Discover our portfolio of carotenoids and vitamins that deliver the best performance in sports drinks. Our carotenoids offer a wide range of colors associated with nutritional benefits, helping sports drink producers meet growing consumer demand for healthy, clean-label beverage solutions with added functional benefits.
DIVI’S SOLUTIONS FOR SPORTS DRINKS
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 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.
DIVI’S COLORATION RANGE FOR SPORTS 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.
Bright color for transparent beverages
Our CaroClear Beta-Carotene is a nature-identical colorant that can be used to color clear and transparent beverages, such as flavored waters and soft drinks, but also energy and sports drinks. The result is a bright, transparent color that makes beverages very appealing to consumers. Divi’s CaroClear Beta-Carotene is taste neutral and shows excellent stability in applications.
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 sports drinks
Divi’s offers a large range of carotenoid and vitamin beadlets and 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
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.
