Reducing Sodium in Snacks

Make snacks more nutritious and delicious with our sodium-reducing application expertise and customisable portfolio of products and snack seasonings.

Sustainable nutrition and sodium reduction

Salty snacks are enjoyed worldwide, but consumers – and public health officials – are often left wanting options with less sodium. Our experts can lower salt content in snacks by up to 60%, using sodium-reducing products that are innovative, cost-effective and sustainably nutritious and delicious.

Salt: a nutritional imperative

It’s not just about putting less salt in, if you want to keep the flavour, the joy, and the zing you need to find new ways of replacing it.

Recent salty snack wins

Restoring Potato Chip Taste Intensity After Reducing Salt

The upfront taste impact, which delivers overall taste intensity and initial burst of flavour, is harder to emulate than the middle or lingering impacts of salt. Our innovative approach to delivering salty taste while keeping salt content low enabled us to develop a cost-effective way of creating upfront salty taste by leveraging our understanding of fermentation, umami, kokumi and process science.

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Improving Front-of-Package Nutrition Labels While Maintaining Great Taste

Our taste experts selected the perfect combination of ingredients to reduce sodium and meet taste expectations. To build the upfront taste, we selected a mineral salt. For an authentic upfront salty taste, we used a new-to-market Tastesense™ Salt solution. Next, to enhance the middle taste, we selected an umami and acids combination. Tastesense™ Masking hid the bitterness of the salt alternative. We then rebalanced the spices, herbs and flavours to match customer satisfaction with the original full-salt product.

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