CALCIUM CASEINATE
WHAT IS CALCIUM CASEINATE?
Actus Nutrition’s calcium caseinate is a high-quality protein ingredient known for its excellent solubility and smooth texture, making it ideal for a variety of food and beverage applications. This versatile caseinate provides a rich source of protein while enhancing mouthfeel and stability, perfect for dairy products, soups, sauces, and nutrition formulations. Actus Nutrition’s calcium caseinate supports clean labeling and consistent performance, allowing product developers to create formulations with high nutritional value and appealing sensory qualities.
What applications can calcium caseinate be featured in?
Calcium caseinate offers many functional benefits to a variety of applications. Calcium caseinate is best utilized as a functional ingredient in baked goods, whipped toppings, confectionary items, ice cream, and dietary supplements. Calcium caseinate is a fairly soluble form of caseinate and lends itself to well to provide stability in foams. Calcium caseinate absorbs and emulsifies fats in applications which ensures a homogeneous product.
What are some product formulation considerations when using calcium caseinate?
Calcium caseinate displays decent solubility in solution but will have issues with dispersion when first adding the powder into the liquid component. Similar to sodium caseinate, other milk proteins can be used as either a nutritional fortification element and/or a functional component while calcium caseinate primarily functions as a functional component due to difficulties with dispersion.