| Citric Acid |
Acidulants
The addition of a small amount of acid with sweeteners
can enhance the flavour perception of flavoured waters. |
Citric
Acid is a natural acidulant that
gives a pleasant acid note. |
| Tartaric Acid |
|
Tartaric Acid from Australian
Tartaric Products 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. |
| Ascorbic
Acid |
Antioxidant |
Antioxidants
such as ascorbic acid can be added
to ensure good stability. |
| 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 |
Whether
still or sparkling, Symrise has
a great range of flavours to add a sophisticated
edge to water. |
|
Pectin |
Gums, hydrocolloids,
thickeners, stabilisers |
Instant
CJ204 from Herbstreith
and Fox is an agglomerated
pectin which
provides extra mouthfeel and improved flavour release
to beverages. |
| Xanthan Gum |
|
Xanthan Gum is
often used to provide viscosity in flavoured waters
due to the low dosages needed. It is also very
stable to acid, temperature and enzymes. Hawkins
Watts New Zealand has high clarity versions specifically
designed for this application. |
| Calcium
Carbonate,
Calcium Citrate |
Minerals
Many manufacturers choose to add
additional minerals to flavoured waters. Typically
these include calcium in a number of formats, but other
minerals can also be added. |
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.
Calcium Citrate from Jost Chemicals is a
fine powdered material, with low levels of aluminium,
suited to specialty mineral applications
Calcium Carbonate from Kirsch
Pharma is
a fine powdered material suitable
for inclusion in dairy beverages.
Kirsch Pharma supplies Hawkins
Watts New Zealand with a comprehensive range of high
quality inorganic mineral salts for
use in beverage fortification. |
| Fructose |
Sweeteners |
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 is suitable for use at
very low dose rates, especially in combination
with high intensity sweeteners such as sucralose. |
| 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. |
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