Surimi - Lycored - Nutrients, Colors & Taste

Expertise

Overview

Before we take a bite of food, we’ve already eaten with our eyes; making color a highly important factor for foods like surimi, that can convey freshness and premium quality with bright and enticing red and orange shades. Thankfully, our range of superstable colors provide rich, consistent hues proven to withstand the stressful processing conditions involved in surimi production.

Benefits

Harvesting Possibilities

Naturally derived from lycopene and Beta-carotene, our portfolio not only provides superior stability when put to the test against typical colorants used in surimi like carmine, paprika, annatto, titanium dioxide, monascus red and artificial colors, but is also certified Kosher and Halal, opening the opportunity to reach a section of consumers looking for coloration options that are more label and dietary friendly.

Shown in our stability study, OrangeOvation, ResilientRed and ConstantCrimson outperform other alternatives with minimal migration and maintained color consistency, allowing for a shelf life extension in the chiller cabinet by 60+ days and promoting a visually enticing product that suggests freshness and premium ingredients.

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LYCOPENE BASED HUES

Adding value to your surimi seafood

Natural Lycopene extracted from tomatoes provides natural, vegan red color.
Highly stable under a wide range of pH, ascorbic acid and high-temperature conditions.
Can extend your product shelf life in the chiller cabinet (by 60+ days).
Achieves a higher quality white mass wihtout migrated color using a non-animal derived source, eliminating the need to use chemicals to keep color from bleeding.
Certified Kosher and Halal. Appeals to additional consumers that are currently unreachable with most used color sources.
Potential new marketing positioning in new associations with premium and flavorful shellfish targeting retail and foodservice or other institutional channels.

BETA-CAROTENE BASED HUES

Adding value to your surimi seafood

Natural Beta-carotene extracted from Blakeslea trispora offers a spectrum of natural, vegan, yellow, gold and orange shades.
Highly stable under a wide range of pH ascorbic acid and high-temperature conditions.
Can extend your product shelf life in the chiller cabinet (by 60+ days).
Achieves a higher quality white mass without migrated color using a non-animal derived source, eliminating the need to use chemicals to keep colors from bleeding.
Certified Kosher and Halal. Appeals to additional consumers that are currently unreachable with most used color sources.
Potential new marketing positioning in new associations with premium flavorful shellfish targeting relail and foodservice or other instituional channels.

Lycopene based hues
Beta-carotene based hues

Get the Scoop.

We’re always pushing the boundaries of our coloration portfolio.
Check out what the press has to say about a few of our projects below.

“The trial demonstrates that using Lycored colours can add a minimum of 30 days’ chiller cabinet life under accelerated-type conditions. In real terms, this equates to at least two to three months. Furthermore, they allow manufacturers to avoid the use of chemicals to prevent bleeding.”
— New Food Magazine
“Recognizing a gap in the market for a safe, natural solution for surimi’s unique, vivid red color, LycoRed developed innovative tomato lycopene formulations that maintain perfect stability during the surimi production process as well as through the entire product shelf life.”
— New Hope Network

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Surimi shades that are quite the catch