Producer of Fruits Sweeteners and Fruit Fibres

Herbafood Ingredients GmbH, Germany

Herbafood Ingredients is a specialist supplier of high quality ingredients of plant origin for the processing food industry. Since its foundation in 1980 it has created for itself a remarkable market position especially in the field of dietary fibres from fruits, vegetables and cereals as well as fruit sweeteners.

HERBAFOOD - PRODUCT RANGE

Herbasweet

Herbasweet is made from juice extracted and dried apple components. To guarantee a constant quality of Herbasweet the careful selection of the raw material is a decisive product factor.

The apple specific sugars are extracted from the cells of the apples by hot water extraction. Through further processing steps the sugars are separated from the other components.

The extract obtained is de-starched, de-ionized, de-colourized and de-flavoured by a special refinement process. The finished product is a high quality, universally applicable sweetening agent.

Herbarom

The product range Herbarom contains all colouring and flavouring sweet fruit extracts. Herbarom is made from juice extracted and dried apple components. To guarantee a constant quality the careful selection of the raw material begins already during cultivation.

The apple specific sugars will be extracted from the apple cells by hot water extraction, the insoluble components will be separated.
The extract contains, next to the apple specific sugars, also glucose, fructose and sorbitol, the colour and flavour components of the apple as well as the secondary, brown coloured reaction products resulting during processing.

Herbapekt

The Herbapekt series consists exclusively of soluble dietary fibres from different plants. It can be subdivided into two groups:

Herbacel

Herbacel Classic dietary fibres are made of fibre rich parts of fruits, vegetables or cereals. The dietary fibre content varies between 55 and 75 %, depending on the raw material. The dietary fibres comprise mainly of non-starch polysaccharides forming the cell walls. Different amounts of plant own sugars, starch, protein or lipids can also be found. Additionally, secondary plant metabolits like polyphenols, carotenoids or anthocyans contribute to characteristic behaviour concerning the flavour, colour or taste of the fibres.

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Multipekt Plus

(Apple pectin extract with vitamins, minerals, lecithin and fruit fibres)

Not only nutritional scientists agree on the fact that a balanced diet has a significant influence on our health. Even the consumer is aware of positive effects of certain nutraceutical ingredients. Pectin is one of the most popular food ingredients used in the world today. Once heralded as soluble fibre helping to improve the digestive system, many other benefits such as the capacity to reduce the blood cholesterol level have been discovered through continuous research.

The Herbafood Ingredients GmbH has an international reputation as a competent supplier of natural food ingredients achieved through the company’s applied technology and close work relationship tailored to meet customers requirements.

As the product range consisting of natural fruit sweeteners, pectin based soluble dietary fibres, fruit and cereal fibres as well as pectin rich fruit extracts being excellent sources for nutraceuticals we offer the following line of products for clients engaged in the marketing of nutraceuticals:

Products of our Multipekt range are based on apple pectin extracts (drum dried liquid pectin), apple and aronia fibres with additions of minerals, vitamins and lecithin.

It has been known for some years, that the fibres supplied with our food are essential for our digestion and metabolism. Several physiological effects are assigned to different fibres according to their origin and amount of soluble and non soluble fibres.