Hazelnut Paste

Hazelnut Paste

Hazelnut paste is a premium natural nut butter delivering intense roasted hazelnut flavor, superior spreadability, and high monounsaturated fat profile that enhances mouthfeel, carries chocolate/nut synergies, and provides clean-label fat functionality across formulations. In the food industry, it offers excellent emulsion stability, heat resistance up to 40°C without oil separation, and versatile flavor binding ideal for confectionery, bakery fillings, and ice cream inclusions with authentic hazelnut character.

Food Industry Applications

• Confectionery: Forms creamy praline centers, chocolate hazelnut spreads, and truffle ganaches with optimal fat crystallization for smooth melting at 32-34°C, excellent temper stability preventing bloom, and 12-month shelf life without rancidity or texture breakdown.

• Bakery products: Fills croissants, donuts, muffins, and layered cakes providing moisture barrier against fruit fillings, uniform flavor distribution during high-speed mixing, heat stability through baking at 180-200°C, and tender crumb enhancement without greasiness.

• Ice cream and frozen desserts: Creates premium variegates and inclusions maintaining scoopable texture through freeze-thaw cycles, prevents ice crystal interference via fat emulsification, delivers sustained flavor release below -18°C storage, and clean meltdown without oil pooling.

• Beverages: Emulsifies into frappes, milkshakes, and plant-based lattes forming stable suspensions without ring formation, heat tolerance during UHT processing at 85°C, and balanced nutty profile complementing coffee or chocolate bases.

• Dairy products: Swirls into yogurts, custard fillings, and cream cheeses delivering fat perception in reduced-fat formulations, protein compatibility preventing curdling, and controlled viscosity for spoonable fruit-nut layers.

• Snacks and spreads: Bases premium nut butters, energy bars, and wafer creams with natural thickening from nut proteins, oil binding capacity preventing free fat migration, and roast flavor activation during extrusion or coating processes.

Other Industry Applications

In cosmetics, nourishes as emollient in body creams, lip balms, and hair masks; in personal care, conditions in shampoos and exfoliating scrubs; in industrial uses, produces nut oils for fragrances.