DENMARK – Functional ingredient and sweetner specialist Danisco has launched a new enzyme aimed at the dairy industry.

Derived from seaweed, the hexose oxidose enzyme is known as HOX and can be used in the production of cheese.

Danisco has developed the enzyme after Biotechnological Institute discovered it two years ago. The Institute discovered that HOX would be useful as a food ingredient. However, the amount of HOX in seaweed is too low to use it for profitable production of the enzyme.

In a statement, Danisco business development specialist Leif Kj