Guar Gum for Food

The Naturally Sourced Solution

Elevate your food and beverages with a creamy, consistent mouthfeel, from naturally sourced and versatile texturant while maintaining label friendliness.

Extracted from the seeds of guar plant in a simple milling process, our broad Guar solutions make a wide variety of foods look and taste as they should, with no negative interactions with other ingredients.

Discover how IFF Guar Gum can help you create more appealing, uniform products.

From Field to Future

Through science and creativity, IFF works to develop sustainable solutions for a better world. A detailed Lifecycle Assessment Summary (LCA) study of GRINDSTED® Guar Gum was conducted to quantify the environmental impacts along its life cycle, from raw materials to finished products (cradle-to-gate).

In addition, our guar manufacturing site:

Is ISO 14001:2015 and food safety certified and SMETA audited
Maintain ethical and responsible business practices through our Sedex membership

Why Choose IFF Guar Gum?

IFF offers an extensive range of naturally sourced products with specialized technical support around the globe.

Consistent Quality & Safety

At IFF, quality and safety are the foundations of our supply chain. Our rigorous approach to sourcing and supplier management combined with high standard quality control on physical and microbiogical specifications & functional properties helps ensure consistency, compliance and confidence batch-to-batch.

Comprehensive quality screening includes testing for ethylene oxide (ETO), pentachlorophenol (PCP), mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOSH/MOAH), heavy metals, pesticides, allergens and other critical parameters.

Strong Expertise

Our leading Food & Beverages Application scientists are ready to create customer-specific solutions.

Their deep knowledge is not only in single ingredients but the combination with other products and hydrocolloids.

IFF solutions help producers create products with unmatched sensory experience, health benefits, and lessened environmental impact while optimizing costs.

Vast Applications

Our broad portfolio allows us to address all your needs spanning functionality, production efficiencies, cost-effectiveness, nutritional profile, and customized taste and color.

With eight times the thickening power of corn starch, guar controls viscosity and builds texture in food and beverages.

Explore some of the many applications of GRINDSTED® and MEYPRODOR® Guar including dressings, low/no fat mayonnaises, ice-creams, beverages, bakery, and plant-based dairy alternatives.

* GRINDSTED® Guar 200 Organic is Kosher and Halal certified.

* MEYPRODOR® is our Guar specialty range with neutral taste and odor, high-quality standard when faster hydration is required.

* PCP (Pentachlorophenol) and ETO (Ethylene oxide) are tested in the country of origin by accredited and approved labs.

IFF Guar Gum Applications

Bakery/Bars

Guar gum is a baker’s secret ingredient to fresh, healthy baked goods with the decadent textures customers crave.

Enjoy firmer gel structure for fillings and glazes and provide structure to gluten-free products. Reduce fat without compromising quality healthier product formulations.

Freezing and thawing stability will make your products keep great taste and texture over shelf-life. Biscuits, bread, buns, pastries, and more all benefit from guar’s versatile functionalities.

Beverages

With our naturally sourced and cold-soluble range of specialized guar gum, producers can leverage innovation in ready-to-drink and instant beverages, including fruit, dairy, and plant-based versions.

Our MEYPRODOR® portfolio features different viscosity ranges including low viscosity options, with neutral taste, smoother flow (less coating), faster hydration, and acid stability when compared to standard guar gum.

Culinary

Imagine creamy, flowing sauces, fruity ketchup, and no/low-fat mayonnaises. IFF can help you deliver smooth, stable textures with a neutral taste and no sliminess.

With MEYPRODOR®, a naturally sourced and cold-soluble range of specialized guar gum, producers can achieve a smooth mouthfeel and clean taste, while maintaining a stable texture over storage.

Our portfolio includes standard grades with different viscosity ranges for tailored textures for your culinary creations.

Dairy and Frozen Desserts

Dairy

From smooth sour cream to creamy plant-based ice cream, create dairy products with remarkable stability and textural integrity.

IFF Guar Gum prevents whey separation, improves mouthfeel adding creaminess, and ensures consistent performance in traditional and alternative/plant-based dairy formulations.

Fruit based products

Fruit

Ignite consumer’s senses with tasteful fruit-based fillings, sauces and spreads.

With IFF MEYPRODOR®, fruit prep producers can deliver desired functionality, whether it is about providing fruit suspension and syneresis control in dairy products and bakery fillings or a cream mouthfeel in fruit spreads.

Our guar’s neutral taste allows your spotlight flavors to shine in formulations.

IFF guar portfolio includes standard grades with different viscosity ranges for tailored textures for your fruit-based creations.

Pet Food

By managing viscosity, binding excess water, and improving extrusion, IFF Guar Gum enables the creation of more stable, appealing pet food, approved by owners and pets alike.

From dry treats to wet and semi-moist food, guar gum contributes to delivering nutritionally consistent and palatable meals.

GRINDSTED® Guar 80 -100 Feed Petfood is our newest feed grade product available.

* Check local regulatory compliance/authorization for use and dosages.
* IFF manufacturing sites certified to produce feed grade products.

Transform Ideas into Market-Ready Innovations

Bring your vision to life with IFF’s expertise in food and beverage innovation. Together, we can turn bold ideas into groundbreaking guar gum solutions.