Thanks to our cutting-edge technology, we developed expert carotenoids and vitamins formulations which optimally work in instant powder drinks. As the final beverage should look appealing in terms of color, aspect and taste, the technical requirements include uniform mixing of all ingredients, as well as quick and complete dissolution to release the full nutritional benefits. Our products are quickly and fully dispersible in water.
In addition, our carotenoids offer a wide range of colors associated with nutritional benefits, helping powdered beverage and instant powder drink producers meet growing consumer demand for healthy, clean-label beverage solutions with added functional benefits.
DIVI’S SOLUTIONS FOR INSTANT POWDER DRINKS
Our spray-dried powders and microencapsulated ingredients offer many advantages:
Ease of manufacturing due to excellent flowability
Quick dissolution
Excellent color and pH stability in beverages
Repeatable color shade
No ring formation
No sedimentation
No turbidity
No sensory impact
DIVI’S DISPERSIBLE-GRADE BEADLETS FOR BEVERAGES
Our exclusive microencapsulation technology enables our beadlets to disperse optimally and quickly in cold water. They also offer excellent content uniformity and easy handling, as well as excellent stability in a variety of applications.
Quickly dispersible carotenoids for powder beverages
Divi’s unique CaroQuik beadlets are designed to enhance rapid, cold water dispersion of fortified powder beverages. Due to their innovative formulation, these specialty carotenoid beadlets improve powder beverage dissolution times. They offer fortification and color features for application in today’s popular instant beverage sticks, dispersion caps and powder canister packaging.
DIVI’S UNIQUE MINI BEADLETS
For all fine powders where uniformity is a key performance parameter, we use a new cutting-edge technology to make unique mini beadlets. Our MiniBeads provide excellent stability and grant excellent uniformity in a range of applications.
QUICKLY DISPERSIBLE INGREDIENTS
Fortified powdered beverages packaged in sticks, dispersion caps and powder cans are gaining increasing interest from consumers.
Using a unique technology, Divi’s has developed CaroQuik and VitaQuik beadlets for quick dispersion of fortified powdered beverages in cold water.
DIVI’S COLORATION RANGE FOR INSTANT POWDER DRINKS
Consumers are highly concerned about the effects of artificial dyes and are looking for other options.
We offer a wide range of carotenoids that can be used as healthy colors in a variety of beverages*. Our coloring solutions help you to develop drinks with bright colors ranging from light yellow to dark red, through oranges and pinks, while in most cases adding health benefits to your products.
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.
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 portfolio for INSTANT POWDER DRINKS
Divi’s offers a large range of carotenoid and vitamin powders available in different concentrations:
Divi’s customized support for beverage manufacturers
Divi’s offers versatile and personalized solutions to help beverage 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
* Regulatory Info
EU: Astaxanthin is limited for use in food supplements.
USA: Astaxanthin can be used in dietary supplements and foods (for an intended use that is not to impact color of the food).
Lycopene
EU: Lycopene 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 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.
