URC® pieces, flakes and pastes are designed to add value and drive innovation in commercial food products and nutritional snacking.
Taura's area of expertise is nutritional fruit ingredients, but whether you're looking for a 100% fruit content or an indulgent flavour concept, the URC® range of flavour formats and ingredient profiles are the solution.
The variety of product formats lend to flexibility in application and can be tailored to your new product development needs.
URC® Fruit Nutrition
As the trend towards health and wellness continues, fruit based ingredients are being sought as a source of natural nutrition. URC® functional fruit ingredients are enabling manufactures to deliver commercial snack products that make a health promise and deliver it.
The speed of the concentration process and rapid cooling system ensures the original ingredients retain their primary flavour, colour and nutritional characteristics. URC® ingredients can contain up to seven times their own weight in real fruit enabling portion of fruit claims, on-pack labelling and other nutritional benefits in single applications.
The extensive fruit range includes traditional difficult to work with fruits such as red berries, as well as super fruits, exotic and popular fruits.
Fruit content can be altered to suit your needs from a 100% named fruit piece to a flavour blends with apple base.
Unique features of the URC® Fruit range:
- Extensive popular and super fruit range including flavour blends options
- Fortification options including nutraceuticals, botanical and natural extracts
- Made from fruit purees
- No artificial flavours, colours or preservatives
- Suitable as a natural sugar replacer in some products
- Enables nutritional fruit claims and on-pack labeling
- Available in piece, flake and paste formats
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URC® Savoury concepts
Savoury snacking trends are on the horizon. Be first to market with simple twist on traditional snack favorites, create novel flavour pairings or extend your sweet products into savoury categories.
Utilising our knowledge and experience with fruit nutrition, we have extended our product range to include URC® Savoury. Primarily available in vegetable based pastes, URC® Savoury ingredients can offer real vegetable nutrition and natural goodness.
Sweet-salty profiles are a fast growing flavour trend, as is the increasing demand for spiced, peppered and ethnic themes; explore the flavours of exotic countries, local cuisine or nostalgic trends.
Unique features of the URC® Savoury range:
- Innovative and unique savoury flavour profiles
- Concentrated vegetable ingredient options
- Low water activity piece and paste formats
- Non-sticky paste formats suitable for ultra dry applications
- Low allergen
- Low fat and sugar formulations
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URC® Sweet Creations
Our URC® Creations range of sweet products offer trademark URC® functionality with unique and innovative flavour delivery. Primarily available in pastes, a range of textures is possible including a non-sticky texture that remains soft but sturdy enough to hold its place.
Sweet products such as honey, caramels, chocolates, and dairy based concepts are available in bake stable, low water activity formats that can be used as fillings, binders or even as visible layers – a trend in sweet snack bars.
Dairy based fillings such as yoghurts and smoothie flavour blends are also possible with URC®.
Unique features of the URC® Creations range:
- Unlimited sweet and indulgent flavour profiles
- Low water activity piece and paste formats
- Non-sticky paste formats suitable for ultra dry applications
- Low allergen
- Low fat and sugar options
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