DSM To Showcase Its Oat Beta-Glucan Ingredient At IFT

PARSIPPANY, N.J.DSM Nutritional Products will showcase its ingredient brand of oat beta-glucan, OatWell®, at the IFT 2013 Expo in Chicago.

OatWell is offered to food and beverage manufacturers as well as dietary supplement producers who want to add the health benefits of oat beta-glucan to their products. Such clinically proven health benefits include the areas of cholesterol reduction, blood glucose control and gastrointestinal health. The milling and sieving process of oats in OatWell protects the key parameters needed for beta-glucan clinical efficacy including concentration, solubility and molecular weight, which are all necessary to ensure adequate viscosity in the gut. Oat beta-glucan works by forming a viscous gel within the lower intestine, thereby lowering blood cholesterol levels.

The product is an all-natural soluble fiber harvested from pure Swedish oats contributing to a clean label for finished products. OatWell has a neutral taste profile, long shelf life and can be used in a variety of applications like nutritional bars, cereal, pasta, smoothies, ready-to-drink beverages, dairy products and powdered mixes. The company will offer attendees samples of its OATally Healthy bars, a cereal bar with a vanilla yogurt coated bottom. The bar contains .75 gram of beta-glucan and is positioned for cholesterol reduction. Also offered will be European Supermarket Migros store brand, Blévita crackers containing a gram of beta-glucan per serving.

DSM also recently announced its concentrated yeast extract allows savory food producers to reduce the carbon footprint of the yeast extracts they use by 81%.