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Benexia Defatted Chia Flour

Upgrade your branded Product to a Functional Food or Beverage

Add Benexia™ Defatted Chia Flour to your product and boost its health benefits with a relevant quantity of Fibre, Antioxidants, Proteins, Omega-3, & essential Minerals!

Characteristics:

Light nutty taste, odourless, highly soluble, with oxidative stability, easy to add to your recipes without altering its taste.

Effects on your product:

-Significantly lowers the Glycemic Index (GI) of the final product
-High Organic Molecules Absorption Capacity (OMAC)
-Maintains digestive health
5% of BeneXia Defatted Chia added to your product grant in a 100g portion of your final product :
*more than 0,2g of Omega-3 ALA
*more than 3g of Fibre
*1,5g of Protein
*a high percentage of Antioxidants and Minerals.

Labelling:

GMO Free, Kosher, Gluten Free

Quality Certifications:

Full Traceability, guarantee for a 99.9% purity, GAP, GMP, HACCP Certifications (Det Norske Veritas)

Marketing Concepts & Related Claims / Labelling Suggestions for your Product:

We believe that an adequate communication is as important as adding health benefits to a food or drink product.

Benexia ™ is the right partner to help the food industry develop tailor-made marketing concepts and enable food producers to position their product effectively and legally on the market.

All Benexia ™ claims :
-are based on solid scientific data
-are positive, convincing and straightforward
-support clear and credible health messages.

Creating an attractive and healthy product is the first part of the whole process. Seducing consumers with a clear positioning and understanding of your product is the second part of the process.

Fortunately, Benexia’s numerous health benefits will enable you to choose the claim and the approach that best suits your product

Target Groups:

Nutritional Supplement for:  (is it really a supplement???)
Children, Pregnant women, Healthy adults and Elderly People

Highly recommended / Adapted for:
Vegetarians, Diabetes and Celiacs

People with:
Hypertension, Bowel/ intestinal disease, Irritable Colon , Constipation , Hyper cholesterol and Weight Management problems.

Aplications:

Towards successful applications

Benexia™ benefits of an extensive experience in hugely successful product applications.
Benexia™ ingredients can be used in many different product categories such as for example:
Baked Goods
Cereal Bars
Bread
Dietary Supplements
Breakfast Cereals.

Benexia’s R&D team works together with the food industry to help food developers determine the right way to use our ingredients in their application, understand how ingredients behave and what their advantages are. Please contact us if you like more information about an application file.

International Regulations:

When referring to the health benefits or nutritional properties of foods on packaging, local regulations have to be respected, as the use and exact wording of claims may change from country to country.

Benexia’s team offers experience and guidance, and works together with each market to ensure the local regulatory requirements are followed and carefully respected.

Nutritional Content and Benefits

Discover the amazingly rich nutritional content of the Defatted Chia Flour

62% of the Total Fat is Omega-3!

54% of Total Dietetic Fibre (2% soluble, 52% insoluble)

29% of HBV Protein (High Biologic Value). Contains all the essential amino acid (81,97g in 100g of Protein). Gluten Free.

More than 20% DVA of essential Minerals like Magnesium, Calcium, Potassium, Iron and Phosphorus.

8074 μm /TE ORAC in 100g

400% Water Retention Capacity

Nutritional Facts

Calories (Kcal) 184
Protein (g) 29,3
Total Fat (g) 7,0
Saturated Fat (g) 0,8
Trans Fat (g) 0
Monounsaturated Fat (g) 0,6
Polyunsaturated Fat (g) 5,6
Omega-3 (ALA) (g) 4,1
Omega-6 (Linoleic Acid) (g) 1,5
Cholesterol (mg) 0
Carbohydrates (g) 1,0
Total Dietary Fibre (g) 53,6
Soluble (g) 1,5
Insoluble (g) 52,1
Sodium (mg) 1,1
Potasium (mg) 1070
Calcium (mg) 890
Iron (mg) ?
Phosphorus (mg) 1130
Magnesium (mg) 570
Zinc (mg) ?
Antioxidants
Total Polyphenols (mg GAE)
528
ORAC units (μm/TE) 8074

International Regulations:

When referring to the health benefits or nutritional properties of foods on packaging, local regulations have to be respected, as the use and exact wording of claims may change from country to country.
Benexia’s team offers experience and guidance, and works together with each market to ensure the local regulatory requirements are followed and carefully respected.

Benexia™, is a brand of Functional Products Trading S.A. that stands for a range of high quality products elaborated from the chia (Salvia Hispanica L.) seeds produced by selected farmers in South America. All Benexia™ products aim at developing a healthier diet, under scientific control, and bringing all the benefits of the chia to the consumers in a reliable and sustainable way of doing business.

Functional Products Trading S.A.
Avda. Luis Pasteur Nº 5.850, Oficina 303
Vitacura – Santiago – Chile
Tel: (+56 2) 378 60 91
Fax: (+56 2) 953 69 68