In food sectors major task to be addressed is the nature of the product i.e., synthetic, chemical or natural. Many chemical and synthetic preservatives are taking the major place in the market. These products have enormous side effects along with reducing final food product taste and texture. As health insight is increased in the world for a healthy lifestyle, people are looking for natural, clean-label, and safe alternatives.

LENA Natural and Clean Label Solutions (Europe) GmbH offers many natural and clean-label products including Natural Mold Inhibitor. Wheat or corn flour is fermented with reported food safe microorganisms of Non-GMO class. The organic acids produced in the fermentation process are neutralized with calcium to generate calcium salts for adding additional health value. This environmental friendly fermentation process is an effective alternative to the current industrial petrochemical based Calcium Propionate. 

LENA Natural and Clean Label Solutions (Europe) GmbH Natural Mold inhibitor increases the flavor, taste, and more importantly create the extended shelf-life needed by the modern baker. It can be used in bread, donuts, cookies, cakes, biscuits, bagel, buns, pizza crust, pies, and croissants etc. Mold free shelf-life can be extended up to 20 days depending on the formula. 

Fermented flour delivers the functionality needed for extended, mold-free shelf-life in the bakery and other food systems

Unique Advantages:

• As low as 0.5% requirement on flour weight
• Better dispersion throughout the food matrix
• Clean flavor 
• No effect on leavening action of baking powder 
• Reduces the consumption of yeast
• Easy to handle
• Enhances shelf-life
• Environmental friendly and natural    

Applications 

LENA Natural and Clean Label Solutions (Europe) GmbH Fermented Flours are used for the control of mold over time.  Mold free shelf- life can be extended up to 20 days dependent on formula. 

Organic Fermented Flour as Natural Mold Inhibitors

Certified organic farm flour materials are used as initial raw materials in the fermentation process to produce Organic Natural Mold Inhibitor. LENA Natural and Clean Label Solutions (Europe) GmbH fermented wheat or corn flour has been certified for use in organic products from EU and the United States as per the NOP* standards. Additionally, rice flour can be used as a fermentation input dependent on the customer requirements.

*NOP is a federal regulatory program that develops and enforces consistent national standards for organically produced agricultural products sold in the United States.

Enhanced shelf-life, flavor, taste, and control against Listeria growth for all type of meat products

Listeria monocytogenes is a food-borne pathogenic bacterium that causes the infection called listeriosis. It is a facultative anaerobic bacterium and capable of surviving in the presence or absence of oxygen. It is a Gram-positive bacterium with an ability to grow at as low as 0 °C temperature conditions. While unfortunately, the regular meat refrigeration temperature used is 4 °C. It can be an ideal condition for the growth of Listeria in preserved meat.

It can grow and reproduce inside the host cells (including human after consuming Listeria-infected meat). It is one of the most common and third high frequent virulent food-borne pathogen in the world.

In order to fix the above major issues by keeping the clean-label and non-GMO standards, a unique “one-stop solution- natural meat preservative” from LENA Natural and Clean Label Solutions (Europe) GmbH, was developed for all types of meat products including poultry and cooked meat. It is produced by the fermentation of glucose obtained from corn flour. It enhances shelf-life, flavor, and taste of meat products. Glucose can also be derived from cassava, rice, corn, wheat, and other naturally available Non- GMO carbohydrates sources.

Fermented Corn Flour consists of naturally derived lactates and acetates of potassium and sodium minerals.

Potassium Lactate

Potassium Lactate can dramatically increase shelf-life of a wide range of meat, poultry, and cooked meat products. It inhibits the microbial growth and oxidative changes in the preserved meat. The use of Potassium Lactate offers control against many pathogens found in refrigerated food products like Clostridium botulinum, Staphylococcus aureus, and Listeria monocytogenes.

It is hygroscopic in nature and also has a positive effect on the products water holding capacity. This results in a higher cook yield along with improved texture for the cooked product. Potassium Lactate is an excellent alternative to sodium salt in functionality. With these reasons, it can substitute the sodium salt in low sodium applications. Equal to regular salt, it has strong water binding properties and bacterial control.

Sodium Lactate

The sodium salt form of lactic acid is Sodium Lactate. It is commonly used in the food industry including meat products. Sodium lactate is a generally recognized as safe (GRAS) ingredient. It is used as an emulsifier, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent, humectant, and pH control agent. There are three proposed mechanisms by which the Sodium Lactate can have an antimicrobial effect.

1. The first mode is by changing water activity
2. Secondly by passing through the cell membrane and lowering intracellular pH levels
3. Finally is affecting cellular metabolism by inhibition of ATP generation

Sodium Lactate has also been shown to improve colour stability of fresh meat and has been reported to function as an antioxidant. 

Unique features:

• Controls Listeria growth
• Enhances shelf-life by the antimicrobial effect
• Improves production yields, purge, and texture
• Highers taste of all meat related products
• Colour Stability

Natural Meat Preservative Formulations from LENA Natural and Clean Label Solutions (Europe) GmbH

Multiple Advantages of the Fermented Glucose – Liquid formulations 

The Fermented Glucose – Liquid formulation finding the way into many different applications in the food industry. Both the fresh meat and processed meat sectors have found numerous benefits for using Fermented Glucose formulations from LENA Natural and Clean Label Solutions (Europe) GmbH. It is used in the production of processed meats and has been found to improve characteristics such as tenderness, shelf-life, and color stability.

Clean-Label, Non-GMO, Fermented Rice Flour

Multiple Organic Salts are the major part of typical Natural Vinegar. This is useful for all type of food industries. Rice flour is initially converted to glucose liquid which is further fermented to produce organic salts by using suitable bacteria strain. Later the obtained natural vinegar liquid is processed and spray dried for generating powder form based on the requirement.

LENA Natural and Clean Label Solutions (Europe) GmbH is a supplier of “Allergen Free” Fermented Products including the Natural Vinegar composed of Multiple Organic Salts

Applications

Natural and fermented rice flour (typically organic vinegar liquid or powder form, a mixture of organic salts) has been traditionally used as a food preservative. The product is naturally produced using fermentation process which retards microbial growth and contributes sensory properties to various foods products. 

It is a predominant flavouring agent. An environmentally friendly, natural, and easy to handle the product. It functions as an antimicrobial agent and pH regulator.

Targeted Industries

• Used in acidified foods for lowering the pH – In acidified foods like pickles, fermented rice flour is used to lower the pH of the finished product that helps to prevent the growth of pathogenic bacteria like Clostridium botulinum.
• Applied to meat for microbial growth reduction – Meat offers an ideal environment for both spoilage and pathogenic bacteria growth. Several studies on both raw and ready to eat meats have been conducted over the last few years. Reports suggest that Fermented Rice Flour is a viable solution for the meat industry as processors are reducing the artificial preservatives for a healthy life.
• It is used in the beverage industry as an antimicrobial product.
• Used as a cleaning agent
• In manufacturing various dyestuff, perfumes, in the textile industry, in inks as well as dyes preparation, in rubbers, plastics, and pesticides.
• Used for clinical blood tests in laboratories.
• Used in the film industry.

Benefits:

1. Increases tenderness
2. Enhances flavor
3. pH regulator
4. Antimicrobial component
5. Environmental friendly & natural
6. Easy to handle

The importance for better health and quality food is rising gradually in people. The main motif of LENA Natural and Clean Label Solutions (Europe) GmbH is to offer natural and clean-label products for easy understanding of the consumers in a healthy way. Selective micro-organisms with history in the food industry and Non-GMO were chosen initially. Glucose or sucrose is used as raw materials for the eco-friendly superior fermentation process to produce a mixture of organic salts.

These organic salts have a greater role in the production of quality cheese and other allied milk proteins. Fermented Glucose / Sucrose is available in spray-dried granulated or powder form. We are exploring the different applications of fermented Glucose / Sucrose in the food industry as an additive or ingredient. 

Unique Features of Fermented Glucose / Sucrose

Fermented Glucose / Sucrose enhance the taste, texture, and nutritional profile of the processed foods. It often helps in extending the shelf-life of the final consumer product. Easy acceptance of fermented Glucose / Sucrose by body makes high bio-availability of minerals to the human body. By having weak organic acids, it enhances the shelf life of foods, beverages, and also all kinds of feeds.

• It is useful to produce quality cheese with enhanced calcium % and shelf-life with neutral pH. 
• Fermented Glucose / Sucrose delivers the extended calcium functionality needed for dairy and other food products.

Advantages:

• Increases tenderness
• Enhances Flavor
• Enhances nutritional value for cheese
• Enhances the texture of all dairy products
• Increases the shelf-life of the products
• Environmental friendly and natural
• Easy to handle