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Functional Beverages

Our deep understanding of end-to-end beverage development 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.

CapsiAtra®

A dihydrocapsiate compound naturally found in CH-19 sweet peppers that holds clinical benefits in weight management.  Excellent solution for tablet, capsule, softgel, powder drink mixes and ready-to-drink beverages. 

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.

CuroWhite®

All of the benefits of curcumin but white for easier manufacturing. The lack of color and the milder taste and smell make it ideal for many applications such as tablets, capsules, powder drink mixes, functional foods, and gummies.

FitNox®

A source of 100% plant-based nitric oxide, FitNox has been scientifically shown to increase NO levels up to 336% while improving endurance. Provides a stimulant free and low dose solution for pre-workout performance products. An excellent solution for powder drink mixes, tablets and capsules.

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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Flavors by Foodarom®

At Foodarom, we are flavor designers. We personalize flavors to meet your needs and create flavor profiles that captivate the senses and create emotional connections. Our expertise in functional flavors is an added value that will open the door to new possibilities. Let’s work together to spark the imagination.

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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™ Protein

BevChia Protein is an all-natural, chia protein concentrate featuring 30% protein, ALA omega-3 and 42% fiber. It’s non-GMO, hormone-free and gluten-free. Heat treatment with MicroSure™ Plus technology affords additional food safety and guarantees shelf stability for two years. BevChia Protein is an excellent solution for beverages, bars, bakery and gluten-free foods.

BevEdge® Pea Protein

BevEdge Pea Protein is a unique, clean label pea protein that has excellent stability and a smooth flow rate.  Our BevEdge plant-based pea protein offer superior dispersibility in beverages, powdered drink mixes, frozen desserts and creamy foods. 

BevFlax™

BevFlax Solutions combine excellent stability and a smooth mouthfeel with the exceptional nutritional value of protein, fiber, and Omega-3 ALA. Our MeadowPure® sorting and selection system and MicroSure® heat treatment ensure our BevFlax ingredients have a guaranteed shelf life of two years, maintain nutrition, and are easy to incorporate into a variety of beverages.

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Learn more about our MicroSure and MeadowPure safety and quality processes

BevFlax XtraSmooth is a finely milled, whole-seed flax flour specifically designed to deliver all the nutritional benefits of whole-seed flax with an exceptionally smooth mouthfeel. Naturally rich in protein, fiber, and Omega-3 ALAs, BevFlax XtraSmooth is ideal for shelf-stable plant-based beverages. 

BevOat™ Low Viscosity

BevOat Low Viscosity is an oat flour designed to remain pourable in heat-treated beverages, allowing for a higher inclusion rate and greater nutritional content. Naturally rich in fiber, protein, and beta glucans, it is ideal for use in plant-based beverages and creamy foods. Our OatSecure™ closed loop supply chain offers complete gluten free integrity, guaranteed to have <10ppm of gluten.

HarvestPro® Proteins

HarvestPro Proteins are allergen free, gluten-free and kosher protein ingredients that deliver excellent protein and performance in beverages, creamy foods, snacks, baked products and prepared foods.

ProFam® Pea Protein 580

U.S. grown and sourced through partnership with ADM. ProFam is clean-tasting with less bitter and sulfuric off-notes and its light color provides a neutral base for powder drink mixes, ready-to-drink beverages, dairy alternatives and nutritional snacks.

Proteins

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

Our Solutions

BevEdge® Pea Protein

BevEdge Pea Protein is a unique, clean label pea protein using our patent-pending BevEdge technology providing excellent stability and a smooth flow rate. Our BevEdge plant-based pea protein offers superior dispersibility in beverages, powdered drink mixes, frozen desserts, creamy foods, bakery mixes.

BevEdge™ Whey Protein A-220W

This revolutionary ingredient makes berry and citrus flavored 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 flavor 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.

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ProTherma®

An agglomerated hydrolyzed whey protein designed for use in hot ready-to-mix powdered beverage and food applications. ProTherma protein is heat stable, soluble and high in protein. An excellent solution for ready-to-mix hot coffees, teas, cocoas, malts, soups, oatmeals, coffee creamers and coffee pods.

Thermax® Heat-Stable Whey Proteins

Heat-stable whey proteins that offer excellent nutritional value imparting a clean flavor, 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

A premium grass-fed ingredient brand from our Ireland-based partner Tirlán, Truly Grass Fed is a revolution in modern dairy that evokes a return to the basics. Small herds and a passion for the art of farming. 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. 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. 

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.

TechVantage™ Functionally Optimized Nutrient Technologies

In-house technologies used to improve the functionality of nutrients in your food, beverage and supplement products. Our functionally optimized nutrient portfolio covers a wide variety of categories including vitamins, minerals, botanicals, amino acids, sweeteners, carbohydrates, fats (oils), fibers and acids. 

Functionally optimized benefits include:

  • easier material handling in a powder form
  • reduction in overages resulting in cost savings
  • standardized particle size for more uniform distribution in a blend
  • potency protection and stability during processing and shelf life
  • flavor and odor masking of objectionable tasting ingredients
  • easy dispersion and improved solubility in solution
Our Solution

NutraShield™- Micronencapsulations

NutraShield microencapsulated nutrients have a protective coating called a matrix applied around the nutrients core. The matrix keeps the active ingredient locked in and stabilized.

Microencapsulation enhances the impact and function of nutrients in a variety of ways, including masking odors and flavors, improving stability, controlling color intensity, converting oils to powders and delaying the release of nutrient. These ingredients are commonly used in dietary supplements, bars, cereals, snacks, powder drink mixes, beverages, infant nutrition, and medical food, to name a few. Methods used include core and shell encapsulation and matrix encapsulation.

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