Stabilising and protecting

A flavour as bright as its orange hue. A foamy pour with bubbles that last until the beverage is gone. A beverage with a nice colour and flavour in perfect balance. A pill that is easy to swallow and fast acting. That is the power of Ingredion Idea Labs™ Delivery Systems innovations. This effort helps you address consumer trends and solve your challenges of delivering such precious ingredients as flavours, fragrances and nutrients in consumer products, but also stabilise the different actives in their drinks.

Ingredion has built proprietary technologies around emulsification and encapsulation. They help you protect and stabilise your active ingredients in products from foods and beverages to personal, home and fabric care to supplements and medicines. These products answer the trends in superior quality and sensory experiences, affordability, and pure and simple. These products respond to consumer needs for superior quality, sensory experiences, pure and simple labels and all at an affordable price.

For example, with the quality and sensory-building capabilities of these technologies, colours can be brighter and flavours bolder. Foams and froths can add fun and sensorial appeal. Fragrances can endure throughout the full cycle of a product, such as detergents and fabric softeners that deliver lasting fragrances consumers associate with the scents of “home” and “clean.”

These cost-effective speciality ingredients enable you to deliver active components, like flavours and vitamins. They work in systems that present environmental challenges, such as high temperatures and the presence of oxygen during processing or shelf life. Ingredion’s ever-expanding toolbox of nature-based ingredients such as starches from corn, tapioca and potato, extracts and the quillaia tree enable you to conquer these challenges. You will also find new market benefits, from saving money to simplifying product labels and delivering hard-to-work-with nutritional ingredients in foods, beverages and supplements.

Deliver functionality and embed actives

With emulsification, the ingredients preserve the functionality and quality of final products—from dressings such as mayonnaise, which is essentially an emulsion of oil, egg, lemon juice and seasonings, to home care applications, such as body wash with fragrance oils. In soft drinks or vitamin waters, emulsifiers keep flavour oils or actives distributed uniformly throughout the beverage.

Encapsulants help you protect your active ingredients by embedding them in a powder and holding them in a matrix. Think powdered drink mixes and herb and spice blends—or even excipients that enable tableting of drugs and pharmaceuticals, such as vitamin tablets or prescription medicines. A capsule of antihistamine or soft-gel fish oil pill could use a protective coating that dissolves to release the ingredients once they are swallowed.

Innovating for tomorrow

We are pushing the boundaries of these technologies to see how they can be used in industrial processes such as plating and for delivery of ingredients to improve their functionalities. Ask us how we can help you stabilise and protect your active ingredients.