Food Ingredients in Bar Applications
Delivering innovative solutions for winning bar formulations
Partnering with Scoular for your bar product innovation means embracing a future of health-focused possibilities and market confidence. Our extensive range of premium, high-quality ingredients addresses the evolving consumer demands for natural, functional, and protein-fortified options in meal replacement, nutrition, granola and snack bars.
We understand the challenges of sourcing reliable ingredients, and our expert support helps you have consistent access to the best materials for your formulations. By collaborating with Scoular, we can support you in creating products that not only meet but exceed market expectations, delivering a sensory experience that delights and satisfies.
Elevate your bar with Scoular Food Innovation
Functional benefits
Scoular offers a range of ingredients suited to infuse your bar applications with added benefits. Whether you’re looking to power with protein, boost fiber, reduce sugar, or otherwise optimize the overall taste and wellness of your product, we have the solutions to help.
Desired sensory experience
Formulating healthy bars that are both nutritious and delicious can be challenging. Our portfolio of on-trend and innovative ingredients offers highly functional solutions to optimize your product label without sacrificing taste and texture.
Applications support
With an in-house research and development team we can help create the custom solutions you need. Our dedicated team collaborates closely with your technical team to provide consultative concept development and solve application-specific challenges.
End-to-end supply chain solutions
Our specialists manage domestic and international logistics to assist in a world-class delivery experience for our customers. We reliably bring high-quality ingredients to your company by leveraging our robust global supply chain knowledge and dedicated network of supplier partners.
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Fats & Oils
Mixed Tocopherols
Scoular’s Natural Source Mixed Tocopherols (vitamin e) are natural antioxidants that have been isolated from edible vegetable oils. They are a widely used ingredient in food and dietary supplement solutions to help protect finished products from the damaging effects of oxidation. In doing so, they extend product shelf life and help prevent chemical reactions which can lead to undesirable changes in finished product flavor, odor, or color.
Soy Lecithin
Soy lecithin is a versatile and essential ingredient in the food industry, widely used for its powerful emulsifying, stabilizing, and nutritional properties. Derived from soybeans, this non-GMO ingredient can be added to a wide range of products to prevent separation in water and fat-based mixtures, to decrease surface tension and allow for enhanced dispersion of powders and liquids, or to prevent sticking to manufacturing surfaces.
Sunflower Lecithin
Sunflower lecithin is a non-GMO emulsifier that has become a popular choice for health-conscious consumers and food manufacturers alike. This versatile ingredient offers a clean and allergen-free alternative to traditional soy lecithin, while also offering additional health benefits associated with natural sunflower sources. Its ability to blend and stabilize ingredients makes it ideal for a variety of culinary applications, from creamy dressings and smooth chocolates to nutritious protein bars and beverages.
Fibers
Chicory Root Fiber
Our Chicory Root Fiber, a form of inulin naturally sourced from chicory root, is a non-GMO ingredient and soluble dietary fiber that provides nutritional and functional benefits without affecting taste, texture, mouthfeel and consumers’ clean-label expectations.
Nature’s answer to rebalance the nutritional profile of your favorite food choices by boosting fiber content, replacing undesired sugars, and reducing excess fat, it’s easy-to-use in diverse applications.
Food-Grade Seeds
Plant-Based Proteins
Brown Rice Protein
Scoular’s 80% Rice Protein is a protein powder made from non-GMO brown rice utilizing a highly consistent enzyme extraction method. Plant-based and allergen-friendly, it is a great alternative for those looking for protein supplement from a versatile and healthy source. Often combined with other plant-based proteins to create a complete protein profile, it is commonly used in RTM powders, nutrition bars, snacks, and more.
Chickpea Protein
Our 80% chickpea protein is a plant-based, high protein ingredient supporting clean-label, non-GMO and gluten-free innovations through functionality and nutrition. Suitable for a wide variety of applications with its neutral taste.
Pea Protein
Scoular’s pea protein is a clean label plant protein powder made from yellow peas. Suitable for many different food applications, including bars, snacks, meat and meat alternatives, extruded crisps, pasta and more. Pea protein is also a highly functional and nutritious protein for pet food formulations, avaialble as a concentrate or isolate.
Soy Protein Isolate
Scoular is the exclusive distributor of non-GMO Soy Protein Isolate in North America, offering customized ingredients to meet specific functional metrics, including water holding and emulsification, nutritional markers for protein fortification, and sensory targets such as improved texture and mouthfeel.
Supported by manufacturer and supplier in-house research and development and applications teams, we can help you find the right solution fast and first.
Sweeteners & Starches
Allulose
Allulose is a rare sugar naturally found in fruits or crops and is known as the leading next-generation sweetener due to its sugar-like sweetness and almost zero calorie content. Offered in crystalline and syrup formats, this non-GMO ingredient, which is 70% as sweet as sugar, can offer a versatile solution for those looking to cut down on added sugars with the added benefits of low caloric content while maintaining a taste profile similar to sugar.
The Latest Trends in Bars
Consumers are increasingly scrutinizing product labels and ingredient lists. In fact, 40% of snack bar consumers in the US say that snack bars made with natural ingredients are a priority for them.
Snack bar brands are responding to consumers’ demands for more clean-label snack bars by formulating with natural and organic ingredients
Source: Mintel