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Functional Beverages

Our deep understanding of beverage development and ingredients can make your beverages more functional and your brand more appealing.

With winning product ideas, functionally superior ingredients, formulation expertise and technical support, and other support, we help our customers stay ahead in a quickly evolving market. 

Bioactive Ingredients

We use advanced processing technologies to make bioactive ingredients that are designed to improve specific physical functions, including muscle synthesis, sleep performance, and bone health. 

Our Solutions

AminoBlast® Technology – BCAAs & EAAs

Provides amino acids with enhanced capabilities, improving their functionality and application performance. An excellent solution for ready-to-drink beverages, powder drink mixes, bars and gel applications.

CreaBev®

A soluble and stable creatine monohydrate for superior performance beverages. Shown to provide improved short term and long term stability. An excellent solution for ready-to-drink beverages and powder drink mixes.

PepForm® Tryptophan

Formulate sleep aids with proven next day cognitive benefits that help promote the body’s own natural melatonin without the addition of hormones, in a more soluble and bioavailable way. An excellent solution for powder drink mixes, ready-to-drink beverages, tablet, capsule and nutrition bar formats.

TruCal® Balanced Milk Mineral Complex

Balanced milk mineral complex for bone support. Scientifically shown to help improve bone density and strength. Excellent solution for ready-to-drink beverages, powder drink mixes, tablets, capsules, bars, snacks, yogurts and cheese.

Custom Premix Solutions

Our premix solutions are built around your specifications to achieve optimal nutritional, functional and operational performance.

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Micronutrients

Our vitamins, minerals, amino acids, botanicals and herbs can fortify your beverages and provide the essential building blocks for overall health and wellness.

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Plant-Based Solutions

Plant-based nutrition takes on new levels of ease and function at Glanbia Nutritionals. Our portfolio provides safe, clean label, quality plant-based ingredients and protein that are non-GMO, gluten-free, and kosher.

Our Solutions

BevChia™ Omega-3

BevChia Omega-3 is an excellent source of fiber, protein, calcium and ALA Omega-3.  It is heat treated using our MicroSure™ Plus technology to ensure a safe, stable and fully nutritious ingredient, and BevChia provides better texture, dispersability and beverage viscosity perfect for beverages and creamy foods.

BevEdge™ Pea Protein

BevEdge Pea Protein is a unique, non-GMO, gluten-free, kosher ingredient that has excellent stability and a smooth flow rate and offers superior dispersibility and flavor in beverages and powdered drink mixes.  

BevFlax™ XtraSmooth

BevFlax XtraSmooth provides excellent stability and a smooth mouthfeel. It has an exceptional nutritional profile containing protein, fiber, and Omega-3 ALA. It has been heat treated using our MicroSure Plus process, resulting in the safest flax in the industry.

BevOat™

BevOat combine MicroSure™ Plus heat-treatment technology with super-fine, cold-milling technology to deliver the safest ingredients without the grittiness found in standard plant-based options.  Our NSF-certified, gluten-free OatSecure™ closed-loop supply chain guarantees BevOat has <10ppm gluten.  BevOat maintains nutrition and is easy to incorporate into a variety of beverages and creamy foods. 

BevOat™ Low Viscosity

BevOat Low Viscosity allows you to incorporate the benefits of BevOat at a higher inclusion rate so you can include more glucan and healthy nutrients into your beverages and creamy foods.  BevOat Low Viscosity is MicroSure™ Plus heat-treated to deliver the safest ingredient and due to our OatSecure™ system is guaranteed to have <10ppm gluten.

HarvestPro® Pea XtraSmooth

HarvestPro Pea XtraSmooth Protein is an allergen free, gluten-free and kosher protein that delivers excellent performance in beverages and baked goods.

Proteins

Our dairy-based and plant-based proteins offer superior nutrition and functional properties—like flavour, solubility and stability—to help your beverages stand out in the market.

Our Solutions

BevEdge™ Whey Protein A-220W

This revolutionary ingredient makes berry and citrus flavoured protein powdered mixes possible for the first time. Using our patent-pending BevEdge technology, this pre-acidified whey protein isolate uses no lecithin, yet mixes more easily than soy or sunflower lecithin in high acid RTMs. Its larger particle size improves flowability, helping eliminate costly slowdowns or production stoppages. A clean label solution with excellent high acid flavour expression and no unsightly cloudiness typical of high acid RTM mixes, this ingredient creates opportunities for new SKUs and new types of protein powders. Label simply as whey protein isolate, citric acid.

BevWise® Protein Systems

Protein fortification ingredient systems specifically for use in aseptic and hotfill processing, providing exceptional nutritional attributes and functional benefits to high acid beverages. Benefits include superior clarity, less astringency, improved processing with better dispersion, and reduced processing time/costs.

NutraSol® Functional Protein Fortification Systems

These milk protein ingredients fortify food and beverage systems with proteins that meet specific functionality requirements or claims (such as micellar casein). They’re an excellent solution for ready-to-drink beverages, powder drink mixes, yogurts and other dairy foods.

OptiSol® 1000 Series

A range of functional dairy protein ingredients that improve product processing and flavor, enhance creaminess and texture and support clean label initiatives. rBST free and Grade A options available. Our OptiSol 1005 and 1007 are advanced whey protein concentrates that allow for increased protein levels in high heat processed applications.

Learn more about OptiSol® 1007 Learn more about OptiSol® 1005

Thermax® Heat-Stable Whey Proteins

Heat-stable whey proteins that offer excellent nutritional value imparting a clean flavour, depending on degree of hydrolysis. Manufactured from sweet whey using an advanced ultrafiltration process, Thermax® proteins are designed for UHT and retort processing conditions. They’re heat-stable at neutral pH, soluble over a wide pH range and available with protein content from 34% to 90%. An excellent solution for a wide variety of beverages, dairy products and bars and snacks.

Truly Grass Fed™ Proteins

In partnership with our Irish sister company, Glanbia Ireland, the Truly Grass Fed brand offers customers a fully traceable and third party accredited grass fed WPI, MPC and MPI under our Provon®, Solmiko® and BarPro® protein solutions. The Truly Grass Fed brand carries a promise with the Truly Grass Fed seal, a seal which signifies many things including 1) Cows grazed on grass lands for an average of 250 days a year 2) Cows receiving 95% of their nutritional feed from grass 3) Non-GMO Project Verified.

Edible Films

Since the 1960s, Watson’s research and development team has been a pioneer in soluble and edible film technology. Watson’s expertise in film technologies, commitment to quality, and range of processing equipment are unmatched in the industry.

Our Solution

EdiSparklz® Edible Glitter

EdiSparklz are colorful toppings and inclusions that can be used in a wide range of applications. 100% edible, EdiSparklz have no flavor, no sweetness and add no calories. They are available in a wide range of flakes or shapes, and are manufactured in a full spectrum of colors including standard, plant-based and metallic colors. EdiSparklz are a very cost-effective alternative to standard decorative options like sprinkles, and save customers an average of 20% by switching.

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