How to Lower Your Costs

It’s a straight-line relationship—when prices rise at the pump, every industry sector is affected and that translates into higher priced packaged goods for the consumer. Commodity ingredient pricing is anyone’s best guess. What if there was a way to use a highly functional ingredient that could help trim costs across a wide spectrum of applications? Give your company the economic edge while realizing multiple functional benefits from one simple,

natural ingredient, Z-Trim®.

In an industry when there is always a hidden flaw in the latest miracle ingredient, Z-Trim® is a dependable workhorse that delivers on its promises. Utilizing a proprietary process, Z-Trim® is created from either oat hull or corn bran to create powdered cellulose. Z-Trim® is unique among the category of cellulose ingredients due to its short-chain polymeric structure. This gives Z-Trim® a very smooth mouth feel, easy dispersability and flavor neutrality.

Z-Trim® is able to provide a stable price point in a market where commodities fluctuate radically. It enables formulators to replace more costly ingredients such as soybean oil or dairy solids. In one example, Z-Trim® blended with skim milk replaced 30% of the cream cheese, a costly dairy commodity, in a cheesecake formulation, while maintaining a smooth, creamy mouth feel and texture. In addition to the economic benefit, Z-Trim® improves the nutrition profile as well, in this instance, cutting out 25% of the fat content.