Food ingredients - Hawkins Watts New Zealand - Applications

Acidulants

Citric acid is a natural acidulant that gives a pleasant acid note.

Tartaric acid from Australian Tartaric Products is also a natural acidulant, but with a slightly more acidic profile than citric acid.

Other less commonly used acidulants are summarised in the Acidulants section.

Vitamin E

Antioxidant

ADM offers a water-soluble Vitamin E, suitable for use in sports beverage applications.

Natural Colours, Artificial Colours

Colour

Hawkins Watts New Zealand offers a comprehensive range of natural and artificial colours for use in all beverage applications.

Our suppliers, Cathay Industries, DD Williamson and Phytone, cover the colour spectrum.

Flavours

Flavour

Flavour has a huge impact on the intake of beverages during exercise, especially when extra minerals are added.

Symrise can offer suitable flavours to mask various ingredients. Please contact us for more information.

Calcium salts

Minerals

The addition of minerals to beverages can replace those lost during exercise, allowing for prolonged sports activity and better recovery.

Jost Chemicals has developed unique new technology for manufacturing ultra-pure calcium salts with very low levels of aluminium, lead, manganese, iron and other vagrant metals.

Magnesium Citrate

We have found the magnesium citrate to be useful in reducing the incidence of cramping during exercise.

Potassium Citrate, Sodium Citrate

Sodium Citrate and Potassium Citrate are ideal salts for use in sports beverages. They have a lower salt perception in comparison with sodium and potassium chloride and are made to strict USP / BP standards.

Jost Chemicals has a comprehensive range of purity salts including ascorbates, carbonates, citrates, fumarates, gluconates, lactates, malates, nitrates, phosphates, succinates and sulphates.

Kirsch Pharma supplies Hawkins Watts New Zealand with a comprehensive range of high quality inorganic mineral salts for use in beverage fortification.

For more information, see our minerals selection

Citrus Fibre

Nutraceuticals

Herbafood Ingredients, a division of Herbstreith & Fox, has a range of apple and citrus-derived fibres, including Herbacel AQ Plus Citrus Fibre. These fibres have very high water-holding capacity and have shown to sequester heavy metals, as well as promoting good intestinal health.

Resistant maltodextrin

Fibresol-2 from Matsutani is a unique, low-viscosity fibre that is highly soluble, yet contributes very little to taste or texture. This resistant maltodextrin will readily disperse and dissolve in water to form clear transparent solutions. It is very stable, yet contributes significantly to the analytical fibre content of products.

Spirulina

Hawaiian Spirulina, from Cyanotech is a micro-algae that is high in all-vegetable protein, rich in beta carotene, iron, vitamin B-12 and the rare, essential fatty acid, GLA. It offers a striking profile of vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients.

Spirulina beta carotene is ten times more concentrated than carrots. Spirulina also has the broad range of amino acids, along with iron and contains the essential fatty acid Gamma-linolenic acid (GLA).

Acesulphame K

Sweeteners

Acesulphame K is a high Intensity sweetener

Fructose

Cornsweet Fructose from ADM is a crystalline sweetener with 1.2 to 1.6 times the sweetness of sucrose. ADM Cornsweet Fructose can be used in products where sweetness profile and glucose content need to be controlled.

ADM Cornsweet Fructose also has a low glycaemic index and can enhance the flavour profile in some products such as chocolate drinks.

Maltodextrin

Clintose CR10 maltodextrin from ADM has been purified using ion exchange technology and will readily dissolve in water to give a clear colourless solution. Despite being a relatively large molecule, ADM Clintose CR10 maltodextrin has a high glycaemic index and is easily digested, providing quick energy.

We find that a combination of Fructose and Maltodextrin works well together.

Stevia

Stevia from Daepyung is a natural high-intensity sweetener and sugar substitute extracted from the Stevia plant with applications in low-sugar formulations.

Sucralose

Sucralose is a high Intensity sweetener

Sweetness enhancer

SymLife® Sweet from Symrise is a flavouring which enhances sweetness, while allowing sucrose levels to be reduced by as much as 30%. SymLife® Sweet works well in combination with artificial sweeteners to help round out the aftertaste.