Rice ingredients

Rice ingredients

From rice diversity to ingredient excellence

With over 44.000 rice varieties, each offering unique characteristics, selecting the right raw materials is essential to ensure consistent quality and performance.

Rice ingredients provide clean-label solutions for thickening, texturizing, water binding, gelling, coating, fat replacement, and nutritional enhancement.

With production facilities in Europe, the US, and Asia, Ebro Ingredients is the world's leading manufacturer of rice flours, starches, and specialty rice-based ingredients for diverse food applications.

Rice, Broken Rice and Paddy Rice

Paddy rice, milled into white and brown rice, yields broken kernels as a side stream for food and pet food.

Rice Flours

Our premium rice flours deliver exceptional versatility, clean-label appeal, and superior texture, helping food manufacturers create outstanding products.

Rice Starches

Our high-performance rice starches deliver outstanding functionality, clean-label performance, and consistent texture, enabling superior product quality across applications.

Rice Bran

Rice bran combines nutrition, functionality, and sustainability, enabling manufacturers to create distinctive, value-driven food & feed products.

Rice Pearls

Our unique rice pearls provide outstanding puffing performance and crunchy textures, supporting innovative, healthier snack concepts worldwide.

What are rice ingredients?

Rice ingredients are functional ingredients derived from rice, including rice flours, rice starches, rice bran and rice pellets. They are used in food production to improve texture, stability, processability and nutritional profiles across a wide range of applications. Rice ingredients can support clean-label, gluten-free and allergen-friendly product development.

Why use rice ingredients in food formulations?

Rice ingredients offer multiple functional benefits, including thickening, water binding, gelling, texturizing, coating and fat replacement. Their neutral taste and colour allow formulators to enhance product performance without affecting flavour. They are widely used in bakery, snacks, dairy alternatives, sauces, nutritional products and prepared foods.

Are rice ingredients naturally gluten-free?

Yes. Rice is naturally gluten-free and is one of the most widely used ingredients in gluten-free food development. Rice ingredients can help create products with good texture, stability and consumer-friendly labels while avoiding common allergens associated with wheat-based ingredients.

In which applications can rice ingredients be used?

Rice ingredients are highly versatile and can be used in bakery products, snacks, coatings, sauces, soups, dairy alternatives, speciality nutrition, infant nutrition, protein products, pet food, dry blends and many other food applications. Different rice ingredient families provide specific benefits depending on the processing requirements and target product characteristics.

The benefits of Rice

Rice is an easily digestible ingredient, making it a favorite in all sorts of diets. For industries as well, rice is a popular ingredient.

It is appreciated in various food processing industries such as infant nutrition, sports nutrition and medical nutrition, for its essential macro- and micronutrients, its fat mimetic effects and its gel texture.