Upcycled citrus-peel fiber for stabilizing food systems

Overview

NUTRAVA Citrus Fiber is a next-generation, nature-based ingredient designed to meet the growing consumer demand for clean-label food and beverage products. Upcycled from intact citrus peels—an abundant byproduct of the juice industry—this versatile fiber provides essential functional benefits, including stabilization, thickening, suspension, and water-binding. By offering a recognizable, label-friendly alternative to traditional additives, it enables manufacturers to simplify ingredient lists while achieving desired textures and mouthfeel.

Technical specifications

• Functional Capabilities: Provides emulsion stability, viscosity enhancement, syneresis control, and water-holding capacity.
• Clean Label Benefits: Can be listed simply as citrus fiber on labels and does not require E-numbers in Europe.
• Versatility: Acts as a functional replacement or reduction agent for starch, eggs, oil, butter, tomato solids, fruit pulp, and various gums (e.g., xanthan, locust bean).
• Sustainability: Upcycled Certified ingredient produced via a patented, water-efficient process that repurposes citrus peels and utilizes process water for local crop fertilization.
• Applications: Suitable for a wide range of products, including beverages, bakery items, condiments, sauces, dairy and dairy alternatives, soups, and meat or plant-based meat alternatives.

Technology readiness level

9. The product is commercially available, has been in production since 2019, and is supported by large-scale manufacturing facilities in Brazil with significant production capacity. It has received industry innovation awards and third-party Upcycled certification.