Danisco - Emulsifiers, Textural Ingredients, Cultures, Flavours, Enzymes, Food Safety Ingredients and Sweeteners

Danisco is the world's leading supplier of food ingredients and one of the largest and most efficient sugar producers in Europe. We are also a significant supplier of speciality sweeteners and a leading global supplier of enzymes, betaine and flavours to the animal nutrition industry. The company develops and produces food ingredients, feed ingredients, sweeteners and pharmaceutical products. Danisco's product range includes:

• Emulsifiers - distilled monoglycerides, esters, mono and diglycerides, BENEFAT®
• Functional systems - integrated emulsifiers and stabilisers, encapsulated ingredients, dry blends of emulsifiers and stablisers
• Textural Ingredients / hydrocolloids - pectin, carrageenan, alginate and locust bean gum
• Cultures - cheese, yoghurt, dairy and meat cultures and probiotic cultures
• Enzymes - carbohydrases, proteases, lipases and oxidative enzymes
• Flavours - fruit, savoury, fragrance raw materials, essences, extracts and oleoresins
• Food safety ingredients - antimicrobials, antioxidants and protective cultures
• Sweeteners - xylitol, Litesse®, fructose, lactitol, D-xylose and rare sugars
• Sugar – for industry, trade and animal feed plus dietary fibre

IMPROVING TASTE, TEXTURE AND APPEARANCE, EXTENDING SHELF LIFE, OPTIMISING FOOD SAFETY AND ENABLING COST-EFFECTIVE PRODUCTION

Just a small amount of one of Danisco's many ingredients goes a long way. A few tenths of a percent are often all it takes to obtain the desired effect in a food or beverage and make the essential difference in the eyes of the consumer.

Improving taste, texture and appearance, extending shelf life, optimising food safety and enabling cost-effective production, our ingredients have many functions. The combination of our extensive expertise with our broad product portfolio enables us to select the best solution for any job - whether bread, ice cream or a savoury sauce - not to mention provide the most comprehensive service.

Danisco is a company built on knowledge. This is the foundation on which we base value-adding solutions for our customers in the food and food service industries.

INGREDIENTS FOR INCREASED FOOD QUALITY AND CONVENIENCE

Designed to meet the demands of fast-paced consumer lifestyles, our ingredients play a central role in foods that are convenient and easy to prepare. Often they enhance the ability of a food product to maintain its high quality during distribution and storage. Not least they help food manufacturers control and reduce costs through more efficient use of raw materials and improved food formulations that stand up to high-speed production lines.

We invest considerable resources in understanding the needs of food manufacturers and consumers, in how the ingredients in their food products interact and are influenced by production processes, and in the development of new ingredients and services.

Using this knowledge, we turn science into art - working with our customers to develop creative new concepts that are fully viable in production. While we do so, we bear in mind relevant food legislation and incorporate these requirements in our solutions.

The competitive food market constantly demands innovative improvements to existing products and excitingly original product launches. Using knowledge, we generate opportunities for food manufacturers to answer this call and stay ahead.

INGREDIENT INNOVATION - CREATING AND MANAGING KNOWLEDGE

Innovation pervades our activities both at divisional and regional level. For this reason, we have established an innovation organisation to coordinate all our research, development and application efforts around the world. This gives us the opportunity to achieve maximum knowledge management and make best use of the synergy that complementary knowledge creates. Much of what we learn from our innovation activities is shared with customers via seminars, training courses and our online customer centre, Partnerweb. In all our confidential customer dialogues, innovation is central to value addition.

WORLDWIDE PRESENCE IN FOOD INGREDIENTS

Our many sales companies, innovation centres and production facilities are strategically located around the world. They are placed close to our customers and to the mainly natural raw materials on which our products are based: vegetable oils, animal fats, seaweed, citrus fruit and the seeds of leguminous plants.

Today Danisco employs around 8,000 people and is represented all over the world.