Dive Brief:
- Specialty ingredients manufacturer Cereal Ingredients Inc. of Leavenworth, Kansas, is investing $12 million to expand its facilities — about 81,000 square feet devoted to warehousing, maintenance, and production.
- Cereal Ingredients produces food particulates specially formulated to meet specific client needs, in a variety of sizes, flavors, and texture. Flav-R-Bites add flavor, texture, and color to baked goods and ready-to-eat cereals and can also be used in nutritional foods, ice cream, streusel, and other toppings and crunches.
- Cereal Ingredients also produces Nutri-Bites and Nutri-Crisps, which offer additional nutrition, such as more protein, fiber, vitamins, and minerals. The company holds multiple worldwide product and process patents and exports its products to 19 countries.
Dive Insight:
"Unlike most fat-based or sugar-based particles, our Flav-R-Bites and Nutri-Bites stand up to heat, moisture and even extended exposure to the hot-moist processing environments particularly common to the baking industry," according to executive vice president Jim Thomasson.
Because Cereal Ingredients offers such a variety of formulations — non-trans fat, GMO, non-GMO, gluten-free, and organic — the company's market can include a wide range of food manufacturers. Also, all products are certified for food purity, and most are certified Kosher/Parve, with others certified Kosher/Dairy or produced under Halal, the Islamic certification.