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Hawkins Watts Limited,
43 Maurice Road,
PO Box 12-347, Penrose,
Auckland 1642,
NEW ZEALAND.

T: +64 9 622 2720
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E: sales@hawkinswatts.com
Applications > Beverages > SPORTS BEVERAGES

Sports Beverages

The New Zealand market has seen a huge growth in sports nutrition products, especially beverages. At HWL we have played around with various formulations, and even tested some of the recipes on ourselves! Half the battle is getting a reasonable blend of ingredients that tastes good enough to drink, while still delivering the right balance of sodium, potassium, other minerals and energy.

Ingredient Functionality Ingredient and Benefits
Acidulants
  ADM Citric Acid is a natural acidulant that gives a pleasant acid note.

ATP Tartaric acid
is a natural acidulant, but with a slightly more acidic profile than citric acid.

Other less commonly used acidulants are summarised in the Acidulants section.
Antioxidants
  ADM offers a water-soluble Vitamin E, suitable for use in sports beverage applications.
Colours
  HWL offers a comprehensive range of natural and artificial colours for use in all food and beverage applications.
Our suppliers, Cathay Industries, DD Williamson and Phytone, cover the colour spectrum.
Flavours
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.
Minerals
Exercise produces many changes to the body, including the loss of water and minerals. The addition of minerals to beverages can replace those lost during exercise, allowing for prolonged sports activity and better recovery.

Check out our Minerals selection
ADM Sodium Citrate and ADM 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 developed unique new technology for manufacturing ultra-pure calcium salts with very low levels of aluminium, lead, manganese, iron and other vagrant metals.

Jost also has a comprehensive range of purity salts including ascorbates, carbonates, citrates, fumarates, gluconates, lactates, malates, nitrates, phosphates, succinates and sulphates.  We have found the magnesium citrate to be useful in reducing the incidence of cramping during exercise.

Kirsch Pharma
supplies HWL with a comprehensive range of high quality Inorganic mineral salts for use in beverage fortification.
Nutraceuticals
  HERBAFOOD, 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.

Fibresol-2, manufactured by ADM for Matsutani Japan, 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.

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).
Sweeteners
HWL offers a range of sweeteners including ADM Cornsweet Fructose, which can be used in products where sweetness profile and glucose content need to be controlled. ADM Cornsweet Fructose is a crystalline sweetener with 1.2 - 1.6 times the sweetness of sucrose. ADM Cornsweet Fructose has a low glycaemic index and can enhance the flavour profile in some products such as berry drinks.

High Intensity sweeteners such as sucralose and acesulphame K are also available.

ADM Maltodextrin DE10 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, DE10 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.

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