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Cheers to health, energy and wellness
Taiyo offers innovative ingredients for holistic
beverage concepts
Looking at today’s consumer needs, they want beverages that are natural, offer both health
benefits and added functionalities, and taste great. What’s more, they want it all in one bottle! With
its range of functional ingredients, Taiyo offers many new ways to provide fibre enrichment, vitamin
and mineral fortification, the benefits of phytosterols and antioxidants – and a gentle energy boost
– in just one product. With its portfolio of superfruits, tea extracts, fibre products and many more,
the Japan-based ingredients specialist is an expert developer of holistic concepts that convince
both manufacturers and consumers.
The ‘Perfect Tea’ concept
Tea is the most popular drink in the
world, and products containing
tea-based ingredients are on the
rise. With Sunphenon ® Instant
Teas, Taiyo offers the ideal base
for delicious drinks with added
functionalities that are convenient
to prepare and retain all the
beneficial properties of tea. Using
a solvent-free, double water
infusing brewing process that
utilises 1kg of tea leaves per every
20L of water, Taiyo’s instant tea
extracts contain far higher levels
of amino acids and polyphenols
than could be achieved by
traditional tea brewing at home.
The result is a highly soluble
powder that delivers a perfectly
rounded, full-flavoured tea taste in
hot, cold and ice-cold water
without any bitterness. Available in
specially selected Black, Green
and White Tea, Oolong, Matcha
and Pu-Erh variants, these
extracts can be combined with
active ingredients, sweeteners and
different flavourings and packed in
sticks or jars. Alternatively, they
can be used to manufacture teabased
RTD beverages or sports
and wellness drinks, providing the
perfect base as well as added
health benefits
Megatrend fibre enrichment
Paying tribute to one of today’s
biggest nutrition trends, Taiyo
offers fibre enrichment solutions
for both food products and drinks.
Because of today’s modern eating
habits and taste preferences,
many Western consumers aren’t
eating enough whole grains,
legumes, fruits or vegetables,
which are important sources of
dietary fibre. Therefore, the
fortification or supplementation of
foods and beverages with dietary
fibre offers a promising approach
to improving fibre intake.
By combining
Sunphenon ® Instant
Tea powders with
Sunfiber ® , a fibreenriched
tea drink can
be produced that
makes adding fibre to
daily diets easy and
delicious
Taiyo has pioneered dietary fibre
research for more than 20 years.
Offering new ways to close the
fibre gap, its Sunfiber ingredient
provides a simple way to increase
everyday fibre consumption,
combining an excellent taste
profile with all the nutritional
benefits and health-boosting
properties of dietary fibre.
Sunfiber ® is made from a naturally
occurring raw material, indian guar
beans, which is suitable for use in
a variety of foods and beverages
and has no organoleptic impact on
the flavour, colour, consistency or
aroma of the products to which it’s
added. By combining Sunphenon ®
Instant Tea powders with
Sunfiber ® , a fibre-enriched tea
drink can be produced that makes
adding fibre to daily diets easy and
delicious. This so called ‘Fiber-Tea’
concept is the ideal fibre source
for all target groups.
Adding vitamins and minerals
Fortified functional drinks are
highly popular, but not all
micronutrients and minerals are
easy to incorporate, nor are they
naturally highly bioavailable.
Often, the challenge is that iron,
fat-soluble vitamins and
coenzymes can be highly reactive
and have undesirable side-effects.
Taiyo’s delivery system,
SunActive ® , facilitates the
processing of micronutrients and
minerals and, at the same time,
improves the sensory properties
and reduces unwanted taste
issues. With SunActive ® , the
dosage levels of some nutrients
can actually be reduced, and
minerals such as iron, for instance,
become far better tolerated.
The high reactivity of iron means
that iron fortified products oxidize
very quickly; they turn an unsightly
brown colour and produce an
intense metallic flavour that’s
difficult to mask. A far greater
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