ISM & ProSweets: Capol features naturally stable coloring agents encapsulated in rice protein
02 Feb 2024 | Capol
Capol exhibited its Vivapigments range of natural color extracts encapsulated in a rice protein matrix, which enhances stability in the presence of light, pH variants and temperature. The clean label specialist offers alternatives to synthetic pigments in primary colors — red from beet juice, blue from blue spirulina and yellow from safflower. Additionally, the supplier presents natural-based functional alternative to the titanium dioxide whitener.
This is Benjamin Ferreir on the show floor of ISM and Pro Suites in Cologne, Germany, and I'm here with Sophie Bodert, and she's the R&D food technologist of colors at Kapo.
So, Sophie, can you share some insights about your innovations being exhibited here today at the show?
So today we are presenting our Viva pigments.
It's a natural color extract encapsulated in a rice protein which makes them more stable to light, pH.
Temperature and it's a lake replacer which is completely natural, so it's, this is a claim.
And also, what, what are some of the difficulties in switching out artificial colors with natural colors?
So the main difficulties are the stability of the color because the synthetic color.
There are only one molecule and it's really stable to eat pH and light and for the natural extract it's natural, so there are different molecules in it which can interact and that makes them less stable to light.
And temperature.
So this is why we use our technology to encapsulate them into rice proteins to make them more stable to the environment aggressions.
And also, what are some of the key trends that you're noticing in the colorist market?
This year we are mostly developing some coloring food products to match the EU regulation.
We have now the three primary colors the red from red.
We chose the blue from Spirina blue and the yellow from Caramous yellow, and now it allows us to make some blends and to get some other colors like orange, purple, or brown, or even green.
The second one is.
White to replace the titanium dioxide, so we developed the technology with the same technology an encapsulation of the calcium carbonate which can be used in the hard sugar panning to replace the titanium dioxide.
I have some samples here where you can see.
The titanium dioxide white compared to the Higgs whites and this is pretty close.
And you also have some other samples here to show.
Oh yeah, I wanted to show as so what what our technology is doing to the extract.
So as you can see here, it's a drawdown of the spirulina extract and compared to the viva pigment drawdown, you can clearly see that on the black side of the sheet, the viva pigment is way more covering than the extract.
So this is what our pigment do and.
Improve the covering of the product.
Sophie, thank you very much for your insights.
