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Excipients

Enhancing Probiotic Formulations for Optimal Health

Excipients are essential for the performance and stability of probiotic products. These inactive ingredients are created to help protect live microorganisms from environmental stressors such as moisture, heat, and oxygen. Commonly found in tablets, capsules, various foods, powders, and beverages, their role is critical in ensuring that probiotics remain active and beneficial from production through consumption.  

What are Excipients?

Our excipients are manufactured to provide unique benefits in probiotic manufacturing. Excipients preserve low water activity to ensure probiotic viability while delivering synergistic health benefits.  

By enhancing shelf life, supporting controlled release, and preserving probiotic viability, excipients contribute to the effectiveness and quality of probiotic supplements and functional foods. 

Key Features of Excipients

Agglomeration

Reduces dustiness, improves solubility, and improves flowability

Low Water Activity (LWA)

Probiotic viability is negatively affected above 0.100aw, LWA products require less overage of active ingredient, LWA excipients ensure probiotic viability over shelf life   

Support Wellness Needs

  • Full probiotic effect
  • Prebiotic option (inulin)
  • Low glycemic option (isomalt) 
  • Clean label with simple ingredient statements 
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Function and Performance:

To ensure the effectiveness and stability of probiotic formulations, various types of excipients are utilized. Each category serves a specific purpose, contributing to the overall quality and functionality of the final product.  

  • Support the taste of the final product– Taste Maskers
  • Add volume to the formulation- Bulking Agents 
  • Support the flowability of powders- Flow Agents
  • Maintain the stability of probiotics- Stabilizers 

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