Since the last decade, consumer demand for clean label products have increased. Nowadays, consumers demand a lot more from food. Delivering fresh and tasty food is not enough, it must also be natural and healthy. Everyone loves to eat fresh food. But as time passes, the quality of food starts deteriorating and it’s quite inevitable. This affects not only the taste, aroma and texture of food; but also causes serious health risks and food wastage.
Kankor is presented the IFT innovation award
One of the major reasons for the deterioration of food is the auto-oxidation of lipids by which the food develops off-odours and flavours, loses its visual appeal and nutritional value. Anti-oxidants are substances that prolong the shelf life of food by delaying the oxidation process and preventing the degradation and rancidity of unsaturated fats and oils in it. Since the 1940s synthetic antioxidants have been dominant in food preservation and shelf-life extension. Recent studies question the safety of using synthetic anti-oxidants, with research clearly pointing to the fact that these can be detrimental to human health. This has led to a rapid change in preferences, with consumers increasingly choosing natural products over synthetic ones.
Fresh and healthy food for a longer time
Rosemary extract has been the most dominant natural anti-oxidant among the consumers in North America and Europe due to its familiarity and acceptance as a common culinary ingredient. Rosemary extracts, when used as an anti-oxidant, imparts flavour, aroma and colour to the end applications. This poses a challenge and was always considered a major limitation by food processors in using it in pre-packaged foods. Rosemary extracts are thus not preferred for sensitive food matrices, which are sensitive to flavour and colour. Kancor decided to address this problem directly, by developing a robust, yet fully refined natural anti-oxidant solution from rosemary. The company’s R & D has developed a break-through natural anti-oxidant, OxiKan CL, a fully decolourised, deodourised and deflavoured liquid extract of selective antioxidant molecules of rosemary and it doesn’t alter the organoleptic profile of the food matrix. OxiKan CL has been tested extensively for its impact in the most sensitive foods and has proven not to contribute any visible colour or odour to the matrix even at the highest dosage levels. Furthermore, when it comes to oxidative stability, OxiKan CL was also tested for effectiveness in sensitive food matrices, and its impact compared to that of other leading natural and synthetic anti-oxidants. OxiKan CL successfully outperformed natural tocopherol at a fraction of its dosage and also TBHQ, which is a popular synthetic anti-oxidant, thereby demonstrating increased effectiveness in enhancing shelf-life of sensitive foods like popcorn. OxiKan CL is a completely natural, label friendly solution that is free from irradiation, is non-GMO, Halal and Kosher certified. It is the perfect natural anti-oxidant solution for sensitive applications such as popcorn, beverages, spreads, dressings, omega enriched products etc.
OxiKan CL won the IFT 2018 Food Expo Innovation Award for this year for the comparative study on shelf life enhancement of Popcorn using OxiKan CL, Natural Tocopherol and TBHQ. Earlier in 2016, OxiKan CLS, the water soluble variant won the World Beverage innovation awards at BrauBeviale for Best Beverage Ingredient Category for the colour impact study on citrus beverages using OxiKan CLS and rosemary extracts. Its R&D is in constant interaction with customers to develop anti-oxidant solutions addressing their concerns. It has done extensive application studies on various food matrices like Snacks (Meat Patties, Pop corns, chips), fats and oils and beverages to name a few. Our team has also done efficacy studies of OxiKan on various applications by comparing our product offerings with other synthetic and natural anti-oxidants. Kancor focuses on developing tailor-made natural anti-oxidant solutions addressing various industry challenges.
Kancor Ingredients Limited is a pioneer in Global Spice Extraction, whose roots in the spice trade can be traced back to 1857 in Cochin, the spice capital of the world. Partnering with V Mane Fils, France, one of the world’s largest Flavour and Fragrance companies, Kancor specialises in complete food ingredient solutions, right from sourcing of raw materials, extraction, research, formulation, testing and final delivery. Every product adheres to global standards and the company is certified with GMP, ISO-9001, FSSC-22000, ISO 22000, HACCP, ISO 14001 BS OHSAS 18001, ISO 50001, SEDEX, KOSHER, HALAL and Organic. We work closely with farmers through backward integration programmes. Today, Kancor serves more than 60 countries across the globe.
