Fiberstar Inc is organized around improving food freshness and nutrition through technological innovation. The firm holds an exclusive worldwide license for bio-technology developed at the University of Minnesota that can improve the physical and functional characteristics of a wide variety of foods providing food manufacturers real solutions to maintain or improve taste, texture and mouth feel. Increasing customer awareness of health, as it relates to food, is providing new challenges including increasing fiber & whole grains, lowering saturated fat and calories and eliminating trans fats. Fiberstar has developed a unique and all natural array of fiber products made from fresh, wholesome oranges. These products can provide remarkable results in reducing trans fats, saturated fats, calories, and net carbs while increasing dietary fiber. The firms Citri-Fi product attracts and binds with exceptional levels of water (up to twelve times its own weight) making it an excellent tool for moisture management. In addition, Citri-Fi has the unique ability to mimic fats & oils in taste, mouthfeel and freshness. Citri-Fi works in bakery applications and other diverse applications as salad dressings, salsas, imitation cheese, yogurt, ice cream, meat fillings and frozen foods to bind or manage moisture and/or for fat reduction. In taste comparisons, bakery professionals chose Citri-Fi's reduced fat products over full-fat versions by a margin of 8 to 1. Furthermore, those same professionals almost unanimously ranked the Citri-Fi based products as "equal or better than" control.
