Colors That Melt with Quality

Color plays a crucial role in margarines, spreads and oils, influencing consumer perception. A rich, golden yellow hue mimics butter, enhancing the product’s visual appeal and making it more appetizing. Consistent color also helps maintain brand identity and ensures product uniformity, reinforcing quality expectations for consumers.

Carotenoids give products a rich yellow to orange hue that consumers often associate with freshness, creaminess, and high quality. Natural fats and oils can vary in shade depending on the source and season; carotenoids help maintain consistent and standardized color across batches.

DIVI’s carotenoids for APPEALING COLORS

We offer carotenoid formulations especially developed for the coloration of fats.* They are used to give margarine, spreads and nut butters a rich butter-like yellow or golden hue and can also be used to give an appealing yellow-orange color to oils. They help to enhance or standardize the color of the final product.

  • Beta-carotene: Rich yellow to orange hue, used in margarine

  • Lutein: Golden yellow tones, used in specialty fats and sprays

HIGH PERFORMANCE IN APPLICATIONS

Our numerous carotenoid formulations can be used in all types of fats, oils and spreads with excellent technical properties:         

  • Superior dispersibility
  • Uniform soft yellow to yellow-orange color shade
  • Excellent heat stability
  • Excellent color and pH stability
  • Repeatable color shade
  • No sensory impact

DIVI’S SOLUTIONS FOR OIL COLORATION

We have developed a range of suspensions available in various concentrations and oil bases to meet the specific needs of oil manufacturers.

Our team of experts has years of experience in coloring and color matching. They will work with you to develop the formulation best suited to your needs.

DIVI’S SOLUTIONS FOR NUT BUTTER COLORATION

The consumption of dairy alternatives has increased significantly in recent years. Our portfolio includes ingredients that are suitable for vegetarian and vegan diets and can be used to color and fortify dairy substitutes.

Contact us for more information. Our technical experts will help you select the right formulation for your product.

DIVI’S INGREDIENTS FOR VEGAN DIETS

In recent years, veganism has gained in popularity. Beyond this movement, more and more consumers want to avoid ingredients derived from animals. To help food producers meet this demand, our range of ingredients includes many alternatives suitable for a vegan diet. Please consult our catalog for a detailed list of products or contact us for more information.

Ingredient portfolio for vegan diets

Our range of vitamins and carotenoids includes many forms suitable for vegan diets, as well as plant-based alternatives.

Less additives and excellent performance

In order to help our customers meet consumer demand for less additives, we offer product forms that are formulated with healthy oils and contain no added sugar, no synthetic antioxidants and no silicon dioxide.

DIVI’S “FREE-FROM” INGREDIENT RANGE

Consumer demand continues to evolve towards products containing as few additives as possible. In order to help our customers meet this need, we have developed high quality ingredients formulated with less additives. Our various Novel Application product formulations can be used either in supplements or to fortify and color a variety of liquid and dry foods and beverages.

DIVI’S SILICON DIOXIDE-FREE INGREDIENTS

To answer increasing consumers’ concern about the potential safety issues of nanoparticles on health, we developed product forms which are nanoparticle free. Our state-of-the-art technical capabilities enable us to produce spray-dried products without addition of silicon dioxide. These products show similar flowability performance and characteristics to conventional spray-dried products.

Silicon dioxide-free ingredients for foods

To help our customers target consumer demand for additive-free foods, our range also includes silicon dioxide-free product forms.

Request SPREAD formulations

We leverage our ingredient and application expertise to prepare standard formulations that support you in your product development. Request the formulations you need today and consult this list regularly. It is frequently supplemented with new formulations.

Can not find what you are looking for? Do not hesitate to contact us. We will develop a formulation suitable for your application.

Divi’s customized support for SPREAD & OIL manufacturers

We offer versatile and personalized solutions to help spread & oil manufacturers achieve their objectives in terms of innovation and product development:

Customized product development and stability testing in all applications

Customized ingredient solutions in liquids, beadlets and powder forms

Analytical testing from basic physical properties to sophisticated analytics

Comprehensive regulatory expertise for all major markets

Tailor-made solutions for specific needs

At Divi’s Nutraceuticals, we listen to our customers and understand their needs. We offer versatile and personalized solutions to help them achieve their objectives in terms of innovation and product development. In addition to our extensive portfolio, we can adapt our product formulations and solution concentrations to fit the individual needs of our customers.

* Regulatory Info

Beta-Carotene

EU: Beta-Carotene (E160a) needs to meet specifications in Commission Regulation (EU) No 231/2012. Addition at “quantum satis” level considering GMP.

USA: Beta-carotene is a direct food substance affirmed as generally recognized as safe. As per 21 CFR 73.95 the color additive β-carotene may be safely used for coloring foods generally, in amounts consistent with good manufacturing practice, except that it may not be used to color those foods for which standards of identity have been promulgated under section 401 of the act unless added color is authorized by such standards.

Lutein

EU: Lutein (E161b) is permitted for food use in the EU as a color or nutritional ingredient.

USA: Lutein can only be used as a nutritional ingredient in the USA.