Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, Inc.

Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, Inc.

Beverages

Create great tasting, sugar-like formulations with our ingredient solutions.

We understand what it takes to make your beverage a success

Formulating for beverage success comes natural to Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition.  Our decades of global sweetener expertise and custom flavor enhancement knowledge make us a trusted partner for your solution needs.  From sugar reduction to clean, sweet taste and flavor enhancement, we are are ready to help you formulate for success.   

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Tackling Tough Beverage Challenges

We understand the complexities of beverage formulation and are ready to tackle your toughest formulation concerns.

Delicious sugar reduction

Reducing sugar in a beverage can often lead to unfavorable taste and reduced mouthfeel. Our portfolio of ingredients optimizes for clean, sugar-like taste as well as texture in your beverage with zero or low calories on the label.

Standard of identity

Formulating a beverage with a standard of identity, such as flavored milk, is a challenge. We have ingredients that allow you to reduce sugar and enhance flavor while maintaining the identity standard of the beverage.

True-to-fruit flavor

Authentic taste is top of mind in today's consumers, and they want their beverages to deliver trusted deliciousness. Enhance citrus notes with our solutions and achieve true-to-fruit flavor in soft drinks, sports drinks, and more.

Delivering Solutions for Beverage Success

Ingredient solutions crafted to support your formulation projects and elevate delicious, sugar-like taste

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Clean sweeteners with no off-tastes that need to be masked

Achieve great taste while reducing off-flavor notes, astringency and sugar.

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Simplify ingredient statements

Simplify your ingredient statement by including our flavors with modifying properties (FMPs) within an existing “natural and artificial flavors” statement.

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Improve taste without changing the label

Enliven overall taste and flavor without adding to your ingredient list with a taste enhancement that makes sugar reduction easy.

Featured Products

Aspartame

The world's best high potency sweetener for sugar-like taste.

Food-Grade Amino Acids

The highest quality amino acids to enrich your products.

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