Natural Looking Color in Every Slice

Coloration in bakery products is critically important not just for visual appeal but also for consumer perception of freshness, quality, and taste. Color signals doneness, richness, and flavor (e.g., golden brown crust = fresh-baked, buttery taste). Bright or warm tones can suggest sweetness (for cakes, muffins) or healthfulness (for wholegrain or plant-based options).

Bakery items undergo high-temperature processing (baking, toasting), so colorants must be thermally stable. Carotenoids (like beta-carotene or lutein) are ideal due to their resistance to heat and natural golden tones.

DIVI’S CAROTENOID RANGE FOR COLORING BAKERY PRODUCTS

Our carotenoids are used to color a variety of bakery products, adding vibrant yellow, orange or red hues, improving the visual appeal of the final product. As antioxidants and vitamin A precursors, they also provide nutritional benefits.

Our carotenoid formulations have excellent technical features in bakery applications:

  • Uniform color
  • Reproducible color shade
  • Heat stability during backing
  • Excellent dispersibility
  • No sensory impact

CREATE APPETIZING BAKERY AND PASTRY PRODUCTS WITH CAROTENOIDS

We formulate our carotenoids to offer superior performance in a variety of bakery products:

  • Beta-Carotene: Yellow to orange hue, used in breads, rolls, cakes and cookies

  • Lutein: Golden-yellow tone, used in pastries and egg-based baked goods
  • Lycopene: Reddish tint, used in specialty breads or savory baked items
  • Apocarotenal: Reddish tint, used in specialty breads or savory baked items

Request bakery 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 INGREDIENTS FOR VEGAN FOOD

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

Please consult our catalog for a detailed list of products or contact us for more information.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Divi’s customized support for BAKERY PRODUCT manufacturers

We offer versatile and personalized solutions to help bakery product 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.

Apocarotenal

EU: The use of apocarotenal (E160e) as a food additive in the EU is determined by Reg. 1333/2008, specifying the respective food categories and maximum levels. Depending on the respective food category, the use of apocarotenal may be authorized as part of the group III additives where combined maximum limits apply or as individual additive, specified by an entry under E160e.

USA: The color additive [beta]-apo-8’-carotenal may be safely used for coloring foods generally, subject to the following restrictions: 1) The quantity of [beta]-apo-8’-carotenal does not exceed 15 milligrams per pound of solid or semisolid food or 15 milligrams per pint of liquid food. 2) It may not be used to color foods for which standards of identity have been promulgated under section 401 of the act unless added color is authorized by such standards. Labeling: Beta-apo-8’-carotenal (Color). Uses and restrictions: 21CFR73.90

Lycopene

EU: Lycopene (E160d) is permitted for food use in the EU as a color or nutritional ingredient.

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

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.