TEXTURECEL™
With a wide range of uses in multiple food and drink market segments, TEXTURECEL™ solutions are affordable and sustainable.
Stability & Sustainability
For over 50 years, IFF produced carboxymethylcellulose (CMC or cellulose gum) used as a stabilizer/texturizer in multiple food and beverage markets segments. IFF’s CMC brands, TEXTURECEL™ and CLEAR+STABLE™, prevent ingredient separation while being tasteless and odorless.
As consumers call for healthier products, our CMC solutions can even help reduce sugar and fat in dairy products and sweet desserts.
Our experts have created tailored solutions to a variety of products and needs.
- Derived from wood pulp, IFF cellulose gum is free of allergens, vegetarian/vegan, Kosher, and Halal.
- IFF’s dedicated CMC production site is ISO 14001 and 50001 certified, and our raw materials come from FSC-certified suppliers.
Two Powerful Celluloses
CLEAR+STABLE™
For beverages like clear juices, ready-to-drink (RTD) tea, and white wine, CLEAR+STABLE™ provides pinpointed stabilizer/texturizer solutions.
360° CMC Solutions
IFF is a one-stop shop for production, quality control, sustainability life cycle assessments, and safety processes.
Tailored Solutions
With a broad range of viscosities, degree of substitution (DS), and granulometry, IFF’s CMC can be customized to product needs.
Solubility
Our solutions are soluble in specific environments: insoluble in pure organic solvents, water-soluble at any temperature, and soluble in mixtures of short-chain alcohols and water.
Stability
Our compounds demonstrate exceptional stability across a broad pH range (pH 3.5–12), ensuring consistent performance in diverse formulations.
High Quality & Quantity
With a 99.5% purity level, IFF’s CMC solutions consistently meet the highest quality standards. Customers also benefit from harvest-independent sourcing—no seasonality—ensuring year-round availability and dependable production capacity for uninterrupted supply.
Rheology & Flow Behavior
IFF CMCs deliver smooth hot-fill processing with reversible viscosity—thinning at high temperatures for easy pumping and returning to full thickness when cooled for perfect texture and mouthfeel.
Sensorial Appeal
Being tasteless and odorless, our solutions provide the desired results without interfering with sensorial appeal. Clear and transparent options are available in water formulations, providing a unique appearance.
Enhanced Formulation
Our carboxymethylcellulose has three features that contribute to superior formulations: high surface tension with less foaming formation, excellent water-binding properties, and compatibility with other hydrocolloids.
IFF CMC Applications
Dairy
Dairy
IFF CMC solutions help manufacturers create differentiated dairy products by texture, stability, and shelf-life through thickening, stabilizing foams and suspensions, and enabling fat, sugar, and protein replacement.
They also slow crystallization and improve freeze–thaw performance in frozen dairy applications.
