CitraFiber™ is ideal for breads, cookies, meat additives, salad dressings, cheese, soups, thickeners, batters, beverages and much, much more.
Fiber
Over 80% fiber -23% Soluble and 57% insoluble
Antioxidants
Nearly twice the antioxidant level of bluberry - 11,500 uM Trolx Equiv/100g
Pectin
High methoxil petcin 29g/100g, highly activated
GRAS approved
Kosher Certified
Gluten Free
100% Natural - no chemicals added
What Independent Experts are Saying About CitraFiber™
“This (CitraFiber) is a major finding…the increased dough and bread weight indicate increased bread yield and therefore increase profit for the baker.” (2009)
Dr. Rebecca Miller
Ph.D., Director, Kansas Wheat Quality Lab, Department of Grain Science. Kansas State University.
Beverage Applications
Nutritional additive
Real “juice” labeling qualification
Food Applications:
Dough extender
Batters
Meat Additives
“Cure” applications (ham)
Egg replacement
Power/Energy bar
Soups
Salad dressings
Muffins
Cheese
Pet Applications:
Kitty litter
Pet bedding
Pet food
Irreversible gum application (for canned pet food)
Nutraceutical Applications:
Antioxidant benefits
Fiber benefits
Citrus bioflavonoid benefits
Industrial Applications:
Toxic metal removal from waste water
Oil spill absorbent (household/commercial)
Gulf Oil Spill absorbent (boom inserted oil spill recovery product)
About CitraFiber™
CitraFiber™ is the result of 30 years of research including two patents and one pending patent. CitraFiber™ is a high-fiber, 100% natural, gluten free, antioxidants rich, functional food ingredient made from 100% citrus peel. Our patented, unique production process is chemical free, generates no VOC’s (volatile organic compounds), no toxic wasterwater and is completely food grade.
Tests, reports and findings associated with our product include:
Baking Research
Research Reports from Dr. Rebecca Miller, Ph.D., Director, Kansas Wheat Quality Lab, Department of Grain Science, Kansas State University. Dr. Miller conducted extensive tests on CitraFiber’s features and benefits related to pan bread, gluten free bread, hamburger buns, pizza crust and sponge and dough tests.
Waste Water Treatment Applications
Scientific Paper: Chemical Engineering Journal, Volume 146, Issue 2, February 1, 2009, ISSN 1385-8947. Article entitled, “Biosorption of Pb2+ by original and protonated citrus peels: Equilibrium, kinetics, and mechanism”, by Silke Schiewer, Ph.D., and Ankit Balaria, Ph.D., Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Antioxidant Report
Antioxidant levels are measured through an Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) Test. The company’s lab report from Covance Labs shows the CitraFiber™ ORAC value at 11,500 uM Trolox Equiv/100g.
This compares to the following:
Apples: 3,859 uM Trolox Equiv/100g
Bananas: 879 uM Trolox Equiv/100g
Blueberries: 6,520 uM Trolox Equiv/100g
Fiber and Nutritional Report
The National Food Laboratory provides a complete and comprehensive report of the nutritional and fiber content of CitraFiber™. This report substantiates claims associated with Fiber content, bioflavonoid content and more.
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
This report provides the safety summary for CitraFiber and defines the various attributes of the product.
CitraFiber™ is Kosher Certified
CitraFiber™ is GRAS approved
About Us
Natural Citrus Products Corporation (NCPC) was organized in 2007 to implement and commercialize 30 years of research and development of unique technologies associated with the processing of fruits, vegetables and other organic biomass. The valuable extracts developed by NCPC’s technologies have immediate commercial value in a variety of identified industries. Additionally, the NCPC patented process enhances the environment by reducing and/or eliminating toxic pollutants associated with citrus peel mitigation, making it the only "green" citrus peel process.
Prior to the introduction of the NCPC process, conventional methods of eliminating plant biomass by-products (particularly citrus peel) involved burning or landfill dumping which are extremely harmful to the environment. Additional processes have been introduced, such as cattle feed peel pellets, which are more costly to produce than their commercial resale value.
NCPC has perfected a method to extract over five valuable food grade components from the discarded citrus “peel” material. Specifically:
citrus peel oil (also known as “cold press“ oil and d’limonene);
food grade sugar (high quality 60 degree brix) and/or;
“cloud” sugar used in beverage production;
CitraFiber™, the remaining product after the oil/sugar extraction with numerous food and beverage applications;
citrus seeds, a great product for spices and cancer research applications.
Until the introduction of NCPC’s new citrus peel recovery technology, no process existed to cost-effectively and efficiently remove the highly valuable residual by-products which remained in the discarded citrus peel.