Our High-Quality Sugar Solutions
Sugars are a fundamental component of animal nutrition, delivering quick and easily accessible energy to support growth, health, and productivity in livestock.
Beyond their basic nutritional value, high-quality sugars serve multiple important functions in animal feeds. Their rapid digestibility makes them a preferred energy source for young animals with still-developing digestive systems.
In addition, sugars can enhance the flavor and texture of feed, encouraging higher intake and better overall growth performance.
Sugars can also serve as carriers or stabilizers in feed mixtures, expanding their utility in a variety of formulations
Our Expertise
Advances in modern breeding and production practices have raised the standards for animal feed, with greater emphasis than ever before on formulation that is highly digestible, palatable, and completely safe.
As a result, the selection of high-quality sugars has become an important consideration for feed manufacturers who want to give young animals, in particular, the best possible start in life.
Whether for newborn piglets, calves, or other rapidly growing animals, incorporating premium sugars into feeds helps optimize nutrient absorption and fosters robust development from the earliest stages.
As a leader in carbohydrate solutions, we understand that the choice of high-quality carbohydrate sources is more important than ever to meet the nutritional and health requirements of high-performing animals.
High-quality sugars offer essential energy, palatability, and functionality in feed formulations, playing a key role in meeting both animals’ nutritional needs and the exacting standards of today’s market.
Roquette is leading the European market:
#2 for Dextrose
#1 for Maltodextrin
We understand the importance of selecting the right sugar sources, including highly refined options like dextrose, to meet the specific needs of modern livestock production. Discover our comprehensive range of carbohydrate solutions designed to address these demands:
- Roquette Dextrose (Monohydrate and Anhydrous): For quick energy release, stable formulations, and optimal digestibility.
- GLUCIDEX® Maltodextrins: A versatile energy sources with excellent solubility and a balance of sweetness and technical performance.
- Roquette Glucose Syrups: Delivering sweetness, texture, and process stability across a variety of formulations.
- TACKIDEX® Glucose Molasses: Enhancing palatability and supporting functional needs in specialized applications.
These ingredients are essential to formulate animal nutrition products that align with both nutritional needs and the well-being of animals.
Our Dextrose range
(monohydrate and anhydrous)
Roquette’s dextrose products are composed of purified and crystallized D-glucose derived from the hydrolysis of cereal starch. As a highly absorbable and immediately available energy source, dextrose supports the energy requirements of feed formulations without necessitating the action of specific digestive enzymes, unlike lactose or sucrose. Its rapid assimilation ensures digestive safety, while its natural sweetening power enhances the palatability of animal feeds. Available in both classical monohydrate and anhydrous forms, our dextrose is a carrier in soluble premixes, with the anhydrous variant providing additional resistance to caking.
Our Maltodextrins
As the European leader in maltodextrin production, we provide maltodextrins, widely recognized for their quality in both human and animal nutrition. In animal feeds, they offer a highly digestible and efficient source of energy, with proven digestibility in piglets comparable to lactose. Beyond their nutritional value, maltodextrins like GLUCIDEX® serve diverse functional roles: as a carrier in premixes and spray drying, a viscosity enhancer, a binding agent, and a shining agent for kibble coatings.
Our Glucose syrups
Roquette Glucose Syrups are purified and concentrated aqueous solutions of nutritive saccharides obtained through hydrolysis of starch. They offer both nutritional benefits, such as supporting energy needs in applications like bee feeding, and functional advantages, including their use as humectants, texturizers, binders, and shiny coatings in feed manufacturing.
Our Glucose molasses
TACKIDEX® is a range of syrup products rich in sugars and oligosaccharides, produced from refined hydrolyzed starch dextrin. It provides nutritional energy and serves important functional roles as a binder or carrier in various animal nutrition applications.