Beta-Carotene

Our highly concentrated, readily dispersible beta-carotene products make it easy to create vivid red-orange products. Beta-carotene is an excellent source of provitamin A and a powerful antioxidant. BASF's products have an outstanding bioavailability, effectively delivering health benefits to your consumers.

Beta-carotene is a carotenoid with health benefits as a provitamin A and is also well known as a colorant for beverage and food applications. Color is often the first sensory interaction a consumer has with a product, prior to tasting or smelling it. Beta-carotene helps you create an alluring, visually appetizing product with brilliant orange-red hues. Its applications include dietary supplements (hard capsules and multi vitamin-mineral tablets), as well as dairy products and dry baking mixes, and beverage compounds, instant beverages, and turbid beverages.

Sources of beta-carotene

Beta-carotene is a well-known carotenoid, which occurs naturally in many fruits and vegetables.

What makes BASF’s products unique?

BASF has more than 150 years’ experience in the dietary supplement, beverage and food industries. This track record provides customers with ease-of-use from order to application. Our technical service goes beyond knowledge of ingredients to include application competency. We have the necessary experience to support our customers growing business, and we extend this experience in line with the highest safety standards and regulatory requirements.

BASF’s carotenoids serve as nutritionally valuable colorants for all different kinds of fat-based and water-based foods. Easy-to-use powders and dispersions are available to meet your needs, as well as vegetarian, allergen-free formulations to reliably match the preferences of today’s consumers.

Our ingredients remain stable during food production and storage, and produce versatile, vibrant colors consumers find attractive. We provide reliable, and stable color hues between yellow, orange and red as well as provide support on color matching. Our nature-identical carotenoids are a viable alternative for azo dyes, which have reported potential  health implications for children.

Our nature-identical colors are stable, cost-effective and come in a reliable supply. They are kosher, halal, allergen, vegan, and gluten-free.

Beta-carotenes are known as health ingredients and are used in several applications in the dietary supplement industry. Furthermore, they are also used as a food colorant for beverage and food applications.

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