Add-Here™ CSA from TIC Gums

TIC Gums is introducing Add-Here CSA to the snack and bakery industry at the IFT, on June 26, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The new Add-Here line of products from TIC Gums allows for sugar free binding and fixing of food ingredients. The Add-Here CSA product is specifically for sticking and maintaining inclusions like seeds to bagels or salt and spices to crackers, chips or other snack products.

Add-Here CSA is a proprietary blend of gums. It is cold water soluble, with viscosity low enough to be spray-able. With its binding and film forming characteristics, it can hold more salt, spices, seeds or other inclusions without the addition of sugar, honey, egg wash, or high fructose corn syrup.

Add-Here CSA can be used for affixing inclusions and spices onto foods like the following:

• Bagels/bread
• Pretzels
• Rice crackers
• Seasoned nuts
• Meat
• Croutons

Add-Here CSA can also seal burritos, and other closed meat or fruit filled pockets.

Features & Benefits of Add-Here CSA

• Sugar reduction: no or lower sugar without the loss of binding, texture or stability.
• Improved binding for inclusions: for spices, salt and/or sugar to stay where they were intended and not in the bottom of a bag.
• Allergen free: though variable in some countries outside the U.S. it is possible for more people to enjoy and/or benefit from foods they could not eat previously.
• Shine: where and when needed, gloss does not have to be added with another “coat” of a separate product which also saves time and money.

Add-Here CSA makes reduced sugar bakery and snack foods possible and shows how gums and gum systems can mimic or even replace the stabilization and film forming properties of fully sugared products.  

 About TIC Gums

TIC Gums is a global leader in advanced texture and stabilization solutions for the food industry. Food and beverage companies rely on TIC Gums to improve the texture, stability, consistency, nutritional profile, and shelf appeal of their products. Legendary customer service, high quality standards, and the unrivaled knowledge of our Gum Gurus^® has made TIC Gums the industry leader for more than 100 years.