Nuts and Specialist ingredients

A food ingredient is any substance that is added to a food to achieve a desired effect. The term “food ingredient” includes food additives, which are substances added to foods for specific technical and/or functional purposes during processing, storage or packaging. Specialty food ingredients have technological and/or functional benefits and are essential in providing today’s consumer with a wide range of tasty, safe, healthy, affordable, qualitative and sustainably produced food. Speciality food ingredients are specially used for colour, texture, mixing, and to preserve food products. The ingredients improve the nutritional properties of the food and processed food.