Overview of Z Trim Holdings, Inc.

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Z Trim Holdings, Inc. deploys technology, formulation, and product performance solutions built around cutting-edge dietary fibers for both domestic and international food markets.

The Company's core product portfolio of multifunctional dietary fiber food ingredients includes corn Z Trim� and non-GMO oat Z Trim�. The superior water-holding capacity and unique amorphous structure of Z Trim ingredients are key to the exclusive multifunctional attributes they contribute to food product design, including moisture management, texture and appearance quality, fat and calorie reduction, and cost control.

Z Trim� is now being used by food manufacturers, restaurants, schools, and consumers on 6 continents, across a multitude of food categories, such as meats, sauces, soups, dressings, baked goods, fillings, toppings, prepared meals, dairy products, frozen handheld snacks, and pizza dough. Food formulators are seeking greater functionality and product performance than they can get from starches, gums, fats, and other fibers - for both standard and lower fat content foods - and are increasingly discovering how Z Trim� multifunctional fiber ingredients can help to delight their consumers with finished products that have enhanced eating quality, outstanding product performance, and frequently, improved nutritional profiles.

Z Trim� multifunctional fiber ingredients originated from a USDA patent for minimally processed, non-caloric functional food ingredients made from healthy dietary fiber. With an exclusive license from the USDA, this patent is central to the company's intellectual property portfolio. Z Trim Holdings subsequently evolved the processing technology and expanded the fiber sources to create innovative ingredients with unique properties that provide multifunctional benefits that help create value for food manufacturers around the world.
Currently, Z Trim is made from corn and oat, but it can be produced from virtually any cellulose, the substance that makes up most of a plant's cell walls, and is one of the most abundant organic compounds on earth.

The Company currently manufactures and markets Z Trim� products as cost-competitive ingredients that help improve the food industry's ability to deliver on its promises of quality, taste, and healthfulness. The Company's primary goal is establishing Z Trim� as an important ingredient in the evolution of the food industry and consumer expectations. The Company is developing its market through (i) direct and brokered sales to major food manufacturers, as well as small and mid size companies for packaged retail foods, and (ii) direct and brokered sales to large and small foodservice manufacturers that supply to restaurants, hospitals, schools and cafeterias. Our R&D team, in conjunction with our customers and strategic industry partners, continues to develop additional products and applications.

Z Trim Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in the State of Illinois on May 5, 1994 under the original name Circle Group Entertainment Ltd. The Company has no operating subsidiaries.

Z Trim Holdings operates within the $25-30 billion per year (2006) global business of food additives. The global hydrocolloid business - which consists of agents used for thickening, gelling and stabilizing food and beverage products is over $19 billion per year
(https://www.sriconsulting.com/CEH/Public/Reports/582.7000/) with food applications constituting approximately $4.2 billion of that total (https://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Financial-Industry/Health-and-prices-dominate-hydrocolloids-debate). Specifically, the U.S. fat replacer and bulk dietary fiber (supplement) markets are estimated to be just over $500 million each, with carbohydrate-based fat replacers such as Z Trim accounting for approximately 59 percent of the market in 2000
(https://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-insight-top.pag?docid=10039518).

Z Trim Holdings protects an array of intangible assets that includes patents pending and issued, as well as a wide array of trade secrets and know-how, trademarks and copyrights. Central to this portfolio is an exclusive license to US Patent No. 5,766,662, including all related international patents, issued to Dr. George Inglett of the USDA. This license expires upon the expiration of the underlying patent in late 2015. Through the process of development and commercialization of the technology, the Company has identified and sought patent protection for improvements to the manufacturing process, product applications and is currently developing several commercially promising spin-off technologies. Presently, the Company employs 24 full-time employees and no part-time employees.Our shareholders are critical to our success, and we are pleased to have so many supportive people who are part of our corporate family. Z Trim Holdings, Inc. (ZTHO.OB) manufactures Z Trim Multifunctional Fiber Ingredients� so that food manufacturers can introduce greater functionality, product performance, and marketability in the world's processed foods.

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