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Health, wellbeing, and performance are topics that many consumers take an emerging interest in. For the non-alcoholic beverage segment, there is an increasing demand for beverages that offer more than just good taste. Onboard the functional beverage segment or improve your existing line with botanical premix formulas or single botanical extracts.
The natural line, Plantae Performance™ from Layn Natural Ingredients is a series of premix formulas based on botanic extracts with functional properties, allowing for adding extra features to beverages. The line consists of four intriguing premixes with different benefits:
Natural Energy Premix formula
Formula of botanical extracts that help improve sport performance, enhancing endurance and recovery capacity and providing natural energy. The Natural Energy Premix is formulated with pomegranate extract, green coffee bean extract, and lychee extract.
Brain Health Premix formula
Premix formula helping promote mental health by enhancing sleep and mood and improving memory and focus. Brain Health Premix is formulated with rosemary extract, gotu kola extract, and ginkgo biloba extract.
Detox Premix formula
Premix formula of botanical extracts providing a detoxifying effect, improving blood circulation – especially microcirculation – and helping weight management. Detox Premix formula contains gotu kola extract, green tea extract, and lychee extract.
Immune System Premix formula
Immune System Premix formula helps strengthen the immune system through immune response improvement. This premix is formulated with broccoli seeds extract, pomegranate extract, and oregano extract.
All four Premix formulas from the Plantae Performance™ range are stable at low pH (2.5.). Suggested dosage: 0.05-0.1%
When adding functional extracts to beverages, some adjustment may be needed to achieve a perfect taste and profile. The natural line, Plantae Sense™ addresses taste and other sensory aspects of a fulfilling consumer experience, providing solutions for enhancing flavours and taste profile in products. Plantae Sense includes Maskers Formulas offering natural solutions for masking off-taste, bitterness and lingering, and Enhancement Formulas from botanical extracts for enhancement of e.g. sweet flavour. The lines work perfectly with products such as orange juice, black tea drink, carbonated soft drink, flavoured water, and yogurt drinks.
Name of the botanical extracts
Layn Natural Ingredients offers manufacturer-direct control of a full, global supply chain from seed to solution. Every step of their manufacturing process is designed to provide ingredients of highest quality with scaled efficiencies increasing yield, shortening production time, and providing the best in global supply chain security.
Strictly adhering to the International Code Of Conduct, Layn Natural Ingredients is firmly committed to reducing their carbon footprint. With their unique membrane-filtration process, they reduce discharged wastewater by 60%. In addition, they repurpose biomass for use as fertilizer and animal feed.
Plant extracts are key ingredients for boosting beverages whether the aim is to formulate drinks with health benefits or drinks focused on providing energy and increasing performance.
There is a multitude of botanical extracts with different bioactive effects and health benefits to choose from, providing plenty of opportunity to develop beverages targeted specific consumer segments. Examples of popular and trending health benefits which can be obtained from botanical ingredients are:
Below is an extract of some the botanical extracts, we offer for functional beverages with health promoting benefits.
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Botanical extract |
Main active ingredients |
Bioactive efffects |
Health benefits |
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Black Elderberry flower extract |
Flavonoids
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Antioxidants
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Immune system – cold/flu
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Ginkgo Biloba extract |
Terpene trilactones, flavonoid glycosides |
Antioxidants |
Cognitive performance – memory, focus |
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Gotu Kola extract |
Asiaticoside, maecassoside |
Health promoting properties |
Cognitive performance – memory, mood |
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Green Tea extract |
Catechins, epigallocatechin gallate, L-theanine |
Antioxidants |
Detox – weight management, stress relief |
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Guarana extract |
Caffeine |
Antioxidants |
Energy |
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Peppermint extract |
Flavonoids, rosmarinic acid |
Health promoting properties |
Digestive health |
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Pomegranate extract |
Polyphenols, ellagic acid, punicalagin |
Antioxidants |
Sports performance – recovery |
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Rosemary extract |
Rosmarinic acid |
Health promoting properties |
Cognitive performance – sleep |
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Vine leaf extract |
Polyphenols |
Antioxidants |
Capillary health – skin nutrition |
We supply a broad range of botanical extracts which are stable in water and under high acid conditions, and therefore excellent for formulation of e.g. better-for-you beverages and performance-enhancing sports drinks.
Contact us for information about our full range or specific requests
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Our partner EPO Srl. offers botanical extract from more than 300 species from all around the world, but most of the line originate mainly from Italy and Europe including a range of organic plant extracts from carefully selected plant from Northern and Central Italy.
At EPO, all extracting, concentration and drying processes are studied and validated, first by the R&D department and then on industrial scale, to fully respect the integrity of the phytocomplex. The production processes are carried out only with water and ethanol, natural solvents of traditional use, and are therefore safe for human health. All production phases are based on the long expertise using cutting edge technologies, to ensure a minimum impact on the environment.
EPO guarantees the botanical species of its extracts through the DNA barcoding analysis.
Anders Jonsson
Business Development Manager
+46 702 494 945
aj@alsiano.com
