Ingredion Incorporated

Ingredion Incorporated is a global ingredient solutions provider that transforms plant-based materials like grains, fruits, and vegetables into value-added ingredients for the food, beverage, animal nutrition, brewing, and industrial markets. The company develops, produces, and sells a variety of food and beverage ingredients, primarily starches and sweeteners, to customers in over 60 industries worldwide. Ingredion's products are primarily derived from processing corn and other starch-based materials such as tapioca, potato, peas, and rice. Its product lines include starches, sweeteners, animal feed products, and edible corn oil. Starch-based products encompass both food-grade and industrial starches, as well as biomaterials and non-GMO products. Sweetener products include glucose syrups, high maltose syrups, high fructose corn syrup, caramel color, dextrose, polyols, maltodextrins, glucose and syrup solids, high-intensity sweeteners, and various non-GMO products. Starches are used in processed foods for functions like adhesion, fat replacement, gelling, and texture. In non-food applications, the paper industry uses starches for strength and adhesion in corrugated boxes, while other industrial companies use them for improved printability and biochemical oxygen demand control. Industrial starches are also found in construction materials, textiles, adhesives, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, mining, and water filtration. Specialty industrial starches are utilized in biomaterial applications such as biodegradable plastics, fabric softeners, detergents, hair and skin care, surgical glove dusting powders, and in the production of glass fiber and insulation.