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Ohly, our yeast-based specialty products business, is reshaping its food ingredients range in response to changing consumer demands.
Ohly produces flavour enhancements, such as yeast extracts and seasoning powders, which are used to enrich the taste in a wide variety of leading food products. In evolving our offering, selected focus areas for product development are:
Salt reduction: consumers increasingly understand the impact on health of using too much salt and want products that contain less salt but still taste great. We have developed a toolbox of ingredients that allow food producers to reinforce the taste profile of their recipes by using our natural yeast-derived ingredients. These ingredients often also deliver distinct taste experiences like umami or roasted notes;
Authentic, ethnic flavours: the rising popularity of once-niche regional flavours is creating global customer demand for exciting seasonings, a field where our PRODRY® culinary powders excel. Ohly uses its product and formulation expertise to turn liquid or viscous products like mustard into dry powders that continue to deliver the authentic flavour into a dry application such as snacks; and Meat alternatives: low- or no-meat diets are now mainstream as more people change their eating habits for reasons of health, principles or taste. The knock-on interest in meaty-tasting and functional ingredients presents a significant opportunity for natural yeast based ingredients.
Two non-food market segments also present significant opportunity for Ohly – biotechnology and animal health. In biotech, customers demand higher productivity, and our scientific ability to select the right nutrient combination delivers this. In animal health, farmers are seeking to reduce the use of antibiotics and our understanding of yeast cell structures allows us to provide ingredients with proven immune stimulation effect, reducing the need for antibiotics in the first place.
The pace of change across different markets requires Ohly to change too. And that’s what the team has kicked off, with the establishment of dedicated teams to focus on these specific market segments.