Nature’s palette in every sip
From pale yellow to warm orange and bright red, our range of carotenoids offers a broad spectrum of colors for beverages.
Our exhaustive portfolio of spray-dried powders, beadlets and emulsions allows innovative beverages with consumer appealing appearance.
Our carotenoids are used to enhance visual aspect and add nutritional benefits in fruit juices, smoothies, soft drinks, alcoholic beverages, as well as sports and energy drinks.
Meeting Technical Challenges of Beverage Coloration
Coloring beverages with carotenoids involves numerous technical considerations. Our carotenoids are formulated to ensure stability, consistency and visual appeal in a variety of applications and manufacturing processes. And for the most challenging applications, we have developed innovative technical solutions.
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.
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 FORMULATION EXPERTISE
Rely on our 20 years of experience in formulation to help you develop your next beverage. Our application labs on three continents are fully equipped to meet our customers’ needs for fortification and carotenoid coloration.
Our services include color matching using L*a*b* values, as well as sensory and taste profile analysis in order to meet your specifications.
We can also provide you with our own application formulas for different types of drinks in order to guide you in the choice of the ingredients and the quantities to be used according to the desired result.
Divi’s customized support for Beverage manufacturers
We offer 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
* Our beverage color fan gives an indication of the colors that can be achieved depending on the carotenoids used and their concentration in the final product. It does not guarantee exact color rendering in relation to the final product.
** 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.
