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.
Functional Beverage
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
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.
Flavours by Foodarom®
At Foodarom, we are flavour designers. We personalize flavours to meet your needs and create flavour profiles that captivate the senses and create emotional connections. Our expertise in functional flavours is an added value that will open the door to new possibilities. Let’s work together to spark the imagination.
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™
BevChia Solutions are an excellent source of fibre, protein, calcium and ALA Omega-3 that are heat-treated using our MicroSure™ Plus technology to ensure a safe, stable and fully nutritious ingredient. BevChia™ is non-GMO, gluten-free and provides greater texture, flavour and dispersability, perfect for beverages and creamy foods.
BevFlax™
BevFlax Solutions combine excellent stability and a smooth mouthfeel with the exceptional nutritional value of protein, fibre, and Omega-3 ALA. Our MeadowPure™ sorting and selection systems ensure our BevFlax ingredients have a guaranteed shelf life of two years, maintain nutrition and are easy to incorporate into a variety of beverages and creamy foods.
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
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.
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.
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We’re built to help solve your next nutrition challenge. Send us your request to see how our expertise can add to your products and business.
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