GNT brings coloring foods to savory market

19 Jul 2017 --- The GNT Group has launched the first complete and truly natural color range for savory products, the leading global provider of Coloring Foods is creating another milestone. The new EXBERRY Savory Solutions are ideal to give any desired shade to all types of applications in the segment, while offering excellent performance and easy handling. Servicing this additional market worth more than €220 billion worldwide, the company is further reinforcing its position in the field.

“With this unique range, we are making the savory market significantly more natural – and are strongly enhancing visual appeal”, says Paul Collins, Director of International Sales and Marketing. “In other categories, fruit and vegetable concentrates are already becoming the industry standard. The savory market, however, is still mostly colored by spices and additives. Now, manufacturers in the industry finally have the opportunity to leave additives such as carmine, caramel or copper chlorophyllin behind, without having to compromise on brilliance and variety, stability and shelf-life.”

Speaking to FoodIngredientsFirst, Collins says: “The EXBERRY Coloring Food solutions for beverage coloration are based on fruit, vegetable and other edible plants; also for some specific beverage types such as juices, smoothies and instant drinks. Since the raw materials are processed with water, they only contain some naturally occurring sugars which are present in the concentrate. The EXBERRY Coloring Foods are standardized and highly concentrated meaning that relatively low levels are required to impart a good color and as such the level of sugar contribution is not significant in most cases.”

“By using EXBERRY Coloring Foods this is adding color in the most natural way possible and as part of a holistic development can contribute significantly to the overall product experience and consumer acceptance,” he explains. 

Precise color concepts for universal application
From yellow, orange and red to pink, brown, blue or green – the savory range offers all required shades. They can be used in all applications ranging from meat and meat analogues, UHT and instant soups, wet and dry mix sauces to dips and dressings as well as pickles and seasonings. Since they are available as powder or liquid, they are suitable to meet any requirement. During handling, there is no staining of process equipment, which significantly facilitates production processes.

As with all of GNT’s solutions, the new concentrates have standardized coloring properties – as opposed to commonly used spices. Therefore, they allow for a highly accurate dosage and give full control over the appearance of foods. This provides manufacturers with enhanced color opportunities to support recipe innovation.

Recognizable ingredients for clear labels
All EXBERRY Savory Solutions are produced exclusively from common vegetables and edible plants through gentle physical processes such as pressing, chopping and filtering. No chemicals or organic solvents are utilized. Therefore, they are not additives but food with coloring properties and can simply be declared as food in the ingredient list, creating a perfectly clean label. Moreover, only those raw materials are selected that fit well with flavor associations of savory recipes. All concentrates are free from allergens, GMO and palm oil and suitable for vegetarian, kosher and halal food.

“Savory manufacturers who want to be ahead of their competitors must find ways of responding to the growing consumer demand for clean and simple ingredient lists. As color is one of the major factors in a purchase decision, they cannot make compromises on the visual appeal of their products,” says Collins. “With our savory solutions, we enable producers to overcome these challenges and take the next step towards new color concepts, while going natural at the same time.”

You can read a recent interview with Collins on multi-sensory experiences in beverages here. 

by Elizabeth Green