Achieve the perfect balance in your gummies 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 both confectionery and VMS applications
Creating a juicy, authentic fruit flavor profile
that persists throughout chew time
Precisely controlling sour
including onset, peak, and linger
Introducing Uplift™
Design gummy experiences unlike any other
We created Uplift™ for gummies and jellies. 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.
Uplift™ is a fantastic addition to the formulator’s toolbox, taking buffers beyond stabilizing pH. It enables formulators to enhance the onset, peak, and linger of sour flavor profiles in their products. The creator of the new winning gummy products can also intensify juicy and tart notes, prolong their presence throughout the chewing process, and ultimately deliver an unparalleled eating experience.
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.
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 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 experience formulating gummies? 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!
