Beta-Carotene
Divi’s extensive portfolio for coloration and fortification
About Beta-Carotene
Beta-carotene, a carotenoid naturally found in many green leafy and yellow plants, is a fat soluble, yellow-orange pigment with two major functions:
- Fortification: Beta-carotene is a safe source of vitamin A, which supports immune function, eye, skin and cardiovascular health. It also demonstrates strong antioxidant properties.
- Coloration: Beta-carotene is used as healthy color in a variety of dietary supplement, food and beverage applications.
Divi’s Beta-Carotene
As an expert in crystal development, microencapsulation and homogenization, Divi’s offers a variety of stable, nature-identical beta-carotene product forms for use in fortification and coloration.
Our different beta-carotene product formulations – spray dried powders, microencapsulated beadlets, mini beadlets, liquid suspensions, and emulsions containing various carriers – show properties such as water or oil solubility, and can be used in a wide range of liquid and dry applications. Divi’s Beta-Carotene portfolio includes CaroQuick and CaroClear forms which are suitable for specific applications like powder or transparent beverages.
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Quick dispersible beta-carotene for powder beverages
Divi’s unique CaroQuik beadlets are designed to enhance rapid, cold water dispersion of fortified powder beverages. Due to their innovative formulation, these specialty carotenoid beadlets improve powder beverage dissolution times. They offer fortification and color features for application in today’s popular sticks, dispersion caps and powder canister packaging.
Bright color for transparent beverages
An increasing number of consumers consciously choose more natural diet. Divi’s 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 extensive Beta-Carotene portfolio for a variety of applications
Divi’s Beta-Carotene can be used in a wide range of applications, either for fortification or coloration. These include, but are not limited to:
- Dietary supplements: tablets, effervescent tablets, gummies
- Beverages: fruit and vegetable juices, soft drinks, energy drinks, sports drinks, flavored water
- Dairy: yogurt, cheese, buttercream, yogurt smoothies
- Confectionery: gummies, hard candies, glazes
- Ice cream: high and low fat ice cream, water ice
- Bakery: croissants, cakes, cookies, fruit filling
- Savory: sausages, soups, chips
- Fats/oils: margarine, UHT oils
Divi’s Natural Beta-Carotene
Divi’s Beta-Carotene portfolio includes natural beta-carotene produced by fermentation of Blakeslea Trispora . The product forms include powder, beadlets, emulsion and suspension for a range of applications in foods, beverages and dietary supplements.
Divi’s offers a number of case studies for the use of beta-carotene in different applications.
Divi’s Beta-Carotene Portfolio
- Product forms: spray dried powders, microencapsulated beadlets, liquid suspensions and emulsions
- Matrix (or carrier) variation in each product form supports specific application functions: water or oil solubility, use in dry blends
Beta-Carotene
| Solubility | Function | Application | |||||||
| Product name | Product Code | Cold Water Soluble | Oil Soluble | Coloration | Fortification | Beverages | Food | Tablets & Hard-shell Capsules | Soft-gelatin Capsules |
Beta-Carotene 1% SDSpray-dried powder | HNBC01A | x | x | x | x | ||||
Beta-Carotene 1% SD/SFSpray-dried silicon dioxide free powder | HNBC01R | x | x | x | |||||
CaroClear Beta-Carotene 1% SD/CSpray-dried powder | HNBC01H | x | x | x | x | ||||
CaroQuik Beta-Carotene 1% SD/QSpray-dried quick dispersible powder | HNBC01L | x | x | x | x | ||||
Beta-Carotene 5% ColorSpray-dried powder | HNBC05A | x | x | x | |||||
Beta-Carotene 7.5% DC/AFDirectly compressible starch beadlets | HNBC07C | x | x | x | |||||
Beta-Carotene 10% DGStarch beadlets | HNBC10A | x | x | x | x | x | |||
Beta-Carotene 10% DCDirectly compressible beadlets | HNBC01B | x | x | ||||||
Beta-Carotene 1% SDSpray-dried powder | HNBC01A | x | x | x | x | x | |||
Beta-Carotene 10% DG/FFish-gelatin beadlets
| HNBC10D | x | x | x | x | x | |||
CaroQuik Beta-Carotene 10% DG/QQuick dispersible beadlets
| HNBC10M | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||
Beta-Carotene 15% DGStarch mini beadlets
| HNBC15D | x | x | x | |||||
Beta-Carotene 20% DCDirectly compressible beadlets
| HNBC20A | x | x | ||||||
Beta-Carotene 20% DC/AFDirectly compressible starch beadlets
| HNBC20B | x | x | x | x | ||||
Beta-Carotene 20% DC/BDirectly compressible bovine-gelatin beadlets
| HNBC20H | x | x | ||||||
Beta-Carotene 10% SunSuspension in sunflower oil
| HNBC10G | x | x | x | x | x | |||
Beta-Carotene 11% SoySuspension in soybean oil
| HNBC11A | x | x | x | x | x | |||
Beta-Carotene 22% LFSuspension in corn oil
| HNBC22A | x | x | x | x | x | |||
Beta-Carotene 25% LFSuspension in corn oil
| HNBC25A | x | x | x | x | x | |||
Beta-Carotene 30%Suspension in corn oil
| HNBC30A | x | x | x | x | x | |||
Beta-Carotene 30% SunSuspension in sunflower oil
| HNBC30C | x | x | x | x | x | |||
Beta-Carotene 1% Emulsion
| HNBC01C | x | x | x | x | ||||
Beta-Carotene 2% Emulsion
| HNBC02A | x | x | x | x | ||||
Beta-Carotene 5% Emulsion B
| HNBC05C | x | x | x | x | x | |||
Beta-Carotene 10% Emulsion R
| HNBC10F | x | x | x | x | x | |||
Divi’s Natural Beta-Carotene Portfolio
- Source: microalgae Blakeslea Trispora
- Product forms: spray dried powders, microencapsulated beadlets, liquid suspensions and emulsions
- Matrix (or carrier) variation in each product form supports specific application functions: water or oil solubility, use in dry blends
Natural Beta-Carotene
| Solubility | Function | Application | |||||||
| Product name | Product Code | Cold Water Soluble | Oil Soluble | Coloration | Fortification | Beverages | Food | Tablets & Hard-shell Capsules | Soft-gelatin Capsules |
Beta-Carotene 1% SD/NNatural spray-dried powder | HNBC01D | x | x | x | x | ||||
Beta-Carotene 10% DG/NNatural dispersible grade beadlets | HNBC10H | x | x | x | x | x | |||
Beta-Carotene 20% DC/AFNNatural directly compressible starch beadlets | HNBC20E | x | x | x | x | ||||
Beta-Carotene 2% Emulsion/NNatural emulsion | HNBC02E | x | x | x | x | ||||
Beta-Carotene 30% Sun/NNatural suspension in sunflower oil | HNBC30G | x | x | x | x | x | |||
