe Warcoing is a Belgian group which develops, produces and promotes natural ingredients from chicory and yellow peas. The product range includes:

• Fibruline® chicory inulin
• Fibrulose® chicory oligofructose
• Pisane® pea protein isolate
• Swelite® pea fibre
• Exafine® pea hull fibre
• Nastar® native pea starch

COSUCRA also provides nutrition and health-related services concerning calorie reduction, weight control, fibre enrichment, protein enrichment, gut health and bone health.

NUTRITION AND HEALTH-PROMOTING INGREDIENTS FOR YOUR NEEDS

For every stage of our life, our needs and concerns are different. Nutrition and health- promoting ingredients, such as inulin and pea protein, can improve the nutritional profile of food to fit to the needs and food habits of every ages.

Calorie reduction and weight control, fibre enrichment, gut health with prebiotics, bone health, and general well-being are the main solutions. They all require a different approach.

CHICORY INGREDIENTS RANGE

Chicory ingredients are extracted from the chicory root in a natural way, using only environmentally friendly processes in order to ensure safe and natural ingredients.

The extracted soluble fibres are tasteless, odourless and have a white colour. Chicory inulin and oligofructose are constituted of chains of fructose units, either with or without a glucose unit at the end.

Fibruline Instant, a chicory inulin, provides:

• Sugar reduction
• Fat mimetic effect
• Restoration of mouthfeel
• Minimum 90% dietary fibre
• Only 1.2kcal/g
• Minimum 10% solubility

Chicory inulin Fibruline XL ensures:

• Fat replacement
• Fat mimetic effect
• Restoration of texture properties
• 99% dietary fibre
• Only 0.5% free sugars
• Only 1kcal/g

Fibrulose F97, a chicory oligofructose, ensures:

• Sugar reduction
• Low water activity
• No effect on texture
• 97% dietary fibre
• Only 3% free sugars
• Only 1.1kcal/g
• Minimum 35% solubility

PEA INGREDIENTS RANGE

Pea ingredients are processed from the yellow pea by gentle physical processes, such as dehulling, milling, sieving, decantation and pasteurisation, followed by concentration and drying steps. All ingredients are clean label (GMO free, gluten free and not on the EU list of allergens).

Pea protein Pisane provides:

• Water and fat binding by emulsification
• Texture improvement
• Protein enrichment
• 90% protein

Swelite, a pea fibre, provides:

• Water binding (one part for eight parts of water)
• Water and fat binding by absorption
• Texture improvement
• Yield improvement

Exafine, a pea hull fibre, ensures:

• Water binding (one part for three to four parts of water)
• Fibre enrichment
• Texture improvement

Pea starch Nastar provides:

• Water binding
• Texture improvement

NUTRITION AND HEALTH-PROMOTING RECIPES

Thanks to its nutritional, technical, marketing and regulatory services, Cosucra can support your developments from idea to launch. The added value is the unique way of combining your expertise with Cosucra's.

Cosucra's ingredient and application know-how results in more than 500 nutrition and health improving recipes, the result of 20 years of in-house developments, and 10 years of clinical research involving healthy ingredients.

TARGETED INDUSTRIES

Due to the easy incorporation of inulin and oligofructose into food, chicory ingredients are incorporated in most food products ranging from dairy, bakery, confectionery, beverages, savoury products and dietetic food, while keeping the great taste and texture profile of the food.

Pea ingredients are used for protein-rich foods, savoury products and food requiring natural ingredients. On top of this, Pisane, our pea protein, contains particular amino acids (arginine, lysine and branched amino acids) which makes pea protein an ideal ingredient for dietetic foods such as weight control food and sports food.

For every sector application models have been developed for new product development, within a technical, marketing, nutritional and legal framework.

Cosucra's specialised sales network provides healthy food solutions in more than 40 countries worldwide to all food industries.