Thickeners

Tara gum is a very useful cooking aid because it is a strong and effective thickener for purees soups dressings and beverages (smoothies...). Use tara for a creamy mouth feel without adding any fat. Examples: fruit and vegetable purees, soup and consommé, dressings…

Carob is a useful cooking aid that has good thickening and stabilizing properties. Carob helps reduce ice crystallization in frozen desserts whether you are using an ice cream cooler or not and obtain a less grainy crunchy texture. Ex : "ice cream, sorbets"

Guar is a strong thickener used widely as a cooking aid. It imparts a softer mouth feel and bigger volume (mixed with xanthan) to the crumb of gluten-free bread and baked products. It also improves shelf life of bread. Ex: gluten-free bakes, thickened beverages

Guar is a strong thickener used widely as a cooking aid. It imparts a softer mouth feel and bigger volume (mixed with xanthan) to the crumb of gluten-free bread and baked products. It also improves shelf life of bread. Ex: gluten-free bakes, thickened beverages

Inulin is a well documented dietary fiber and prebiotic. It can be added to your daily diet. Inulin is a low calorie culinary aid that can mimic fat and cream in desserts (not in filo pastry nor butter in sweet dough). Ex : fiber rich preparations, light low calorie ice cream and custards…

Konjac is a useful culinary aid that combines thickening at low concentrations and being very poor in calories. Its texture has a fatty mouth feel and it replaces fat in dips and dressings without an overwhelming flavor or texture.

Konjac is a useful culinary aid that combines thickening at low concentrations and being very poor in calories. Its texture has a fatty mouth feel and it replaces fat in dips and dressings without an overwhelming flavor or texture.

Tara gum is a very useful cooking aid because it is a strong and effective thickener for purees soups dressings and beverages (smoothies...). Use tara for a creamy mouth feel without adding any fat. Examples: fruit and vegetable purees, soup and consommé, dressings…

Xanthan gum is a strong versatile thickener used as a cooking aid. It can instantly thicken dressings, beverages (milkshakes...) and mousse yielding more body and a pleasant mouth feel that will be perceived as fatty although no fat is there. Example: low calorie sauces, unctuous milkshake, cream whip mousse, liquid holding bubbles…