Food & Beverage Texturants

ADM has a broad portfolio of versatile texturant ingredients that can help you create and calibrate the ideal texture, viscosity, mouthfeel, and stability for your food and beverage products, as well as non-food applications like personal care items.

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One of the Leading Texturant Ingredient Manufacturers for Food and Beverages

If you’ve created a product with delicious flavor and the right nutritional profile, but need a hand getting the consistency, smoothness, or texture just right, ADM’s texturants and ingredient technical experts are here to help. ADM has been leading texturant and soy lecithin production in the U.S. since the 1940’s, carefully building a portfolio of North American-sourced and -produced plant-based emulsifiers, polyols, and hydrocolloid solutions.

Offering you a broad range of texturant choices, ADM backs up our offerings with unmatched experience, a vast distribution network, and a global supply chain that ensures your products get to market on time. Our partners can also access our outstanding technical support team and proprietary consumer research. Our customizable texturant solutions offer a variety of labeling options such as non-GMO, kosher, gluten-free and more.

Our Portfolio of Texturants

ADM has the texturant ingredients to help you get the desired consistency, smoothness, and texture of your food and beverage products.

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Emulsifiers

Our emulsifiers are used for blending, dispersion, nutrition, and more in confectionery, baked goods, and many other product applications.

Hydrocolloid Solutions

ADM’s hydrocolloid solutions help boost viscosity, shelf-life stability, functionality, dispersion, and clarity, offering a variety of benefits to your products.

Polyols

Our polyols help ensure consumer-pleasing attributes in baked goods, dairy products, confections, chewing gum, frozen desserts, chocolate fillings, beverages, and more.

ADM is Your Texturants Partner

When you partner with the texturants experts at ADM, you get access to our broad portfolio of food texturant ingredients, team of formulation experts, and global supply chain to help you create products that consumers will love.

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Unparalleled Technical Support

Our team of industry-leading experts is here to offer you support at every step.

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Global Supply Network

We have longstanding relationships with suppliers and a vast, global supply chain.

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Consumer Research

Get the latest consumer insights and market trends through our Outside Voice℠ program.

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Customized Solutions

Our ingredient experts can create a custom solution tailored to your specific needs.

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Labeling Options

Our ingredients offer a variety of different labeling options for your products.

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Our Consumer-Driven Approach

As an industry leader with over 85 years of texturant production excellence and a legacy of technical expertise, ADM is here to help you create products that meet consumer expectations. We have the market insights, broad range of ingredients, procurement capabilities, and robust supply network you need. Learn more about our hydrocolloid solutions in our downloadable case study.

A Longstanding Leader in Texturants

ADM has been pioneering the field of texturants and lecithin production in the U.S since the 1940’s. We’ve been building our globally sourced portfolio of texturants, emulsifiers, polyols, and hydrocolloid solutions for decades to help you deliver products that delight consumers.

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Lecithin’s broad functionality makes it a crucial ingredient in food products, meeting the need for quality, versatility, and innovation.

Swapnil Jadhav

Research and Development Manager

Frequently Asked Questions

ADM is your go-to texturants partner. Read our answers to some commonly asked questions about our texturant products and services below.

What Are Food Texturants?

Food texturants are a versatile ingredient that can be added to food and beverages to improve mouthfeel, viscosity, binding, releasing, consistency, stability and more.

What Types of Food and Beverages Can Benefit From ADM’s Texturants?

Our texturants can be applied across a wide range of food and beverages including baked goods, dairy and non-dairy alternatives, confections, sauces, dressing, meat and meat alternatives, frozen foods, and more product categories.

How Do ADM’s Texturants Improve Product Functionality and Stability?

When you add ADM’s texturants to your product, they interact with other ingredients like proteins and carbohydrate solids within your formulation to achieve the desired effect. ADM’s texturants and texturant blends can be tailored to promote blending and mixing, ensure separation, aid in the dispersion of proteins and other materials, and act as a nutritional supplement. Our team of ingredient experts can help you find the right texturant or create a custom blend to meet the specific functionality and stability needs of your products.

Can ADM Create Customized Texturant Solutions for My Specific Formulation Needs?

Yes, our ingredient experts can help you create a customized texturant blend to meet the specific formulation needs of your food and beverage products.

Does ADM Offer Labeling Options for Its Texturant Solutions?

In our broad portfolio of texturants, we have options to help you achieve a variety of desirable claims including: halal, PCR negative, non-GMO, non-bioengineered, allergen free1, organic, kosher, clean label, and gluten free.

Partner With Us Now!

For general inquiries, questions, or more information about our commercial food texturants, please reach out to us. Our team of experts is here to help.

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This content is based on United States laws and regulations applicable on the day of publication of this content. We point out that customers are required to ensure that any labeling and claims made by customers for their finished products must be based on the regulatory requirements and scientific standards of the country in which the final products are offered for sale. Not all products are available in all regions.