Achieve the perfect balance in your products by elevating flavor profiles while maintaining the pH balance
To enhance flavor, formulators often experiment with acids. However, acids lower pH, which can lead to functional issues such as sugar inversion and loss of product structure. Buffers are used to regulate pH, but they also have an untapped ability to impact flavor.
Achieving taste perfection and preserving product integrity is vital in the world of food formulation. Acidity control is key, as acids can disrupt pH, leading to issues like sugar inversion and compromised food-matrix structure. At Bartek, our portfolio of buffers not only ensures precise pH control, even with higher acid levels, but also unlocks untapped flavor potentials.
Uplift™ Taste Modification Technology engages the flavor-modifying benefits of buffers to unleash a uniquely broader range of taste profiles, such as heightened intensity, complexity, and longer-lasting flavor.
Deliver an unmatched flavor experience with Uplift™
Enhancing and modulating taste
in confectionery, beverages, and VMS applications
Creating a juicy, authentic fruit flavor profile
that elevates and persists
Precisely controlling sour
including onset, peak, and linger
Introducing Uplift™
Make the Most of Your Flavor Library
Differentiating your product can often come down to taste. But, pinpointing the perfect profile to make your drink unique may require some customizing… adding yet another round of contenders to the collection of flavors already in your library. With varying usage rates and shelf-life limitations, an accumulation of flavors can become unmanageable and result in costly disposal of expired, unused flavors.
Uplift™ Taste Modification Technology can help reign in the ever-growing inventory of flavors collecting at your bench and on the production floor by allowing you to modify and enhance the characteristics of approved flavors already existing in your library.
Offered in two varieties – Uplift™ SM and Uplift™ PM – our flavor modulating malate salts can add just the right impact and finishing qualities to meet your specific profile needs.
An opportunity for novel tastes
A new experience for consumers
Formulators know sodium citrate for controlling pH in processing and finished product, and consumers are familiar with the typical flavor profiles it delivers. But today’s consumers are looking for new experiences and flavor profiles to entice their palates. Regardless of the gelling agent used (e.g., pectin, gelatin), formulators can now deliver on consumer demands for taste, flavor, sourness, and indulgence like never before.
Gummies made with Uplift™ SM sodium hydrogen malate and Uplift™ PM potassium hydrogen malate show distinctly different flavor profiles than those achievable with sodium citrate. Additionally, gummies made with Uplift™ PM deliver longer-lasting flavor for an extended taste experience.
Elevate your product portfolio with Uplift™, Bartek’s acidulant-based ingredient technology
At Bartek, we apply lessons from our decades of experience applying acidulants and buffers to address today’s challenges in the confectionery, beverage, and supplement industries. Uplift™ demonstrates Bartek’s commitment to deliver innovate solutions that create value for and address the needs of today’s leading brands and formulators for the benefit of the consumer.
Want to find out more about how Bartek’s innovative technologies can improve your formulation experience? Please reach out to us to schedule a call by emailing info@bartek.ca, and in the meantime, fill out the form at the right to download a success story!