Snacks
Our potato-based ingredients make healthy snacks delicious
Potatoes and snacks belong together. Avebe’s potato-based solutions reflect the full depth of that relationship. We have supplied the industry with high-quality ingredients for decades. Our latest innovations make the future both more delicious and healthier. Use SOLAN® flakes and granules for authentic potato taste, reliable forming and controlled expansion in crisps, pellets and formed snacks. Use ELIANE® to create light, crispy textures in baked snacks and expanded coatings. Or use PerfectaCOAT® to improve crispness and holding performance in fried, oven-baked and reheated coated products. We’ve got the ingredients to make snacks both healthy and delicious.
Products
Discover our solutions
ELIANE®
First choice for low-protein products
With ELIANE®, our ‘waxy’ potato starch, we offer an entirely new technique that enables the production of food products with unique properties in terms of functionality, texture, and expansion, as well as opportunities for cost savings.
SOLAN®
Premium potato flakes and granules with authentic taste and textures tailored to your needs
Solan® is Avebe’s range of premium potato flakes and granules, designed for manufacturers who want to deliver genuine potato character in their products. From smooth and creamy mashed potato to firm, crispy extruded snacks, Solan® provides versatile texture performance without compromising on taste.
PerfectaCOAT®
PerfectaCOAT® delivers long-lasting crispiness and optimal texture in fries and oven-baked products
PerfectaCOAT® delivers tailor-made, coating solutions for French fries and oven-baked coated products like nuts, designed to achieve best-in-class, long-lasting crispiness and on-demand expansion & texture.
Case studies
Solutions in practice
Make baked snacks crisp
A baked potato chip is healthier than its fried counterpart. Unfortunately, baked snacks have a persistent credibility problem. Consumers know that healthier alternatives deliver on that claim at the expense of taste and texture. Use ELIANE® to buck that trend. It produces low-fat sheeted snacks with a light, crispy texture.
A familiar flavour without the hard bite
Coated nuts are a high-margin snack format with a texture problem. The hard, dense shell that results from standard coating systems puts consumers off and limits repeat purchases. ELIANE® changes the equation. Its superior expansion and tack properties produce a thick, stable coating with a delicate, expanded texture. It allows you to make low-fat coated nuts with a familiar flavour, but none of the hard bite.
SOLAN® for crisps, pellets and formed snacks
SOLAN® flakes and granules provide authentic potato taste, reliable forming and controlled expansion in crisps, pellets and formed snacks. Their low reducing sugar content and a broad choice of particle sizes and bulk densities, SOLAN® delivers consistent performance in hot or cold processing and help manufacturers achieve stable colour, texture and crispness from batch to batch.
Crispness that holds through any heating method
One of the most persistent technical challenges in coated fries and snack foods is crispness retention. Products must perform perfectly in the fryer and keep their texture during delivery and reheating. Avebe’s potato-based ingredients enable superior water binding and coating adhesion. Coated fries and snacks keep their texture and perform consistently across oven, microwave and air fryer reheating. Our wide range of coating ingredients fulfil the requirements of many applications, from foodservice operators managing holding cabinets to retail ready-meal producers.
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Frequently asked questions
Excellent snacks require quality ingredients
From the potato flake base in a stackable crisp to the expansion starch in a coated nut or the coating system on a foodservice fry, Avebe’s snack ingredients cover the full production chain. Our application team is ready to work with you from first trial to commercial launch.
