Natural Emulsifier & Natural Stabilizer
FlaxSmooth® Soluble Flaxseed Fiber
FlaxSmooth® Powder is a natural emulsifier and stabilizer — a clean-label 100% flaxseed fine mesh powder produced from agglomerated vegetable fibre derived from the mucilage of flaxseed (Linum usitatissimum L.). Completely natural, non-GMO, allergen-free and produced in a nut-free plant. Used across all food, pharma and beverage applications.
FlaxSmooth® delivers outstanding gelling, emulsification, thickening, foam stabilisation, suspension and binding performance — replacing synthetic gums, stabilisers and modified starches such as xanthan, carrageenan, CMC, guar gum and E1450 with a single clean-label ingredient. It is an excellent egg replacer, suited for both hot and cold processes, and is tolerant to heat, salts, pH, minerals and phosphates. No heat activation is required.
Declared simply as “Flaxseed Fiber” or “Vegetable Fiber,” FlaxSmooth® is a clean-label single-ingredient solution used at low dosage rates (0.3–2%) across baked goods, ice cream and gelato, beverages and smallgoods. It is gluten-free, vegan, Halal and Kosher certified, FSSC 22000 certified, with a 24-month shelf life.
Product Specification
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Product Type | Natural emulsifier & stabilizer |
| Source | 100% flaxseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) |
| Form | Free-flowing powder |
| Appearance | Whitish, neutral odour |
| Dietary Fiber | 76 g / 100 g |
| pH | 5.5 – 7.5 |
| Moisture | < 8.0% |
| Dosage | 0.3 – 2% (by application) |
| Label Declaration | Flaxseed Fiber / Vegetable Fiber |
| Shelf Life | 24 months |
| Storage | Cool, dry place; away from heat & light |
| Certifications | FSSC 22000, Non-GMO, Gluten-Free, Halal, Kosher, Vegan |
Certifications
- FSSC 22000
- Halal
- Kosher
- Non-GMO
- Gluten Free
- Clean Label
- Vegan
Why FlaxSmooth®?
- Superior Stabilizing Properties: Ensures consistency and prolongs shelf life in products like emulsions, dairy alternatives, and beverages by preventing separation and maintaining homogeneity.
- Effective Gelling Agent: Provides structure and improves the texture of food products such as jams, jellies, and puddings, enhancing consumer enjoyment.
- Efficient Emulsification: Creates stable water-in-oil and oil-in-water emulsions, crucial for high-quality dressings, sauces, and other emulsion-based culinary delights.
- Outstanding Foaming Ability: Facilitates the creation of stable foams for products requiring aeration, including meringues, mousses, and whipped toppings, contributing to their lightness and volume.
- Powerful Thickening Capability: Thickens soups, sauces, gravies, and other liquid-based foods, boosting their mouthfeel and overall sensory appeal.
- Reliable Binding Strength: Improves cohesiveness in meat substitutes, veggie burgers, and baked goods, ensuring structural integrity and texture.
- High Water Binding Properties: Can help to stabilize foams and oil-in-water emulsions, significantly enhancing the texture and stability of a wide range of products.
- Innovative Fat Replacement: Acts as a fat replacer in low-fat or reduced-calorie foods, allowing for texture and mouthfeel preservation without unnecessary fats.
- Versatile Egg Replacement: Provides a vegan and allergy-friendly egg substitute, leveraging its gelling, foaming, and emulsion stabilization properties for diverse formulations.
- Superior Suspending Applications: Enhances the suspension of particulates in beverages and sauces, ensuring even distribution and consistency throughout.
- Natural Hydrocolloid Replacement: Can replace gums and hydrocolloids in various applications, offering a clean, natural alternative for thickening, stabilizing, and emulsifying.
FlaxSmooth® is setting a new standard in food formulation, balancing the needs for natural, clean-label ingredients with unmatched functionality in the food industry. It addresses the modern consumer’s desire for nutritious, allergen-free, and environmentally sustainable food options, enabling manufacturers to craft products that are not only innovative and delicious but also ethically and responsibly made.
- Clean label: As a natural, plant-based ingredient, FlaxSMOOTH® aligns with consumer preferences for clean label, transparent, and minimally processed products.
- Allergen-free: It is free from common allergens such as gluten, soy, and dairy, making it suitable for individuals with food allergies or sensitivities.
- Non-GMO: FlaxSMOOTH® is derived from non-GMO flaxseeds, catering to consumers seeking non-genetically modified products.
- Vegan-friendly: Its plant-based origin and ability to replace eggs in various formulations make FlaxSMOOTH® an ideal ingredient for vegan food products.
- Versatility: Its unique properties, such as emulsification, stabilization, gelling, and foaming, make FlaxSMOOTH® suitable for a wide range of applications within the food industry.
- Sustainability: The use of FlaxSMOOTH® promotes sustainable agriculture and reduces the dependence on environmentally harmful synthetic additives.
- Enhanced texture: Its gelling, thickening, and binding properties improve the texture and mouthfeel of various food products.
- Moisture retention: FlaxSMOOTH® maintains the freshness and extends the shelf life of food products by retaining moisture.
Fat and egg replacement: It can be used as a fat or egg replacer in low-fat, reduced-calorie, or vegan food products without compromising texture or mouthfeel.
- Easy incorporation: FlaxSMOOTH® comes in a powder form that is easily dispersible and can be seamlessly incorporated into various formulations.
- Bakery & Gluten-Free Baked Goods: Improves structure, texture and mouthfeel in breads, cakes, muffins, cookies and gluten-free baked goods, while acting as an egg replacer for cohesiveness.
- Dairy & Dairy Alternatives: Stabilises ice cream, gelato, frozen desserts, yoghurt, puddings and plant-based milks — controlling texture and preventing separation.
- Meat & Meat Alternatives: Binds and improves texture in smallgoods, plant-based burgers, sausages and meat substitutes, delivering a meat-like mouthfeel.
- Dressings, Sauces & Condiments: Emulsifies and thickens mayonnaise, salad dressings, sauces and gravies — replacing gums and modified starches with a single clean-label ingredient.
- Beverages: Suspends particulates and adds body in smoothies, protein shakes and nutritional drinks, for both dairy and plant-based formats.
- Jams, Jellies & Spreads: Provides gelling and structure in fruit preserves, jams, jellies and nut or seed butters.
- Snacks & Confectionery: Binds and textures energy bars, protein bars, crackers, gummies and marshmallow.
- Soups & Broths: Thickens and stabilises cream-based soups, broths, bisques and gravies.
Replaces Multiple Gums
One clean-label ingredient replaces xanthan, carrageenan, CMC, guar gum and modified starch (E1450).
No Heat Activation
Fully functional without heat activation — tolerant to heat, salts, pH, minerals and phosphates.
Egg Replacement
An excellent plant-based egg replacer for both hot and cold processes.
Functions
Applications
Packaging Options
| Product Name | Pack Sizes |
|---|---|
| FlaxSmooth® Powder | 20kg Bag |
FlaxSmooth® Natural Emulsifier & Natural Stabilizer (bulk/B2B supplier)
Availability (bulk/B2B) in the following countries: United States • United Kingdom • Australia
Specs • Samples • Technical support
Frequently Asked Questions
What is FlaxSmooth®?
FlaxSmooth® is a flaxseed-based stabilizer and emulsifier that also functions as an egg replacement and hydrocolloid alternative. It is extracted using proprietary technology developed by Nexus Ingredient. FlaxSmooth® is a clean label 100% flaxseed fine mesh powder. FlaxSmooth® is completely natural and has not undergone any chemical or genetically modified processes.
What is FlaxSmooth® made of?
FlaxSmooth® is composed of 100% agglomerated vegetable fiber from flaxseeds (linseeds), extracted from natural sources without chemical modifications or novel ingredients.
What are the key features of FlaxSmooth®?
FlaxSmooth® is an easily soluble and dispersible powder that acts as a stabilizer with excellent gelling, thickening, foaming, suspension, and emulsifying properties. It forms gels with superior thickening abilities, firms up foams during whipping for long-term stability, suspends particles like powders or fruit fibers, and creates elastic films for emulsions to reduce oil droplet collisions. It requires no heat activation for viscosity, achieves high viscosity levels (e.g., 4200 at 70°C under test conditions), and shows only slight viscosity reduction under high-pressure homogenization. It also provides stable air-bubble entrapment for enhanced stabilizing effects.
What's the advantage of using FlaxSmooth®?
At the same dosage levels, FlaxSmooth® allows you to remove all gums, stabilizers, and emulsifiers in your ingredient list and enables consumer-friendly label. On top of that, FlaxSmooth® is extremely effective flaxseed fiber that impressively improves the texture of your product.
FlaxSmooth® has a high gelling performance and is often used to replace guar gum in flat breads, binder applications, and replaces gums in ice cream & beverages, as well as replacers stabilizers in smallgoods, dried pasta and in baked goods.
How is FlaxSmooth® labeled?
FlaxSmooth® is labelled as Flaxseed Fiber or Vegetable Fiber.
What are the main benefits of using FlaxSmooth®?
FlaxSmooth® serves as a clean-label alternative to conventional hydrocolloids, additives, and stabilizers like locust bean gum, guar gum, xanthan gum, CMC, carrageenan, inulin, citrus fiber, and modified starches. It enhances texture, mouthfeel, and stability in various products, such as providing full-bodied mouthfeel in reduced-sugar beverages, stabilizing foams in whipped eggs, and maintaining suspension in drinks. It improves flavor perception by enhancing pleasant notes, offers high tolerance to low (acidic) pH, and supports clean taste without impacting product stability. Additionally, it enables egg reduction, additive replacement for cleaner labels, and maintains product integrity under accelerated shelf-life tests.
Where is FlaxSmooth® supplied?
We supply bulk B2B to customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
In what applications can FlaxSmooth® be used?
FlaxSmooth® is versatile and can replace conventional hydrocolloids in applications where stabilizers and thickeners are needed. Key examples include gelato, ice cream, frozen desserts, sorbets, and icicles (for clean-label stabilization and additive replacement); smoothies, drinks, and ice tea (as a natural thickener and suspending agent for fruit pulp stability and full body in reduced-sugar formulations); whipped eggs and patisserie (for foam stabilization); egg mayonnaise (replacing gums and starches for clean-label emulsions); tomato sauce and pizza toppings (additive replacement with no differences in texture or application performance); batter mixes (for egg-like functionality); bakery products; smallgoods; sauces and dressings; and plant-based products. It is suitable for both dairy and plant-based formulations.
How should FlaxSmooth® be used in formulations?
FlaxSmooth® is added as a powder at dosages that vary by application, generally from 0.3% to 2%. For example, higher levels around 4.5% can be used in tomato sauce to replace multiple gums (guar, CMC, locust bean, xanthan), while lower levels suit thickening and stabilization. It disperses easily without heat activation, handles high-pressure homogenization with minimal impact, and works well in acidic conditions (e.g., pH 3.3 in ice tea). Please email info@nexusingredient.com for usage recommendations.
What is the shelf life and labeling for FlaxSmooth®?
FlaxSmooth® has a shelf life of 24 months at ambient temperature, and it maintains stability in formulations under accelerated shelf-life tests (e.g., in mayonnaise). It can be labelled as "Flaxseed Fiber" or "Vegetable Fiber" for clean, natural ingredient lists.
How does FlaxSmooth® compare to synthetic gums, stabilizers, and emulsifiers?
FlaxSmooth® provides equivalent or superior functionality to synthetic options like guar gum, xanthan gum, CMC, locust bean gum, carrageenan, and modified starches, often at comparable or adjusted dosages (e.g., 4.5% replaces a combination of 0.92% guar, 1.30% CMC, 0.34% locust bean, and 0.23% xanthan in tomato sauce). It offers better clean-label appeal, natural origin, and no differences in texture, stability, or flavor when applied (e.g., in pizza toppings or mayonnaise). Unlike some additives, it enhances whipping properties similarly to carrageenan and provides synergistic effects without multiple ingredients.
Does FlaxSmooth® support sustainability or health trends?
Yes. Sourced from flaxseed (linseed), FlaxSmooth® offers a natural alternative to synthetic additives and multiple hydrocolloids, reducing the complexity of ingredient labels while promoting cleaner, more transparent formulations. It contributes to improved mouthfeel and stability in reduced-sugar, gluten-free and plant-based products, aligning with consumer demand for natural, functional and sustainable ingredients.
I want to launch a keto/diet/health bar, what are the best functional ingredients to help achieve it?
Many brands use our ingredients to achieve higher health ratings and to achieve the brand claims, whilst driving functionally and quality.
If you are aiming to create a type of keto/diet/health bar, we recommend the following -
- For your bar's bulk/body, Fiberworks® or MetaSweet®, commonly used from 10% to 30% of the bar.
- Now moving onto further improving on the functionality and eating quality of the bar, CapMoist® is really a stellar multi-functional product in your application. You would use approx. 2-5% approximately.
- Another amazing product is FlaxSmooth® powder, it contains zero sugar and the dosage is approx. 0.4%.