Nexira has developed a wide range of premium and organic ingredients with nutritional benefits, and exceptional technological properties (emulsifiers, stabilizers, texturizers, coating/encapsulating agents…). From acacia fiber, locust bean gum or guar specialties to nutrient-dense superfood powders and active botanical extracts, Nexira’s solutions meet consumers’ expectations for taste, texture, and sensory experience in clean label and organic products.
Very early in its history, Nexira began to focus its scientific research on the nutritional benefits of acacia as a native source of soluble dietary fiber. With a minimum of 90% fiber content guaranteed on dry weight, acacia fiber is the ideal clean label ingredient for fiber fortification.
Numerous studies have been performed and the acacia prebiotic effect has been largely demonstrated. Nexira has developed different references with specific benefits, such as synergies with Baobab fiber. Our range of fibers, available in organic grade, is easy to use in a large array of nutritional applications to formulate healthy, natural and organic products.
Functional beverages
With the increased attention on the health benefits of the ingredients in beverages, consumers want to address their overall wellbeing with clean label drinks that combine convenience and on-the-go usability. Nexira’s raw materials are carefully selected and gently processed to fulfill your needs (taste, color, solubility, clarity). From nutrient-dense superfoods and flavorful botanical plant extracts for nutritional enrichment, to ingredients with functional properties such as bringing texture or reducing sugar, Nexira’s solutions meet consumers’ expectations for sensory experience.
Nexira answers the key challenges for manufacturers of plant-based products, including the provision of clean-label and sustainable options, targeting simple ingredients, minimal processing, and optimization of taste and textural experiences. Our broad portfolio of nature-derived functional ingredients is perfectly suited to add thickening, stabilizing, binding and mouthfeel improvements as well as nutritional benefits to vegan/vegetarian food products, from meat substitutes to dairy alternatives. Whatever your goals, Nexira gives you the expertise and ingredients you need to deliver great-tasting plant-based products with clean-label options.
Bakery, snacks and cereals is a growing market where acacia gum provides multiple advantages due to its technological and nutritional functions. Nexira's team has developed a complete range of natural ingredients to enhance the overall profile of your products. Our complete range of natural ingredients derived from acacia gum, locust bean gum, guar gum, tara gum & botanical extracts are the perfect solution to improve texture, extend shelf life, reduce sugar content and enhance the nutritional profile of your snacks and cereal products.
The exceptional emulsifying & texturizing properties of acacia, locust bean, guar and tara gums will enable you to create creamy, silky sauces and dressings. Nexira’s solutions can also help create delicious and unique fruit preparations and desserts with natural and organic ingredients.
Nexira’s experts and ingredient solutions can help you create delicious dairy and ice cream products with superior texture and mouthfeel. Our unique ingredient portfolio offers outstanding technological properties to cover a broad spectrum of manufacturers' expectations: cheese creaminess or spreadability, ice cream cristal control, clean label alternatives or fat content reduction… We can help with natural and organic solutions.
Discover the solutions offered by Acacia gum, Locust bean Gum, Guar Gum and Tara Gum for a wide range of applications in confectionery, as a texturing agent and a film-forming agent. Nexira’s solutions easily work with sugarless formulations and help with cleaner labels.
Complementarity of Carob & Acacia fibers
Boosted microbiota diversity
Carbon neutral, organic
inavea™ CAROB & ACACIA is an all-natural and complementary formulation of Carob and Acacia fibers, bringing respectively galactomannan and arabinogalactan polysaccharides.
Acacia and Carob are sustainably sourced in Africa and Mediterranean countries and organic certified. inavea™ CAROB & ACACIA provides a high fiber content and prebiotic activities leading to a boosted microbiome diversity.
In a recent ex vivo study mimicking the intestinal system, acacia and carob fibers alone have demonstrated significant prebiotic activities. At the equivalent of 5g/day, inavea™ CAROB & ACACIA has shown a prebiotic effect and a complementarity on microbiota diversity.
To empower a healthier microbiome, this new reference boosts the microbiota diversity, ie the number of different species of bacteria in the gut microbiome. Evaluated by the CMS, an innovative Community Modulation Score, the microbiota diversity has been improved by inavea™ CAROB & ACACIA with more than 29 species being promoted.
inavea™ CAROB & ACACIA has demonstrated a microbiota modulation with the promotion of beneficial bacteria and Short Chain Fatty Acids. Thanks to the different structure of acacia and carob fibers, inavea™ carob & acacia offers a full spectrum fermentation, acting across the entire intestine.
inavea TM CAROB & ACACIA is ideal to fortify nutritional powders, functional snacks and shots.
100 % all-natural & appealing combination
Acacia and carob are confirmed dietary fibers by the FDA
Carbon neutral footprint, organic
Inavea™ BAOBAB ACACIA is an all-natural and organic synergistic formulation of Baobab & Acacia, two African treasures with a unique sustainability commitment. inavea™ BAOBAB ACACIA offers a proven prebiotic effect at 5g/d which contribute to the balance of microflora for enhanced digestive health and general well-being.
Baobab pulp and Acacia have been traditionally consumed for centuries for their wide range of nutritional and medicinal properties. Nexira’s new proprietary study, using the SHIME® model[1], has demonstrated for the first time the prebiotic effects of Baobab at 10g/d and the synergistic prebiotic effect of inavea™ BAOBAB ACACIA at 5g/d.
Learn about our involvement in the sustainable development and preservation of the natural baobab and acacia materials we source. inavea™ has proudly achieved carbon neutrality, ensuring a real reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and many co-benefits for both local communities and the environment. Learn more about Nexira’s whole carbon neutrality approach.
Performing formulation, inavea™ BAOBAB ACACIA acts as a friendly microflora regulator effective in creating, restoring and sustaining the beneficial balance. Our proprietary scientific study has demonstrated the complementary & significant prebiotic activities of inavea™ BAOBAB ACACIA.
The study has also demonstrated a gradual fermentation across the entire intestine, i.e. a full spectrum gut fermentation. inavea™ BAOBAB ACACIA is suitable for a low FODMAP diet.
inavea™ BAOBAB ACACIA health benefits are multiple:
• Balanced microbiota to boost beneficial bacteria
• Enhanced digestive health
• Supported metabolic health with modulation of oxidative
and inflammatory markers
100 % all-natural & appealing combination
Subtle flavor of Baobab, slightly tangy with fruity notes
Low hygroscopicity
High nutrient content
Carbon neutral footprint
As the world leader in acacia, we are aware of our responsibility. inavea TM is the first premium brand of organic and sustainable ingredients preserving natural resources, supporting local communities and offering a carbon neutral footprint.
inaveaTM PURE ACACIA is an all-natural, organic and GMO-free prebiotic ingredient sourced from carefully selected acacia trees. inavea TM PURE ACACIA offers a unique sustainable commitment and the value of high digestive tolerance for fiber enrichment* and prebiotic properties in a large array of applications.
inavea™ has proudly achieved carbon neutrality, ensuring a real reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and many co-benefits for both local communities and the environment. Learn more about Nexira’s whole carbon neutrality approach.
We are proud to announce that inavea™ has been selected as a finalist of the 2021 World Food Innovation Awards in the Sustainability category.
inavea TM PURE ACACIA is the ideal clean label ingredient for fiber fortification* and prebiotic claims.
Prebiotic effect of acacia fiber has been largely demonstrated for 40 years in more than 40 studies. inavea TM PURE ACACIA has a strong prebiotic effect at a dose of 10 g/day, stimulating healthy bacteria and contributing to the Short Chain Fatty Acids production.
Our latest study, using the SHIME model, has demonstrated an increase of microbiota diversity (healthy marker) thanks to our prebiotic acacia intake.
Previous studies have demonstrated that inaveaTM PURE ACACIA helps to restore the gut barrier.
inavea TM PURE ACACIA offers the value of a clean label in addition to the consumer appeal of 100% vegetable origin and fiber enrichment.
inavea TM PURE ACACIA offers distinctive and proven health benefits for all nutritional foods & beverages
Only Organic grade available
GMO-free
Carbon neutral footprint
Manufactured in France
100 % soluble / good dispersibility
Odorless / colorless / tasteless
Low viscosity / low hygroscopicity
Low-carb / low caloric value
Excellent stability to extreme process storage conditions
acacia gum
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emulsifier emulsion, encapsulation
Eficacia TM is a special quality of naturally purified and instantized acacia gum.
Preparing a stable flavor emulsion for beverages firstly requires excellent raw materials and a thorough knowledge to obtain long-lasting stability. Thanks to strong partnerships in acacia gum producing countries, Nexira guarantees the highest quality of acacia gum through careful selection of raw material and gentle manufacturing process.
Nexira’s highly skilled R&D team has the perfect knowledge to achieve stable and eco-friendly emulsions.
Eficacia TM is a naturally purified and instantized grade of acacia gum with the highest emulsifying properties; it is obtained through an innovative proprietary process.
Eficacia TM has been designed for various applications in food industry.
Instantized and dust-free, Eficacia TM dissolves easily, allowing quick and clean processing with:
Manufactured in France
Operation costs reduction
Easy-to-use and energy-saving during the process
Low viscosity
Excellent stability to pH, alcohol, even in presence of synthetic colors
Natural, GMO-free
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Efistab TM is a complete line of all-natural and sulfite-free acacia gum products designed to enhance the overall quality of wine.
Efistab TM is available as purified, odorless and tasteless white powders that are ready to use and instantly dissolved in wine.
It is a protective, all natural hydrocolloid that is able to chelate and stabilize metals in wine avoiding copper and iron haze.
Efistab TM shows unrivalled performance in preventing precipitation of tartrate crystals.
Management of tannins by the winemaker is critical to the wine’s attributes. Efistab TM complexes the polyphenols in red wine and prevents them from interacting, polymerizing and precipitating. As a result, astringency is significantly reduced and color is stabilized and enhanced.
Efistab TM improves wine’s roundness and softness by reducing the acidity in white wines treated with tartaric acid and by masking the potentially aggressive and harsh effect of tannins in young red wines.
Efistab TM is a natural ingredient suitable with awide range of applications.
Organic grade available
Manufactured in France
Reduces astringency
Color stabilizer
Easy-to-use before and after filtration
In compliance with International Oenological Codex
Easy to store
Ultimate performance in protection of sensitive components
Excellent flavor protection, stability and optimized shelf life
Amazing encapsulation properties
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Encapcia TM is an all-natural protective solution for sensitive compounds from acacia gum.
Encapsulation by spray drying is certainly the best value technique for protecting sensitive components from degradation and for converting oil soluble liquids into water-dispersible powders.
Nexira offers a complete range of all-natural acacia gum with exceptional film-forming and emulsifying properties. Our range ensures superior protection over time compared to modified starches or other chemical alternatives.
Encapcia TM is a combination of high-quality grade of natural acacia gums, obtained by a specific and innovative technological process. It is ideal for flavor and color applications as an encapsulating agent.
Encapcia TM is specifically designed for the encapsulation of highly delicate components, such as vitamins, natural colors or polyunsaturated fatty acids. Encapcia TM extends the stability of emulsions before spray-drying or when oil loads higher than 25% are required.
Manufactured in France
Particularly effective for sensitive encapsulations (highly concentrated natural colors, vitamins and nutraceuticals)
Excellent flavor protection, stability and optimized shelf life
Cost reduction due to its high degree of functionality
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Reduces fat & sugar content
Preserves organoleptic properties
Fortifies in fibers
Equacia TM is a co-processed ingredient made of soluble acacia gum fibers* and gluten-free insoluble wheat fibers.
Equacia TM is a nutritional texturizer specially designed to reduce fats and sugar content while preserving organoleptic properties and fortifying food products with fibers.
To obtain a smooth texture, Equacia TM doesn’t need any thermic treatment nor mechanical activation. Equacia TM enables to get smoothness immediately after water dissolution. Equacia TM stand up to a wide range of pH, temperature and process conditions.
Equacia TM can be used for food & beverage formulations. Depending on the application, Equacia TM has various benefits for your final product.
Natural ingredient with exceptional organoleptic and nutritional properties
Source of soluble and insoluble fibers
Natural and vegetable fat substitute
Ready-to-use texturizer
Extends shelf life
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Floracia TM is a synergy of from acacia and fructo-oligosaccharide.
Floracia TM is a result of a synergistic combination of two dietary fibers: long-chain acacia polysaccharides and short-chain fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS).
The FOS are soluble fibers used in the ascending colon by bifidobacteria, compared to acacia which is fermented in the transverse and descending colon. This specific combination delivers a higher prebiotic effect compared to FOS or acacia gum taken separately. Indeed, this improves intestinal transit, stimulates the immune system.
Obtained through an innovative co-drying process, Floracia TM is slightly sweet, non-viscous and highly soluble perfectly suitable for many applications.
Easy-to-use
Free flowing powder
Lower hygroscopicity and better stability to acidic media
Suitable for a fiber enrichment*
Purified & instantized grades of selected natural acacia gum
Organic instant soluble powder
Quick hydration
Dust free
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emulsifier emulsion texturizer
Organic Instant soluble powder
Quick hydration
Dust free
Instantgum TM is a full range of purified and instantized selected acacia gum for diverse functional use.
Instantgum TM is a range of high-quality acacia gum, purified, instantized and specially selected to develop for many functionalities. Depending on the origin and variety of the acacia gum used, Instantgum TM offers specific properties. The ingredient is available in organic grade.
Instantgum TM can be used in a wide range of applications.
Organic grade available
Manufactured in France
Excellent flavor protection, optimized stability and shelf life
Granulated powder guaranteed dust-free for better dissolution at room temperature
Suitable for a wide range of functionalities
All-natural acacia gum
stabilizer for challenging food emulsion
Outstanding emulsion properties
Optimized stabilizer
100% all natural acacia gum
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emulsifier
Outstanding emulsion properties
Optimized stabilizer
100% all natural acacia gum
In the beverage, flavor and color industry a good emulsification is often the key to the success.
Superstab TM, is an all-natural acacia gum designed to emulsify and stabilize all types of oil in water emulsions for beverages and flavors. Superstab TM, is a unique emulsifier made from an innovative and proprietary process with specific raw material screening and preparation.
SuperStab TM offers specific properties depending on its origin and variety.
SuperStab TM is a functional ingredient useful for various food industry applications.
Clean label
Manufactured in France
Operating costs reduction by 3
Easy-to-use
Compatible with all types of ingredients
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emulsifier, emulsion
Nexira offers its Thixogum TM range of all-natural hydrocolloids to optimize the texture and organoleptic experience of your products while meeting the expectations of consumers looking for naturalness and plant-based ingredients.
NEW ! Thixogum TM G, the ideal clean-label stabilizer for vegetable drinks
Plant-based drink formulations can be challenging due to the need to emulsify and stabilize fat, suspend insoluble particles (pulp, minerals, proteins…), and build texture/mouthfeel.
Thixogum TM G is the high performance union of a natural emulsifier (acacia gum) and a natural stabilizer (gellan). It ensures the successful development of plant-based beverages, and fulfills consumers’ expectations for appealing taste & texture.
Thanks to its suspensoïd properties, Thixogum TM G is able to stabilize insoluble ingredients with minimal impact to viscosity. It is a perfect stabilizer for dairy alternatives. It can be used in beverages made up of insoluble compounds to suspend particles such as in fruit juices to maintain a homogenous suspension of fruit pulp.
Thixogum TM G won the World Beverage Innovation Awards 2019.
Judges declared that Thixogum TM G is “an essential innovation for the growing vegetable drinks market” and “A complete solution for vegetable drinks”.
With their distinctive properties, our Thixogum TM solutions are dedicated to a large array of applications.
Natural texturizers and stabilizers
Easy-to-use
Instantly dispersible
Neutral in taste, odor and color
Fluid and dust-free powder for optimal use in both liquid and dry mixtures
Synergistic ready-to-use association
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All-natural prebiotic acacia
High Digestive tolerance
Clean label & easy-to-use
Fibregum TM is an all-natural and GMO-free prebiotic ingredient. Fibregum TM offers the value of a clean label in addition to the consumer appeal of 100% vegetable origin and fiber enrichment.
Nexira guarantees the highest quality of acacia gum thanks to its continuous presence in Africa for over 125 years and strong partnerships in acacia gum producing countries.
Fibregum TM is obtained from carefully selected acacia gum sap exuded from the stems and branches of acacia trees. Fibregum TM offers a guaranteed minimum of 90% soluble fiber* on a dry weight basis.
Fibregum TM is a non-digestible, high molecular weight polysaccharide. It is composed of a proteinaceous core and associated polysaccharidic fractions.
Fibregum TM exerts a high intestinal tolerance with excellent digestive properties
Nexira’s study has demonstrated that the following complementary activities may help for a complete reinforcement of the gut barrier:
Prebiotic effect
Gut impermeability restoration
Fibregum TM is a non-digestible carbohydrate with a glycemic index close to zero.
A diet rich in soluble dietary fiber such as Fibregum TMmay help to extend the feeling of fullness after meals, for a healthy control of bodyweight.
In the human mouth, Fibregum TM resists to hydrolysis by saliva and the local flora making it non cariogenic (maintenance of tooth mineralization).
Manufactured in France
GMO-free and gluten-free
Odorless, colorless and tasteless in solution
Low viscosity & low hygroscopicity enabling high fiber claim
Great stability through extreme process / storage conditions
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Coatingum TM is a natural gum acacia for gumming.
With our acacia gum expertise, we developed a wide range of products derived from acacia gum to meet with the process demand. Coatingum TM is mainly designed for a coating agent use in confectionery application.
Coatingum TM is a full range of purified high quality acacia gum with different standardized mesh sizes. This product line is specifically designed for the pre-coating and coating of centers, such as nuts, almonds or chocolate in the production of panned candies.
During the gumming process, Coatingum TM creates a film around the core which improves the mechanical stability of the coating and the thermo-resistance of the center. It lends a delicate crunchy but resistant texture to the finished product. Coatingum TM’s film forming, binding and drying properties are unrivaled.
Coatingum TM is a natural ingredient mainly used in
Manufactured in France
Complete range
Ensures a longer shelf-life for the finished product
Ready to use
Acerola is traditionally used in Brazil to support energy and vitality. This ingredient is a natural superfood, rich in vitamin C.
Particularly rich in vitamin C, did you know there is 40 to 100 times more vitamin C in a glass of acerola juice than in a glass of orange juice?
Sourced in Brazil and carefully selected through a long-term supply chain partnership, our growing range of acerola extracts (Malpighia glabra L.) is manufactured in France in our own factory using a gentle process (water extraction and spray-drying in fine powder) to preserve the high vitamin C content.
Thanks to its high content of Vitamin C, acerola offers a large array of benefits:
Supports energy & vitality
Helps the immune system for body protection
Protects cells from oxidative damage
Considered as a superfruit
Baobab is referred to as the new valuable “Superfruit” for uses in Foods, Beverages and Dietary Supplements based on its unique nutritional profile.
With more than 120 years of roots in Africa, Nexira continues to branch out and present with its latest Organic Superfruit Powder. Our production of Baobab Pulp Powder uses only the fruit; so the trees themselves are undamaged. Thanks to our strong supplier partnerships, we only select the highest quality Baobab for our customers. Our Baobab Pulp Powder is all-natural, organic certified, minimally processed & perfectly suitable for clean labeling.
Scientific studies have highlighted the high nutritional content of baobab fruit pulp:
A considerable content of nutrients including fiber, minerals and vitamins1,2
Greater antioxidant activity than other superfruits such as: mango, orange, pomegranate, kiwi, bilberry, etc3,4,5
Nexira’s Baobab fruit pulp guarantees 45% fiber content.*
As a pure powder, Nexira’s Baobab is perfectly suitable with Clean Label. Nexira’s Organic Baobab Powder is compliant with authorized Novel Food ingredient and meets FDA GRAS status for Baobab dried fruit pulp.
Baobab is a natural ingredient used in functional Food & Beverage and food supplements.
Nexira’s Baobab Pulp Powder has a subtle flavor. With its slightly tangy taste and fruity notes, our Organic Baobab Pulp Powder will be perfect to pep up yogurts, ice-creams, chocolates, cereal bars, beverages, smoothies,… Request your application bulletin!
Guarana is a climbing liana with small red fruits found wild in the Amazon rain forest.
Legend holds that the guarana plant with black seeds surrounded with a white fruit pulp, comes from the eyes of little Indian who was sacrificed by the God of Darkness.
Sourced in Brazil, our growing range of Guarana extracts (9300Paullinia cupana Kunth) is all-natural, available in standardized range from 1% to 22% of caffeine.
Extracts are manufactured in France in our own factory using a gentle process (water extraction and spray-drying) to preserve the high caffeine content. With a caffeine content 3 times higher than coffee, Guarana is the best natural energy booster!
Thanks to its high content of caffeine, Guarana has many properties:
Evidence of longstanding use for fatigue and sensation of weakness
Contributes to improve physical and sport performance
Fat burner (increased thermogenesis), helps stave off hunger
Supports alertness, reduces mental fatigue
Guarana is a natural ingredient used in food (especially in soft drinks, energy drinks & sports nutritional products) and in food supplements.
Manufactured in France
Clean Label solution for natural caffeine enrichment
Suitable for vegetarian and vegan diets
Kosher Certified
Native color
hydrocolloïds
Encapsulation agent
Stabilizer for colloidal systems
Texturizer in sugar and polyol mediums
Binder for sugar and polyol-compressed products
Emulsifier for oil in water emulsions
fiber
prebiotic
