Sensus

About Sensus

Sensus is a food ingredients company focused on chicory root fiber, especially the branded ingredients Frutafit® inulin and Frutalose® oligofructose. It works with food manufacturers to help them create healthier, great-tasting products that meet consumer demand for natural, plant-based, and better-for-you foods and beverages.

The company positions itself as both a manufacturer and a specialist partner: it combines ingredient production with technical and scientific support for product development, marketing, and health-claim substantiation. Sensus is part of Royal Cosun, and its operations and sourcing are tied to a broader cooperative platform built around natural ingredients and plant-based solutions.

Core Values

• Health and wellbeing: The company’s mission centers on helping food manufacturers create healthier products and on contributing to consumer health through chicory inulin and oligofructose.
• Natural origin: Sensus emphasizes ingredients from natural origin and positions chicory root fiber as a natural, plant-based solution for modern food formulation.
• Taste and functionality: A recurring value theme is that healthier products should still taste great, so the ingredients are developed to support both nutrition and sensory quality.
• Sustainability and responsibility: Sensus presents sustainability as core to its policy, with attention to carbon footprint reduction, water use, green energy, raw-material efficiency, and sustainable chicory cultivation.
• Collaboration and expertise: The company highlights close work with customers, growers, research partners, and business partners as part of how it develops and markets its ingredients.

Unique Aspects

• Part of Royal Cosun: Sensus is part of Royal Cosun, a cooperative platform that gives it access to broader agricultural, processing, and innovation capabilities.
• Strong research base: The company has conducted extensive research on the nutritional and technical properties of chicory inulin, including digestive health, mineral bioavailability, immunity, metabolic health, and texture/taste performance.
• Scientifically supported health claims: Sensus notes that the blood glucose health claim for its ingredients was officially approved by the EU Commission in 2016.
• Global reach through partners: It serves international markets through production sites in the Netherlands, regional offices in North America and Asia, and a distribution network covering more than 45 countries.
• Sustainability credentials and operational measures: Sensus reports EcoVadis Gold status for three consecutive years and describes operational initiatives such as water reuse, biogas generation from process water, and efforts toward fossil-fuel-neutral processing.
• Grower partnerships and future-proof farming: The company works closely with chicory growers on yield improvement, fair pricing, and reduced environmental impact, including support for mechanical weed control and sustainable cultivation practices.