CHICAGO — Through its 2019 acquisition of nutrition solutions supplier Watson, Glanbia Nutritionals, a leading producer of functional and nutritional solutions for food products, has strengthened its capabilities in nutrient optimization technologies. The company can now address the formulation requirements of today’s increasingly sophisticated food world, especially around growing trends such as keto, low-sugar, grain-free and gluten-free.
It’s all because of TechVantage functionally optimized nutrient technologies. This new platform provides optimizations in color/clarity, taste, stability, dispersibility and bioavailability. The in-house technologies within the TechVantage platform are NutraShield Microcencapsulations, UniTrit Triturations and GranulPlex Granulations, each with their own unique benefits.
- NutraShield microencapsulated nutrients provide a protective matrix around each nutrient, enhancing their impact and function in a variety of ways — including masking odors and flavors, improving stability, controlling color intensity, converting oils to powders and delaying the release of nutrients.
- UniTrit triturated nutrients are standardized on a carrier for homogeneous delivery of nutrients, allowing for easier distribution of nutrients in the final blend and for ease of scaling with less overages.
- GranulPlex granulated nutrients are formed through creating single particles from multiple small and large particles, allowing for improved instantization, dispersibility and a better performing compressible powder.
“This is enabling us to provide our partners with greater end-product functionality while mitigating formulation difficulties and production headaches in the manufacturing of their products.” — Pete Budde | senior director, premix solutions | Glanbia Nutritionals
Glanbia Nutritionals’ extensive functionally optimized nutrient portfolio covers a wide variety of categories, including vitamins, minerals, botanicals, amino acids, sweeteners, carbohydrates, fats (oils), botanicals, fibers and acids. This portfolio provides dramatic improvements to manufacturers’ production of bakery items, as well as other edible products, from gummies to beverages.
“We are excited to offer our customers many new premix solutions leveraging the decades of microencapsulation, granulation and trituration knowledge and experience from Watson,” said Pete Budde, senior director of premix solutions at Glanbia Nutritionals. “This is enabling us to provide our partners with greater end-product functionality while mitigating formulation difficulties and production headaches in the manufacturing of their products.”
To learn more about the TechVantage technologies and functionally optimized nutrients portfolio, contact the Glanbia Nutritionals team at www.glanbianutritionals.com/contact.
