New Saladizer^® developed for dairy-based dressings

WHITE MARSH, MD -- October 26, 2009 -- As anyone who has poured a runny dairy-based dressing can attest, not all creamy salad dressings live up to the label. For that reason TIC Gums is helping put the “creamy” in creamy salad dressings.

The latest gum blend, Saladizer^® Dairy Stabilizer, was specifically developed for dairy-based salad dressings to ensure a stable, consistent product with a smooth mouthfeel and appearance. Saladizer Dairy Stabilizer has been designed to improve particulate suspension and impart a creamy texture to emulsions containing dairy ingredients including milk, cheese, buttermilk or cream. The product works in the most challenging dressing formulations, such as bleu cheese varieties.

"The Saladizer Dairy Stabilizer is an example of how we are responding to customers' needs for solutions to very specific challenges," explains lead food scientist Maureen Akins, who worked extensively on the development and testing of the product. "By solving that problem, this new gum blend allows manufacturers to create better dressings in a faster, more reliable way, and that, in turn, saves them from both production and consumer acceptability issues."

Saladizer Dairy Stabilizer is one of the most recent additions to TIC Gums' popular Saladizer^® series, products that are specially designed to meet the demands of dressing and sauce manufacturers.

For more information or product samples of TIC Gums' Saladizer Dairy Stabilizer, call TIC Gums at (800) 899-3953 or visit ticgums.com.

Founded as the Tragancanth Importing Company in 1909, TIC Gums is the #1 preferred hydrocolloid supplier to the U.S. food industry for nine consecutive years supplying a complete line of gums and gum systems: Agar, Agaroid^®, Alginates, Acacia, Aragum^®, Caragum, Carrageenan, Colloids, FASTir^TM, Freedom Gum, Guar, Guar Flavor Free, Guarcel^®, GuarNT^®, Inulin, Ticacel MCC, Locust Bean Gum, ^®, Pectin, Pre-Hydrated^®, Saladizer^®, Stabilizers, Ticagel^TM, Ticaloid^®, Ticalose^® CMC, TicaPAN^TM, Ticaxan^® Xanthan and Ticamulsion^®.