IFE Manufacturing 2026: Inside Angel Yeast’s Clear Yeast Protein for functional beverages
02 Apr 2026 | Angel Yeast
Dr. Winston Sun, product manager at Angel Yeast, discusses the development of the company’s new Clear Yeast Protein. He explains how the product achieves 100% clarity for visually clear beverages, its benefits for Ready-to-Drink formulations, and how it aligns with consumer demand for clean labels and sustainability. Dr. Sun also discusses Angel Yeast’s future innovations in the beverage sector.
Food greens first, reporter from IFE Manufacturing in London, and we're here at the Angel Yeast stand with Doctor Winston Sun, who's a product manager and an expert in food biotechnology.
Welcome to you.
So can you tell us about the development process behind your new clear yeast protein and how it achieves 100% clarity, making it ideal for visually clear beverages?
Yes, actually, we developed this clear protein or transparent yeast protein, or actually we call it a hydrolyzed yeast protein.
It's based on our deep understanding of the market for the functional beverage.
So how we realize it's because we find that the market needs a product with high nutrition but not sacrificing the flavor.
Why also they need to have a fresh taste and also.
Not a burden for their swallowing.
So that's why we developed this product by modifying or optimizing the molecular weight and dispersion ability in the water so we can realize by almost zero scattering ability, so it can show almost a transparency state.
Interesting.
So what particular benefits?
Clear yeast protein offer for ready to drink formulations.
How do you see enhancing the market for functional beverages?
For the advantages of our hydro rice yeast protein, first is the nutritional value because it's a high nutritional value product which contains all essential amino acid.
It can be functional ingredients.
The second is formulation flexibility because Due to its transparent ability and also stability, it can be in various applications, especially for the beverage, for example, the juices or the sparkling water and so on.
So based on our expectation.
We think this incurable ingredients could be applied for various functional beverages because for current state consumers not only need the nutrition elevated product but also to naturally added that the protein sources in the product.
OK, so can you tell us more about how clear yeast protein aligns with the growing consumer demand for clean label and sustainable ingredients, and what advantages does your product offer over traditional protein sources and beverages?
So for our yeast protein, it's originally from the natural yeast and it's by the bio fermentation process without any synthesis of the chemicals.
I think it relies with the green label definition compared with the traditional protein sources, for example, the plant-based protein or wheat protein.
First it's a non-animal which could be used as protein source in various applications and various different types of groups of people, for example, vegan food.
The second is highly nutrition because.
The nutritional value, for example, the BD number of the yeast protein is equal to 1, and it has 9 essential amino acids could be verified as a functional ingredients.
The third is about the neutral taste because yeast protein is not like the.
Animal protein or plant basal protein which has a milky or beanie taste.
It's a neutral taste.
It could be used for various applications.
So based on our understanding, I think our hid flies is a protein can develop various kinds of applications for different scenario and especially.
With the launch of Clear yeast protein, how does Angel Yeast plan to expand its product offerings in the beverage sector, and what trends will influence your future product innovations with developing our new hydrolyzed yeast protein.
We also made some demonstrations and further we need to develop this.
Products in various applications together with the other ingredients, for example, the prebiotics are, functional ingredients or the peptides and so on.
What we found that our yeast hydrolysed yeast protein have some characteristics.
For example, it could.
Meets the requirement of the clean label.
We meet the requirements of the low carbon emission, and it could be used for various different applications.
So finally we could summarize that angel.
That have already developed this protein for various scenarios and also for various kinds of different groups of people, and we will keep developing more functional protein products, especially when the new markets emerging.
Thanks for your time today.
