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