Snack Application Solutions
Create breakthrough formulations to meet consumer snacking demands
In today’s dynamic snacking landscape, Scoular stands as a beacon of innovation and quality, empowering manufacturers to navigate the challenges of diversification and rising costs with confidence. By partnering with Scoular, you gain access to a comprehensive suite of high-quality ingredients tailored to meet various dietary needs.
Our plant-based proteins cater to vegan and vegetarian consumers, while functional benefits like added fiber and protein provide a nutritional edge. Scoular’s commitment to health and wellness and experiential consumption helps your products not only meet but exceed market trends, all while maintaining impeccable quality. Together, we can create better-for-you snack products that resonate with health-conscious consumers and stand out in a competitive market.
Simplify better-for-you snacking with Scoular Food Innovation
Functional benefits
Scoular offers a range of ingredients suited to infuse your snack applications with added benefits. Whether you’re looking to power with protein, boost fiber, reduce sugar, or otherwise optimize the overall taste and wellness of your product, we have the solutions to help.
Desired sensory experience
Formulating snacks that are both nutritious and delicious can be challenging. Our portfolio of on-trend and innovative ingredients offers highly functional solutions to optimize your product label without sacrificing taste and texture.
Applications support
With an in-house research and development team we can help create the custom solutions you need. Our dedicated team collaborates closely with your technical team to provide consultative concept development and solve application-specific challenges.
End-to-end supply chain solutions
Our specialists manage domestic and international logistics to assist in a world-class delivery experience for our customers. We reliably bring high-quality ingredients to your company by leveraging our robust global supply chain knowledge and dedicated network of supplier partners.
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Fats & Oils
Mixed Tocopherols
Scoular’s Natural Source Mixed Tocopherols (vitamin e) are natural antioxidants that have been isolated from edible vegetable oils. They are a widely used ingredient in food and dietary supplement solutions to help protect finished products from the damaging effects of oxidation. In doing so, they extend product shelf life and help prevent chemical reactions which can lead to undesirable changes in finished product flavor, odor, or color.
Soy Lecithin
Soy lecithin is a versatile and essential ingredient in the food industry, widely used for its powerful emulsifying, stabilizing, and nutritional properties. Derived from soybeans, this non-GMO ingredient can be added to a wide range of products to prevent separation in water and fat-based mixtures, to decrease surface tension and allow for enhanced dispersion of powders and liquids, or to prevent sticking to manufacturing surfaces.
Sunflower Lecithin
Sunflower lecithin is a non-GMO emulsifier that has become a popular choice for health-conscious consumers and food manufacturers alike. This versatile ingredient offers a clean and allergen-free alternative to traditional soy lecithin, while also offering additional health benefits associated with natural sunflower sources. Its ability to blend and stabilize ingredients makes it ideal for a variety of culinary applications, from creamy dressings and smooth chocolates to nutritious protein bars and beverages.
Fibers
Bamboo Fiber
Sourced from one of the world’s most rapidly renewable resources, our Bamboo Fiber is a sustainable, neutral-tasting powerhouse that excels as a natural texturizer, binder, and bulking agent, and is built to meet the surging consumer demand for high-fiber, reduced-carb, and gluten-free claims. The versatile functionality of Bamboo Fiber makes it an indispensable ingredient across numerous categories. It is the ideal, non-GMO fiber to help you achieve superior texture, water retention, and enhanced crumb structure in applications like baked goods, snacks, meat and meat alternatives, all while supporting digestive health trends and delivering the simple, clean label your customers desire.
Cellulose
Derived from the structural cell walls of plants, Scoular’s cellulose powder is an insoluble dietary fiber designed to elevate food formulations. This non-GMO ingredient offers exceptional versatility. It can serve as a thickening agent, bulking enhancer, and texture stabilizer across a wide range of applications including baked goods, meat products, dairy, and nutritional beverages. With its neutral taste, high fiber content, and availability in multiple micron lengths, cellulose can support satiety, digestive health, and sensory consistency, making it an ideal solution for brands seeking to enrich nutrition profiles while maintaining product integrity.
Chicory Root Fiber
Our Chicory Root Fiber, a form of inulin naturally sourced from chicory root, is a non-GMO ingredient and soluble dietary fiber that provides nutritional and functional benefits without affecting taste, texture, mouthfeel and consumers’ clean-label expectations.
Nature’s answer to rebalance the nutritional profile of your favorite food choices by boosting fiber content, replacing undesired sugars, and reducing excess fat, it’s easy-to-use in diverse applications.
Fructooligosaccharides (FOS)
Scoular’s organic Fructooligosaccharides (FOS) is a premium soluble dietary fiber ingredient designed to support digestive wellness, sugar reduction, and clean label formulation. With 90g of dietary fiber and a mild sweetness at approximately 50% of sucrose, FOS enhances texture, flavor release, and mouthfeel in a wide range of applications including bakery, bars, dairy, cereals, and fruit preparations. Its prebiotic properties promote gut health by stimulating beneficial bacteria, contributing to improved immunity and nutrient absorption.
FOS is non-GMO, vegan-friendly, and stable under heat and acidic conditions—making it ideal for functional foods targeting fiber enrichment, calorie reduction, and digestive support. Whether you’re formulating for keto-friendly snacks or fiber-fortified beverages, FOS delivers nutritional value and sensory appeal that align with today’s health-conscious consumer demands.
Oat Fiber
High in fiber and neutral in flavor and color, Oat Fiber is a near-zero calorie, insoluble dietary workhorse for food and beverage applications. A flagship use case for this non-GMO ingredient is to prevent breakage in cookies and crackers, while secondary applications include other baked goods, snacks, meat and meat alternatives where it can be used to improve water retention and provide the essential bulk needed for successful low-carb and high-fiber claims.
With a variety of offerings, including multiple lengths and options sourced from both the hull and from the kernel (groat), Scoular Food Innovation has the flexibility to worth with manufacturers to tailor solutions to your specific ingredient and business needs.
Polydextrose
Polydextrose is a multifunctional soluble fiber that brings both nutritional and sensory advantages to modern food formulations. Derived from non-GMO corn, it serves as a low-calorie bulking agent that can partially replace sugar and fat—preserving creaminess, texture, and mouthfeel in reduced-calorie applications. With its clean taste and prebiotic properties, polydextrose supports digestive health while enabling fiber enrichment across a wide range of products including baked goods, beverages, dairy, and nutritional supplements. Whether you’re formulating for sugar reduction, satiety, or clean label innovation, polydextrose offers a versatile solution that meets today’s consumer demands for healthier, functional foods.
Soluble Corn Fiber
Soluble corn fiber, also known as resistant dextrin, is a type of dietary fiber derived from corn starch. This non-GMO ingredient boasts over 90% fiber and less than 5% sugar, making it a game-changer for the overall nutritional profile of finished products. Soluble corn fiber can be used in various products with its excellent bulking properties, while rarely affecting the desired taste, all with a label-friendly name.
Tapioca Fiber
Unlock the next level of clean-label formulation with Scoular’s Tapioca Fiber. Also sometimes referred to as resistant dextrin, this highly versatile, non-GMO ingredient is the secret to slashing sugar and boosting dietary fiber while simultaneously delivering a superior, satisfying texture.
Whether you need an invisible prebiotic for gut health or a binding agent for your next low-sugar snack, our Tapioca Fiber provides the nutritional upgrade and functional performance your innovative products deserve. Its neutral flavor and exceptional solubility allow you to seamlessly fortify everything from protein bars and beverages to keto-friendly baked goods, delivering the enhanced nutrition and satisfying mouthfeel your customers crave.
Wheat Fiber
Wheat fiber is a neutral-tasting, highly concentrated source of insoluble dietary fiber obtained from the cell walls of the wheat plant. Recognized for its exceptional water and oil holding capacity, it serves as an effective bulking agent and texturizer, allowing for significant calorie and fat reduction in formulations. This is a popular ingredient used to boost the nutritional profile and improve the texture and mouthfeel in applications ranging from baked goods and pasta to meat and meat alternatives and cereals.
Food-Grade Seeds
Plant-Based Proteins
Brown Rice Protein
Scoular’s 80% Rice Protein is a protein powder made from non-GMO brown rice utilizing a highly consistent enzyme extraction method. Plant-based and allergen-friendly, it is a great alternative for those looking for protein supplement from a versatile and healthy source. Often combined with other plant-based proteins to create a complete protein profile, it is commonly used in RTM powders, nutrition bars, snacks, and more.
Chickpea Protein
Our 80% chickpea protein is a plant-based, high protein ingredient supporting clean-label, non-GMO and gluten-free innovations through functionality and nutrition. Suitable for a wide variety of applications with its neutral taste.
Mung Bean Protein
Mung Bean Protein is a clean label plant protein powder extracted from mung beans which is part of the legume family. The neutral color and flavor of this protein makes it suitable for a wide range of applications including beverage, bars, meat and dairy analogs, snacks, frozen desserts, and baked items.
Pea Protein
Scoular’s pea protein is a clean label plant protein powder made from yellow peas. Suitable for many different food applications, including bars, snacks, meat and meat alternatives, extruded crisps, pasta and more. Pea protein is also a highly functional and nutritious protein for pet food formulations, available as a concentrate or isolate.
Soy Protein Isolate
Scoular offers customized Soy Protein Isolate ingredients to meet specific functional metrics, including water holding and emulsification, nutritional markers for protein fortification, and sensory targets such as improved texture and mouthfeel.
Supported by manufacturer and supplier in-house research and development and applications teams, we can help you find the right solution fast and first.
Sweeteners & Starches
Allulose
Allulose is a rare sugar naturally found in fruits or crops and is known as the leading next-generation sweetener due to its sugar-like sweetness and almost zero calorie content. Offered in crystalline and syrup formats, this non-GMO ingredient, which is 70% as sweet as sugar, can offer a versatile solution for those looking to cut down on added sugars with the added benefits of low caloric content while maintaining a taste profile similar to sugar.
Maltodextrin
Maltodextrin is produced by enzymatic treatment of purified non-GMO corn or tapioca starch. Due to its clean, neutral taste and slight sweetness, it functions well as a carrier or bulking agent in a variety of food, confectionery and supplement applications.
Rice Syrup Solids
Naturally gluten-free, non-GMO, and organic, Scoular’s Rice Syrup Solids are ideal for brands targeting digestive wellness and clean label transparency. Obtained through an enzymatic process applied on the rice starch which results in a pale colored powder with a delicate and slight sweet flavor and taste, these solids can work in a number of edible products like candies, breads and bars to replace undesirable sugars such as Corn Syrup and HFCS. Whether you’re formulating for better-for-you snacks or performance-driven drinks, Rice Syrup Solids deliver health-forward label appeal without compromising taste.
The Latest Trends in Snacks
Consumers are seeking healthier snack options with more than half saying that they are willing to compromise on indulgence for healthier food. Protein is a leading health ask in the global snack market as 42% of global consumers say that it is the most important ingredient they look out for.
Brands are responding to this demand by creating indulgent snacks with added health benefits, such as those containing a protein boost, natural ingredients, reduced sugar, or added vitamins and minerals.
Source: Mintel
