Nut substitute slashes costs and calories
“Nutricorn Nuts is a well-balanced ingredient that contains less fat and more fibres than nuts and is ideal for allergy sufferers because it is nut-free,” reports Dr Walter Lopez of Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients.
“Nutricorn Nuts contains 30% fewer calories, less fat than nuts (at least 50% less) and more fibre which can help to reach label claims.
Future pricing
“Also, nuts are expensive products with big price fluctuations due to harvests by replacing 50% in a bar recipe, Nutricorn Nuts allows you to decrease the recipe cost by nearly 28% and have a more assured view of future pricing.
“Above all, we believe that Nutricorn Nuts brings benefits for consumers the colour is slightly brown to give a very authentic aspect to the bars and they have a sweet taste and a toasted nuts flavour,” says Lopez.
