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Our Experience

AAK specialises in the plant-based oils that are the value-adding ingredients in many of the products that people love to consume. Everything we do is about Making Better Happen™ in close collaboration with our customers and partners.

We use over 150 years' experience to make our ingredients better tasting, healthier and more sustainable. We collaborate with many of the best-known brands in the chocolate and confectionery, bakery, dairy, plant-base foods, special nutrition, and personal care sectors.

Our Expertise

Bakery

Fat is a key ingredient in many bakery products delivering, for example, aeration, texture, flavour, shortness and shelf life. Fat content typically ranges from a few percentages in bread, to around 30% in puff pastry and filling creams.

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Bakery

Bread and mourning goods

Our bakery fats, release agents and other ingredients, developed over years of working with bakeries, will help you to achieve great loaves and other bread products.  The correct type of fat can help greatly with loaf volume, crumb texture and shelf life.  The correct release agents and divider oils also ensure problem free production with perfect tin and band release every time. 

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Bread / Morning Goods

Chocolate Confectionary

Chocolate and confectionery is an incredibly creative sector, constantly evolving to create new flavours and formats, whether it is a chocolate bar seeking a shiny glossy finish and snap, or a luscious, filled praline or a creamy coating for a cake or biscuit.

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Chocolate & Confectionery

Dairy and ice cream

Many dairy and ice cream products can be produced where some, or all, of the milk fat is replaced by vegetable fat.  This might be done for reasons of cost, saturated fat content or functionality. AAK dairy technology provides solutions for end products such as: 

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Dairy & Ice cream

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We having a saying ‘It’s the Fat that makes Food Fabulous’. There has been tremendous research into a huge variety of proteins to make plant based food, but it is sometimes forgotten that taste, succulence and flavour delivery in meat or dairy products is mainly from the fat, and not the protein!

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Plant-based foods

Personal care

Skin care, hair care, cosmetics and personal care product manufacturers need, above all, a reliable and consistent supply of high-performing, sustainably-sourced ingredients.

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Personal Care

Soups and sauces

Most supermarkets offer a wide variety of mixes and concentrates for soups and sauces. Many are powdered products – ready to cook after the addition of water. With a long shelf life, they are popular and easy to use.

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Soups and sauces

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The UK diet is too high in ingredients negative to health, yet deficient in those essential to good health.  AAK can help redress this balance.

We can work with you to reduce fat, saturated fat, sugar and calories, but also provide positive nutrition.

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Special Nutrition

Animal nutrition

Vegetable oils and fats and their by-products are used for animal feed in significant quantities. The main reason for feeding oils and fats to animals is their nutritional value, but there may also be technical reasons relating to feed production.

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Animal Nutrition

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