Our carotenoids deliver excellent application performance in smoothies. They offer a wide range of yellow to red colors together with nutritional benefits. To help smoothie producers meet growing consumer demand for healthy, clean-label beverages, we developed ingredients without synthetic additives.
DIVI’S SOLUTIONS FOR SMOOTHIES
Our spray-dried powders and microencapsulated ingredients offer many advantages:
Ease of manufacturing due to excellent flowability
Superior dispersibility
Excellent color and pH stability in beverages
Repeatable color shade
No ring formation
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.
DIVI’S COLORATION RANGE FOR SMOOTHIES
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 SMOOTHIES
Divi’s offers a large range of carotenoid and vitamin beadlets and spray-dried powders 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
Canthaxanthin
EU: Canthaxanthin is not permitted in the EU as a direct food color.
USA: The color additive canthaxanthin may be safely used for coloring foods generally subject to the following restrictions:
(i) The quantity of canthaxanthin does not exceed 30 mg per pound of solid or semisolid food or per pint of liquid food; and
(ii) 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.
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.
