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Chr. Hansen launches Hansen sweet potato™ – the secret behind the market’s best carmine alternative!

fdturkey by fdturkey
30/04/2019
in News, Product News
2 min read

Developing natural ingredient solutions for the food, nutritional, pharmaceutical and agricultural industries, Chr. Hansen’s decade-long breeding program results in a new and unique sweet potato that is the raw material confecting vibrant alternatives to carmine and synthetic reds
What happens when colors from natural sources are not enough to satisfy discerning consumers? You develop a new source.
Chr. Hansen has commercialized a new vegetable variety – the Hansen sweet potato™ Ipomoea batatas – using traditional breeding methods to developing the long-sought after vibrant, natural red alternative to carmine.
“For the first time, we’ve made a whole new variety of vegetable to compose the natural color our customers are asking for,” says Jakob Dalmose Rasmussen, vice president, Commercial Development at Chr. Hansen Natural Colors.
“We call it the Hansen sweet potato™. Over 10 years ago, we discovered a promising pigment in a root vegetable’s tuber, but the plant’s pigment content was on the low side. We took this plant and embarked on a process of selective breeding using traditional, non-GMO methods. The result is a plant-based, brilliant red that gives our customers a natural alternative to carmine and synthetic colors,” adds Dalmose Rasmussen.
It all starts with the right raw material
Chr. Hansen has a team of experienced experts to develop new and refined raw materials using selective breeding. To do it they collaborate with colleagues, growers and scientists around the world.
“It all starts with the right raw material. Our plant scientists spent years cultivating and selecting generation after generation of seedlings. We partnered with growers to learn the best ways to plant, nurture and harvest the Hansen sweet potato™. And we perfected methods of handling, transportation and extraction. The result is the Hansen sweet potato™ with its unique combination of high yield, brilliant color and high per-plant pigment load,” explains Luc Ganivet, vice president, Innovation and Application at Chr. Hansen Natural Colors.
A bright red carmine alternative
The Hansen sweet potato™ is the basis for Chr. Hansen’s recently launched FruitMax® line of bright-red solutions that solve some of the biggest challenges of previously available natural red colors.
“Strawberry red is a popular shade for food products – from cakes to confectionary to milkshakes. But until now it has been nearly impossible to make a fire-engine red color with no risk of off-taste without using carmine. And as consumers move towards vegetarian and vegan food choices, the need for a carmine alternative has become more pressing. Our new FruitMax® red juice concentrates are 100% plant based and provide a new solution to our customers looking to respond to this consumer trend,” concludes Dalmose Rasmussen.
Chr. Hansen’s new FruitMax™ Orange and recently launched FruitMax® reds are based on Hansen sweet potato™ blends, are minimally processed and meet the EU requirements for Coloring Foodstuffs.
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