Kerry Group

Kerry’s ingredients are designed to appeal to health-conscious consumers looking for food and beverage products that deliver nutrition and wellness benefits. Optimize taste, nutrition, function, sustainability and consumer appeal in food and beverage applications with Kerry solutions and expertise. From enhancing the taste and nutrition of foods and beverages to improving drug development, our products solve challenges from the common to the complex. Whether you’re reformulating an established product or innovating something new, Kerry’s differentiated solutions can help deliver great tasting and optimized innovation at pace.

Products and solutions:

Emulsifiers and texturants

Kerry’s range of emulsifiers and texturants improve processing, performance and enhances product quality across a variety of applications.

• Admul™
• Gum Acacia
• Myvacet™
  
• Myvalite™
• Myvatex™
• Myverol™

Fiber solutions

Gum Acacia
Gum acacia, also known as gum arabic and acacia fiber, is a natural soluble dietary fiber extracted from acacia tree resin. Gum acacia offers both functional and nutritional benefits for a wide range of food products. Some of these functional benefits include flavor encapsulation and flavor emulsions in beverages, protective barrier formation in coating and confectionary applications, and moisture stabilization and binding in bakery and snack foods.

Gum acacia’s nutritional value is due to its function as a beneficial fiber. All grades contribute fiber to food products, but Kerry Emulgold™ fiber is specially designed to increase fiber content in food products. Kerry Emulgold™ fiber is a natural, GMO-free source of soluble dietary fiber, sustainably produced using the resin from the acacia tree with low viscosity and high solubility. It has an excellent digestive tolerance and satiety effect.

Bakery solutions

Kerry has experts in preservation with a broad portfolio of tools to protect and extend shelf life. They offer more than ingredients by applying a total concept approach to solve complex bakery challenges. This is all done in partnership with customers to provide sustainable and science-backed solutions.

Kerry Upgrade™ is a naturally derived fermented ingredient consisting of a unique blend of organic acids. Upgrade improves product quality by inhibiting mold growth in bakery applications. Used to replace chemical preservatives such as calcium propionate, Upgrade is a clean label ingredient and can be applied to all yeast-raised and chemically leavened bread products. Applications include breads, rolls, croissants, tortillas, and pizza crust.

Benefits of Kerry Upgrade™:

• Clean label, naturally derived fermented ingredient
• Inhibits mold growth in bakery items
• Eliminates the need for calcium propionate and chemical preservatives
• Appealing fermented sensory profile enhances and complements flavor and aroma attributes of bakery items
• Standardized to a consistent level of organic acids
• Provides enhanced dough conditioning properties
• Available in certified organic and gluten-free formats

Kerry Golden Gloss Bakery Glaze

The bakery industry is one of the most impacted categories when it comes to the need for egg-free solutions, such as egg-free glazes - driven by the high volatility of egg prices and the increasing consumer demand for more sustainable, animal-free products. Kerry Bakery Glaze is a high-performing egg-free glaze, providing a price-stable solution for premium artisan products while expanding market positioning into plant-based categories.

Functional proteins

Versawhip™ and Hydrofoama™ are a range of natural and great tasting functional protein hydrolysates based on dairy, soy, wheat, pea, and rice. They exhibit exceptionally consistent whipping performance and are valued for replacing the aerating properties of egg albumen or gelatin. Ideal applications include sugar confectionery, bakery, and beverages and can support vegetarian, vegan, and allergen-free claims across all of these applications.

Univar Solutions offers direct tableting, granulation, capsules, sachet filling, and inhalation. Whether your excipient application is to improve stability, add bulk or specialized delivery, we have a product to suit your formulation needs.

As a leading manufacturer of pharmaceutical-grade lactose excipients, functional excipients, tableting systems, coatings, flavors, and emulsifiers for drug delivery systems, Kerry is uniquely positioned to continue a reputation of excellence in providing GMP-compliant ingredients to the pharmaceutical industry. They deliver one of the industry’s most extensive lactose product lines, including anhydrous, spray dried, monohydrate, and inhalation grades of lactose.

Lactose is a disaccharide of glucose and galactose obtained from the whey fraction of bovine milk. Depending on the temperatures used to crystallize and dry the lactose solution, it may be produced in either of two crystalline types: monohydrate or anhydrous. Lactose has many desirable characteristics for use as a pharmaceutical excipient. It is both chemically and physically stable, and highly compatible with other excipients and ingredients. In addition, it is an all-natural product, which is available in a variety of physical forms. Lactose is especially noted for its low hygroscopicity.

Products and solutions:

Crystalline Monohydrate

Monohydrate Lactose is a disaccharide obtained from the whey fraction of milk and consists of one glucose and one galactose moiety. Sheffield™ Brand Monohydrate Lactose, US, EU, and Japanese Pharmacopeias are crystalline alpha-monohydrate anomers. Both brands meet all requirements of the current National Formulary (NF), the European Pharmacopeia (EP), and the Japanese Pharmacopeia (JP).

• Sheffield™ 310
• Sheffield™ 312
• Sheffield™ 313
• Sheffield™ Capsulating Grade
• Sheffield™ 80M
• Sheffield™ 200 Mesh
• Sheffield™ Impalpable

Benefits:

• Inert material, high-purity, low color
• Moisture stable; Four-year shelf life
• Physically and chemically stable
• Several off-the-shelf grades and custom capabilities
• Milling and sieving capabilities (high flow grades available)
• Control of raw material – no supply issues
• High degree of crystallinity, low amorphous content

Spray-dried Monohydrate

Spray dried grades include NF Lactose Monohydrate Spray Dried 315 and 316 Fast®. Foremost® 316 Fast Flo® is ideal for direct compression and 315 may be used in direct compression and also used in capsule filling, with 316 Fast Flo® designed for optimal flow through high-speed tablet presses.

• Spray Dried 315
• Spray Dried 316 Fast Flo®

Benefits:

• Excellent tablet hardness at low compression forces
• Eliminate wet granulation technology, and reduce equipment and process validation
• Fast dissolution and low friability
• High flowability
• Low color development

Anhydrous Lactose

Anhydrous Lactose is a disaccharide obtained from the whey fraction of milk and consists of one glucose and one galactose moiety. Sheffield™ Brand Anhydrous Lactose, US, EU, and Japanese Pharmacopeias is a crystalline mixture of beta and alpha anomers and meets all requirements of the National Formulary.

• Sheffield™ Anhydrous DT High Velocity
• Sheffield™ Anhydrous Direct Tableting (DT)
• Sheffield™ Anhydrous 60M
• Sheffield™ Anhydrous Impalpable

Benefits:

• Eliminate or reduce higher cost or multiple excipients
• Replace wet granulation technology, reduce equipment, and process validation
• Excellent tablet hardness at low compression forces
• High purity and no yellowing; Pigment-free
• Optimal for tableting with unstable active ingredients
• Moisture stable; Four-year shelf life
• Physically and chemically stable
• Low friability and excellent dissolution
• Consistent re-worked tablet properties
• Several grades and custom capabilities
• Certified Kosher and Animal Rennet-Free