For health supplement and daily supplement manufacturers, the efficacy of nutritional ingredients is the core of product competitiveness. However, due to the unique taste or unpleasant flavor of these nutritional ingredients (like amino acids, collagen peptides, and some plant extracts), consumer acceptance can be reduced. To solve this problem, it is necessary to add appropriate blendings of natural sweeteners and food grade flavor in formulations. By doing so, nutritional and daily supplements manufacturers not only covers the unpleasant flavor, but also create a pleasant, natural taste while maintaining nutritional value, thereby improving product market acceptance and increase repurchasing rate in their target markets.
Stevia Sweetener for Sweetness
As one natural zero-calorie sweetener extracted from natural stevia leaves, stevia sweetener has the sweetness 300 to 450 times than sucrose does. Moreover, stevia sweetener has no glycemic impact and no bitter aftertaste after properly processed. If your nutritional supplements emphasize "natural, healthy, and sugar-free," stevia sweetener can be an ideal choice with characteristics of vegan-friendly, free from allergens, conforming with clean-label conception, providing clean and mild sweetness.
Food Grade Flavor for Better Taste & Flavor
To endow nutritional and daily supplements with better taste and flavor, it is critical to choose appropriate food grade flavor. The key to choose flavor depends on pH value, temperature during production, storage conditions, solubility, and the flavor of nutritional ingredients, etc. For example, when it is concerned with plant extracts with bitter taste, natural fruit flavor or natural herbal flavor is recommended. These two flavor types effectively masks bitterness while adding fresh and natural taste
Next, choosing the right food grade flavor essence to match stevia is critical. The choice of flavor should be based on the type of herbal raw material and the target consumer group. For example, for herbal supplements with a strong bitter taste (such as ginseng, astragalus, and bitter melon), fruit flavors (such as orange, lemon, and berry) or herbal flavors (such as licorice) are recommended — these flavors can effectively mask bitterness while adding a fresh, natural taste. As for end products that you wanna endow with dairy flavor, milk and honey flavor can be an ideal choice to create a mellow aroma and smooth mouthfeel, which brings better consumer experience.
Key for Stevia Sweetener and Flavor Blendings
The key to prefectly blend stevia sweetener and food grade flavor into your formulations lies in the ratio and the time. The sweetness intensity of stevia sweetener varies by the purity, high purity like 95% steviol glycosides delivers a smoothier and more consistent sweetness, requiring less dosage to achieve the desired taste and mouthfeel. Generally the recommended dosage of stevia glycosides is 0.1% to 0.5%,with the dosage of food flavor is 0.05% to 0.2%, depending on the flavor intensity and nutritional ingredients situation. In terms of the time, stevia glycosides should be added during the mixture of ra ingredients to ensure uniform dissolution, while flavor should be added after high-temperature production procedure to avoid flavor loss caused by high heat, which is especially important for heat-sensitive flavors and high-temperature processed supplements like liquid or powdered nutritional and daily supplements formulations.
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Post time: May-19-2026