Soft drinks

Hitting the soft spot

Soft drinks are not only the world’s largest beverage category, they’re also one of its most competitive. So how can you compete with global brands in local markets and drive consumer preference?

It starts with differentiating on taste, where our solutions for soft drinks can help you develop a beautifully balanced flavor profile – whether you’re manufacturing carbonated soft drinks; non-carbonated soft drinks like ready-to-drink tea or coffee; or flavored drinks such as juices and concentrates. Furthermore, our experts can help you achieve this while reducing sugar in your formulations. 

In addition to sugar reduced soft drinks, we can also fortify your products with additional high-quality functional ingredients like vitamins and minerals that support health and wellness claims. In fact, whatever you’re looking to achieve, our experts can provide everything from consumer insights and product development to regulatory support. 

Tackling your key challenges in soft drinks

To create the best soft drinks you need a partner that understands the trends driving consumer preference; and knows how to deliver the qualities needed to help you create differentiated products.

Great taste

Delicious taste and captivating flavors in soft drinks are essential to keep consumers coming back for more.

Consumer insights

This is a fast-moving category that requires equally agile consumer insight and market intelligence in order to stay ahead of the pack.

Hold the sugar!

Reducing sugar is not just good for consumers; it’s increasingly key for addressing sugar taxes and sugar-reduction legislation.

Wider health benefits

Beyond sugar reduction, consumers are seeking out products with additional health benefits; and you need functional ingredients to deliver them.

Sparkling solutions

Great taste is essential in carbonated soft drinks. We can help you provide it while also tapping into the growing market for sugar reduced soft drinks – with our unique family of flavor solutions, including non-artificial sweeteners.

But supporting consumers in reducing their calorie intake is only one part of the puzzle. For example, with our family of nature-identical colorants you can replace non-natural colorants in your formulations for a cleaner label – and a happier customer. 

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Wonderful water

It’s now possible to fortify water (still and sparkling) with a broad range of functional ingredients that can improve the health profile – with no compromise on its clean taste and crystal-clear appearance. 

Just one of our solutions for soft drinks is a customized nutritional premix that blends your choice of functional ingredients into one single, efficient and homogenous solution – which can also balance the pH of your product. From vitamins and minerals, to antioxidants and botanical extracts, these high-quality ingredients are ideal for differentiating your product with enticing front-of-pack claims.

Tea, no sugar

Are you ready to create ready to drink tea and coffee products that meet the growing consumer demand for sugar-reduced soft drinks and lower calorie intake?  

Using our sugar-reduction technologies and ingredients, we can work with you to make it happen - all while ensuring that your products retain their great taste and mouthfeel with our non-artificial sweeteners and texturizers. In dairy-based tea and coffee applications, our experts can also help capture perfectly creamy mouthfeel and tackle your processing and performance challenges by drawing on our extensive track record in the dairy industry.

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The joy of juice

In flavored soft drinks like juices and nectars, we don’t just bring intense, beautifully balanced flavor coupled with the potential to drastically reduce sugar with our non-artificial sweeteners. 

Our experts can also work with you to intensify the color of your juice using our family of nature-identical colors; ideal for Azo-dye replacement thanks to their outstanding color matching and enhancement. You can also clarify your fruit juice more effectively with our long-established fruit processing enzymes, all while increasing your yield and shortening production times. 

Concentrated success

Getting the taste right is essential for the syrups & concentrates that form the foundation of flavored soft drinks. That means not only delivering the ideal flavor combinations, but also having the ability to balance this flavor profile by minimizing and masking any negative aftertastes and bitterness.

Our experienced team will help you achieve all this and more – for example by reducing sugar with no compromise on taste. In fact, we can even rebuild mouthfeel in low-sugar formulations. 

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Powder power!

On the go consumers are increasingly turning to powdered mixes to quickly create their own non-carbonated soft drinks.

We have the technologies and ingredients to help you lower the sugar content. But you can also give your powdered drink mixes a nutritional boost through the addition of our high-quality vitamins, minerals, and botanical extracts. 

Nutritional nuances

For enhanced and nutritional drinks, it’s all about versatility – and ensuring that whatever the drinking occasion, you’re able to deliver the flavor and wellness benefits that consumers want.

Our team of experts is here to help you, aided by our comprehensive family of long-lasting flavor and nutritional solutions.

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Our solutions & expertise

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Flavor & aroma

If you’re a manufacturer striving to produce food and beverages that taste and smell deliciously appetizing and authentic…you’re in the right place.

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Sugar Reduction

Discover how we can help navigate the complexities of sugar reduction to help create deliciously vibrant, low-sugar foods and beverages.

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Human Insights

Want to increase the speed and success of your food and beverage product development? Our consumer, market and trend insights can make it a reality.

Our ingredients

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Hydrocolloids

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Color

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Enzymes  

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Technical Antioxidants    

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Vitamins, carotenoids & micronutrients

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Premix blends

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