Short Chain Fos | scFOS for affordable value sugar reduction

Nutritional properties

Using scFOS means replacing sugar while adding dietary fibre. This in turn improves the nutritional profile of a product, allowing manufacturers to achieve a better score for front-of-pack nutrition labelling systems worldwide.  

Did you know, for example, that just 3 grams of scFOS delivers the same amount of fibre as 1 banana? 

• Dietary fibre: Not digested by human enzymes in the small intestine 
• Low glycaemic: Not digested in the small intestine and thus no glucose release 
• Low caloric: Not digested in the small intestine but fermented in the large intestine. Providing 2kcal/g (= half the carbohydrate calories) 

Sugar out and fibre in – Nutritionally balanced sugar replacer 

With a sweetness level of ±50%, Beneo-scFOS offers a mild sweet taste and only half the calories as sucrose. It has sugar-like technical properties, is well-balanced and without any after-taste.  

Thanks to its sugar-like physical properties, Beneo-scFOS allows for a good fruit flavour release in e.g. fruit preparations and can be used as natural bulk sweetener ingredient: adding both to texture and body of the finished product. With a similar viscosity as sucrose and a high solubility (>80%) this sugar-replacer is easily formulated in all kinds of applications such as bakery, dairy, and cereals; thus, enhancing the nutritional profile. 

Baked goods: Humectant properties 

Apart from being a natural sugar replacer, BENEO-scFOS can act as humectant: keeping baked goods (e.g. cereal bars) softer and hence securing a longer shelf life. This soluble fibre syrup helps to better control water mobility in the formulation matrix, which ultimately leads to lesser crystallization of starch and softer baked goods.