Hydrocolloids are mainly natural substances of plant or microbiological origin, which due to their properties are of unique functionality for food industry. Thanks to them it is possible to produce many well-known food products such as chewing gums, yogurts, low sugar jams, sauces and ready meals as well as cheap meat products. Depending on chemical composition and type, hydrocolloids even at at low dosages play a significant role as thickening agents, water binding agents as well as
foam, suspension and emulsion stabilizers. Hydrocolloids give a proper structure to our products improving mouthfeel, giving a feeling of satiety and in dietary products they prolong the time of ingesting nutrients.
Commonly used in:
• Food concentrates to make custards, jellies and instant soups,
• Fermented products – for clarifying beers,wines and drinking honeys
• Bakery products - for better water binding and better structure
• Dairy products for stabilizing suspensions and emulsions
• Sweet snacks – for making sweets, cake icings, chewing gums
• Fruit and vegetable products – structure improvement of jams and vegetable sauces
• Sauces – stabilisation of sauces and mayonnaises
• Meat – for better water binding, stabilizing emulsions and stuffing thickening.

Carrageenans
One of the most common hydrocolloid used in many areas of food industry, mainly for meat and dairy products. Obtained through seaweed extraction has a huge functional meaning as a gelling agent, water binding agent and stabilizer and structure protector during freezing and thawing. It is an indispensable ingredient for high yield meat products, milk desserts, ice creams and sweets. Even with low dosages allows to obtain many widely known products.
Carrageenans
- Lautagel SR*
- Lautagel R**
- Lautagel IT***

Konjac Gum
Glucomannan is a substance obtained a perennial
herb originating from China often referred to as
Konjac gum.
It is a versatile food ingredient owing to its unique
properties:water soluble, gelling agent, stable,
thickening agent, film-forming agent.
It is an irreplaceable ingredient of many foods:
bakery products, beverages, breading and batters,
candies & confections, condiments, dairy products,
formed foods, salad dressings, soups & gravies,
snack foods, frozen & refrigerated entrees.

Guar Gum
Xanthan Gum
Sodium Alginate

* Semi-refined food grade Kappa Carrageenan (E407a)
** Refined food grade Kappa Carrageenan (E407)
*** Semi-refined and grade IOTA Carrageenan