Natural chemistry for clean-label food & beverage
Safe, stable, compliant.
Consumers increasingly expect short, transparent labels built on recognizable ingredients. For food and beverage companies, this means replacing synthetic additives with nature-derived alternatives that consumers trust. But making the switch is complex: new formulations must remain safe, stable, functional, and fully compliant with stringent regulations across markets.
Leveraging our expertise in natural chemistry and rigorous scientific methodology, we develop and characterise high-performance nature-derived ingredients, enabling your company to transition to reliable, clean-label formulations with confidence, without compromising on quality, safety, or functionality.
Natural chemistry services for food and beverage
We use a comprehensive spectrum of analytical chemistry tests, such as compositional characterization, quality and purity analysis, functional performance, and stability studies, to provide robust, scientific evidence that supports cleaner labels, stronger health positioning, and more sustainable formulations.
Formulation and ingredient performance
Formulation stability and shelf-life validation
Claim
substantiation
Agri and food residues valorisation
Formulation and ingredient performance
Replacing synthetic additives with natural alternatives requires a deep understanding of how a clean-label candidate behaves in a complex formulation, and why. We enable that understanding through rigorous, mechanism-based chemical analysis.
Ingredient functionality evaluation
How does a specific nature-derived ingredient behave in your product?
We evaluate functional effects such as antioxidant performance, flavour protection, colour stability, and other key performance attributes in real food matrices.
Additive replacement & benchmarking
Can a nature-derived ingredient replace an existing additive without compromising performance?
We evaluate natural candidates and benchmark them against the current formulation system to quantify differences in stability, functionality, and overall performance.
Formulation optimization
How can the formulation be adjusted so that natural ingredients perform reliably?
We identify optimal ingredient combinations, concentrations, and formulation conditions to ensure robust performance in clean-label formulations.
The data we obtain can also form part of the scientific evidence to substantiate product claims.
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Even when a clean-label formulation performs well initially, long-term stability is critical for achieving the required shelf life and market success. Oxidation, colour degradation, texture and flavour changes, or loss of antimicrobial protection can lead to consumer complaints, product recalls, and regulatory scrutiny.
To mitigate these risks, we conduct comprehensive stability testing. The resulting data packages cover oxidation behaviour, colour retention, texture, and overall product integrity under realistic storage conditions. These analyses reveal how nature-derived ingredients protect formulations over time and how their performance compares with conventional systems.
Clear interpretation of the results helps your teams define reliable shelf life and demonstrate that nature-derived ingredients can match or even outperform synthetics, creating opportunities for differentiated clean-label products.
Formulation stability and shelf-life validation
Claims substantiation
Making a claim about your product means being ready to defend it with robust, documented evidence. We provide the scientific data to substantiate claims and help ensure they are compliant, defensible, and trusted by regulators, retailers, and consumers.
Clean-label claims
Analytical verification demonstrating the absence of synthetic additives and supporting natural or clean-label positioning.
Functional performance claims
Scientific data showing how ingredients protect formulations and perform over time (stability and shelf-life).
Nutritional & compositional claims
Compositional analysis confirming ingredient content and nutrient levels.
Evidence packages for audits & approvals
Documented data aligned with safety authority expectations, helping your teams defend claims during audits and regulatory review.
→ Launch stable, safe, and compliant clean-label products
→ Replace synthetic ingredients with nature-derived alternatives
→ Support product claims with scientifically substantiated evidence and build trust with regulators, safety authorities, retailers, and consumers
→ Get audit-ready documentation aligned with EFSA and national authority expectations
→ Strengthen your supply resilience through locally sourced ingredients
Strengthen your company’s resilience by confidently transitioning to safe, stable, and sustainable clean-label formulations.
Bio-circular value from Agri and Food residues
Activate new revenue streams using our natural chemistry expertise.
Agriculture and food production generate large secondary biomass streams that often remain underutilised.
Using sustainable green chemistry processes, we help transform these residues into high-value ingredients and functional compounds.
Our goal is to create economic, environmental, and strategic advantages for producers and processors across the agri-food value chain.
Valorisation strategy tailored to residue streams
We design circular, low-waste processes that prioritize coproduct valorisation over a single-extract isolation, with scalability and regulatory compliance built in from the start.
Deep chemical analysis
To identify high-value molecular targets and assess their functional and market potential.
Process design and optimisation
For robust, scalable extraction or bioconversion pathways.
Sustainability & circularity assessment
To strengthen ESG positioning, support future-proof branding, and demonstrate alignment with emerging bioeconomy and sustainability frameworks.
Discover the natural value hidden in your biomass streams.
Natural vanillin
Premium flavour | Antioxidant | 100% EU biomass
Vanillin is essential to the food and beverages industry, yet most of its global supply is still derived from petrochemical sources (85%). With over 60% of global vanillin consumption, the food sector remains the ingredient’s primary application area.
With growing instability in global supply chains and increasing pressure for natural, traceable, and environmentally responsible ingredients, it’s time to rethink vanillin’s sourcing strategies and switch to scalable alternatives.
Our vanillin comes from upcycled, 100% EU biomass, offering a bio-circular alternative that is safe, reliable, and aligned with regulatory requirements and market expectations.
We focus on advancing production pathways that enable:
Batch-to-batch consistency
Improved process efficiency
High-volume scalability
Stable and secure supply
Driving circularity and self-sustaining production models
The future of food and beverage is clean label
Food and beverage manufacturers are steadily moving away from synthetic additives toward nature-derived ingredients. Regulatory developments, improving cost parity, supply security, and changing consumer expectations are all contributing to this shift.
This change is both a requirement and an opportunity.
Drawing on decades of expertise in natural chemistry, we assist companies in replacing synthetic systems with safe, stable, and scientifically substantiated clean-label alternatives.
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