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Natural colors have staying power

Natural colors have staying power

Keep ‘natural’ colors strong and stable in dairy
Kimberly Decker
September 10, 2018
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We're almost two decades into the 21st century and knee-deep in a near mania for all things "natural." At this point, is there any reason why a dairy developer would continue formulating with synthetic dyes?
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Tangled up in blue (and other natural colors)

Tangled up in blue (and other natural colors)

There was a bumper crop of naturally derived blue colors at this summer’s IFT Expo. Suppliers tell how they help dairies formulate with clean-label colorants that also perform effectively in application.
Kimberly Decker
September 2, 2016
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The consensus following this year’s Institute of Food Technologists’ annual meeting and expo in Chicago is that the trend driving current food and beverage development is clean labeling. But you already knew that.


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spirulina

Slingin’ the blues with spirulina extract

For years, dairy formulators had few FDA-approved naturally derived color options in the green-blue-purple range. That has changed with the allowable use of spirulina extract.
Kimberly Decker
September 6, 2014
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The food and beverage industry whizzed past a major milestone in 2011, when for the first time ever the global value of the natural colorants market exceeded that of its synthetic counterparts.


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