Lecithins: The Next Generation

Delight consumers with exceptional foods, beverages, and supplements made with our extensive portfolio of fluid, powdered, and fractionated lecithins. We meticulously source soybean, sunflower, and rapeseed from a global network of dedicated farmers, then transform these crops into high-quality lecithin across our operational footprint spanning four continents, ensuring consistent quality and reliable supply worldwide.


 

Lecithin Portfolio

Elevate your formulations with our diverse range of fluid and powdered lecithins across our BungeMAxx and Solec brands. Made from soybean, sunflower, and rapeseed, our extensive portfolio ensures you can select from standardized fluids to fractionated powders and everything in between. Each option is designed to meet your most demanding and specialized application needs.

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SOLEC

Bowl of Raw Soy Beans
Soybean Lecithin

Discover our comprehensive portfolio, offering fluid, powdered, and fractionated lecithins derived from soybeans for your diverse needs.

Bowl of Sunflower Seeds
Sunflower Lecithin

Explore our wide selection of fluid and powdered lecithins made from sunflower, providing versatile solutions for various applications

Bowl of Rapeseed Seeds
Rapeseed Lecithin

Uncover our extensive array of rapeseed lecithins, featuring a wide range of fluid and powdered options to meet your specific requirements

Standard Soy Lecithin
Standardized Fluid Lecithin

Choose from a range of standardized fluid lecithins from unbleached to transparent and clear for high visual clarity.

Sprayable Soy Lecithin
Sprayable Fluid Lecithin

Explore our sprayable fluid lecithins that are lower in viscosity for easier handling in mixing and sprayable applications.

Water Dispersible Soy Lecithin
Water Dispersible Lecithin

Select among various enzymatically enhanced lecithins designed to easily mix and disperse in aqueous solution.

Infant Grade Soy Lecithin
Infant Grade Lecithin

This offering undergoes rigorous purity, safety, and quality standards, making it suitable for use in infant formula and other foods designed for very young children.

Fractionated Soy Lecithin Powder
Fractionated Powder & Fluid Lecithin

Designed to be high in the active phospholipid phosphatidylcholine and endowed with increased water dispersibility, available in both powder and fluid formats.

Deoiled Soy Lecithin Powder
Deoiled Powder Lecithin

Available in free-flowing powder or granular form, it provides excellent stability, easy handling, and precise dosing for more efficient operational performance.

Lecithin Applications

Enhance protein, improve texture, and boost efficiency across a wide range of foods and beverages with our soy protein concentrates and isolates. We help you overcome application challenges, accelerating your ideas from concept to commercial scale with our expertise and technologies.

Chocolate Confection
Confectionery

Deliver exceptional sensory experience while improving production performance and saving on formulation costs by using lecithin to replace a portion of cocoa butter in your favorite recipes.

Stack of Waffles with Butter and Syrup
Bakery

Use lecithin to help extend freshness, promote a fine and uniformly aerated crumb structure for desirable softness and springiness, and improve machinability.

Plant-Based Puffed Snacks
Snacks

Lecithin can help you do so much with snacks: enhance softness in snack bars, emulsify oils in binding syrups, improve cracker sheeting, reduce dough stickiness for more efficient snack extrusion, and so much more.

Spreading Cream Cheese on a Bagel
Dairy & Spreads

Leverage lecithin to achieve a consistent, smooth texture and uniform appearance, while also minimizing spattering across a wide range of dairy and plant-based spreads and cooking fats.

French Fry being Dipped in Sauce
Sauces

Enhancing the overall sensory experience of sauces, lecithin contributes to a more even texture and aesthetic quality and helps reduce spattering during cooking.

Coconut and Chocolate Flavored Soy Protein Based Drink and Nutrition Bars
Drinks & Nutrition

Lecithin provides RTD beverages with a creamier texture, richer mouthfeel, and uniform visual appeal. In RTM products, it acts as a wetting agent, coating powder particles to improve dispersion and mixing.

Aerial View of Many Soups in Cans
Canned Foods

Whether you are making fish in mustard sauce, pate, or creamy soup, lecithin can help keep the oil and water phases from separating, delivering a cohesive texture and appearance, even through retort processing.

Plate of Mortadella Sausage
Processed Meats

From bologna to mortadella to Vienna sausage and more, lecithin helps create a final product that is visually homogenous and texturally smooth contributing to a deliciously satisfying bite and mouthfeel.

Supplement Gel Capsule
Supplements

Lecithin emulsifies fats and water in supplements. As well, our fractionated lecithin concentrates phosphatidylcholine and can contribute to boosting the choline content of supplements. Choline is a vital precursor to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.

Our Lecithin Production Footprint

Supply Resiliency

As a leading global lecithin producer, our operational footprint spans North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. With approximately 20 state-of-the-art facilities, we don't just offer unmatched scale; we provide unparalleled supply security. This means a consistent, reliable source of lecithin for you, regardless of global location, seasonal variations, or geopolitical shifts. Partner with us and feel the confidence to grow your business and brands, backed by our comprehensive coverage across soy, sunflower, and rapeseed lecithin.

Farmers Walking Through a Soy Field

Sustainable Sourcing

Our lecithin portfolio stands out through its commitment to transparency and localized sourcing. We partner directly with a trusted network of local farmers, ensuring that our soybeans, sunflower, and rapeseed are typically grown within close proximity to our production facilities. This direct relationship fosters accountability and provides a clear, traceable supply chain. Furthermore, our supply includes soybeans, sunflower, and rapeseed grown using regenerative agriculture practices, such as no-till farming, cover cropping, crop rotation, and nutrient management. This holistic approach contributes to enhancing soil health and biodiversity but can also reduce the environmental footprint of our ingredients. By choosing our lecithins, you can gain a powerful advantage in achieving your sustainability objectives, from carbon reduction to messaging on the use of regenerative agriculture.

Bunge Scientist Working

Breakthrough Innovation

At Bunge, we don't just solve problems—we empower your innovation. We fuse unparalleled expertise with cutting-edge technologies to conquer your most demanding application challenges, whether you're launching a groundbreaking new product or optimizing an existing one. Our elite team of food scientists, visionary research chefs, and ingredient specialists are dedicated to understanding your unique needs. They then leverage our state-of-the-art research facility, featuring advanced pilot plants for meat, bakery, and beverages, analytical equipment, and leading sensory laboratories, to create robust, market-ready solutions. Let us transform your ambitious food and beverage concepts from idea into commercial success.