Sensient: A World of Colour Excellence Among Food Colour Manufacturers
Here at Sensient, we are more than food colour manufacturers: we are your partner in all things colour.
If you are searching for the perfect solution to add colour to your product, you’re in the right place. Whether you need help choosing a shade, understanding how colour works in an application, or an expert opinion, you are in good company.
Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global natural food colour manufacturer and marketer of colours, flavours, and other specialty ingredients. With innovation at our core, we use proprietary technology and a global reach to create solutions for food and beverage in addition to the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmetic, and personal care industries.
Our business is built on integrity, safety, and professionalism to provide the best possible service to our customers.
Sensient Operates Under Three Core Values:
Integrity & Truth
Safety & Reliability
Professionalism & Respect
For more than 140 years, Sensient has been a leader in food dye manufacturers for improved product performance and stability. Our research and development network stretches across the globe, with application and manufacturing centers in more than 20 countries.
Sensient’s colour starts at the source, from the ground, up.
Our unique vertically integrated colour production strategy begins with active seed development and various agronomy initiatives across all key botanicals.
Safety is our top priority.
Our Certasure™ food safety program makes us a leader in protocols for ingredients from natural sources, unmatched in the industry.
We’re here to serve you.
Whether you need colouring foods, natural colouring, or synthetic, our food colouring manufacturers here at Sensient offer a fully comprehensive portfolio of colours and technologies to meet whatever needs you have.
We know colour best.
Sensient is a top-tier food colour manufacturing service provider with expert technical support, unparalleled reliability, and a supply chain you can count on.
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Global Footprint – A Strategic Advantage
Sensient: Secure Food Colour Manufacturers
At Sensient, our agronomy efforts are focused on designing “super colour crops”. The transition to natural food colours is now broad-based and global in nature.
Our priority at Sensient is to ensure a consistent and growing supply of colour crop production to meet the demand at every stage of the production process.
Through breeding & genetics, agricultural research & development, seed production, and socially responsible sourcing, Sensient has built a secure supply chain at every stage of the colour process.
Our natural food dye manufacturing all starts at the seed level. An agronomy program traced back to the seed of a colour crop also enables these advantages:
Improved cost over time as agronomists increase pigment levels in key colour crops
A reliable and more consistent supply due to a multi-region planting program
Complete food colour traceability to the farm level
Discovery of new botanical sources that solve some of the industry’s biggest challenges with natural food colour
Ability to positively impact people around the world with programs benefiting local economies in a socially responsible manner
At Sensient, we proudly promote social and environmental stewardship in natural colour farming, including strategies like partnering with growers, maximizing land productivity, and intercropping.
We’re Committed to Sustainability
Our team is always looking for ways to reduce carbonization, be a good steward of water and natural resources, and lead the charge in sustainable and socially responsible practices.
We deliver safe and high-quality products while upholding the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, respect, and safety for our customers, employees, suppliers, and the people, communities, and environment in which we interact.
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Full Spectrum of Food Colour
Source
Our colouring foods and natural colours are sourced from the best ingredients in nature.
Technology
Our technology helps natural colouring perform their best in any application.
Application
Our team of technical experts works alongside developers to understand the best solutions.
Sensient offers a range of options for food colour–both synthetic and natural–in any application:
Colouring Foods
- Originating from traditional foods such as vegetables and fruits
- Careful processing to secure the sensitive pigment components of the natural raw materials
- Complying with the NATCOL Code of Practice in conjunction with EU and national appropriate legislations
- Botanical sources protected by Sensient Certasure™
Natural Colours
- Based on the coloring principles found in nature
- Derived from selected vegetables, fruits, plants, minerals, and other edible natural sources
- Botanical sources protected by Sensient Certasure™
Synthetic Colours
- Known structure
- Generated via chemical synthesis
- Each batch is FD&C certified by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Innovative Solutions for Innovative Customers
At Sensient, we combine technology and expertise to open new colour doors for our customers.
Our Natural Colours R&D Program is built on our foundation of innovation and excellence:
- Novel Colour Sources & Technologies
- Formulation Systems
- Purification & Extraction Technologies
- Breeding & Cultivation Programs
Natural Innovation Platforms Across the Rainbow
Microfine™
Microfine™ offers an aluminum-free natural colour line that mimics synthetic lakes and demonstrates plating abilities
Avalanche™
Avalanche™ from Sensient offers a suite of revolutionary solutions for achieving opacity and whitening in food and beverage products without the use of Titanium Dioxide, ensuring both product quality and consumer safety
Uberbeet
Enhance product stability and reduce costs with Uberbeet™, a range of concentrated natural colouring solutions that mitigate the issue of unstable red colours under high temperature conditions
Natural Brown
The natural alternative to caramel colours: unique combinations of different natural colours in a comprehensive range of brown shades
Pure-S™
Pure-S™ by Sensient offers a breakthrough in natural colour solutions by harnessing the power of paprika without the unwanted odor, providing unparalleled sensory performance previously unattainable in the market
AET™
Sensient’s AET™ and equipment innovatively decrease the particle size of oil-soluble colours and transforms them into a stable water-dispersible solution
Marine Blue™
Marine Blue™ enhances the heat and acid stability and performance of spirulina in multiple applications, reducing specking and precipitation
Advanced Dispersion Technology
Industry leading advanced dispersion stability and superior color performance in end application with increased vividness and color intensity
Cardea™
Entirely composed of natural ingredients and concentrates, meeting growing clean labelling demands
Making Sensient’s Rainbow Work for You
Sensient is not only one of the best food dye manufacturers in the world, but also your partner in all things colour support.
Our team is committed to the highest level of support at all stages of production.
Because shade preference is subjective, we offer an array of options so you can make the best decision for your business.
There are many factors that we take into consideration when manufacturing food colour and supporting your projects:
- Labeling
- Cost in use
- Shade match
- Flavour profile
- Product format
- Regional permissibility
- Packaging type
- Speed to market
- Total cost
- Minimum order quantity
- Shelf life
- Usage rate
Thanks to the depth and breadth of our colour portfolio, as well as decades of combined industry expertise, our lab professionals are available to help you bring new product ideas to life.
A Rainbow of Colour Inspiration from Sensient
Beverage
Dairy
Confection
pet
Baked Goods
Processed
Plant based
Discover Our Other Sensient Markets
Sensient Technologies Corporation has facilities around the world that produce a broad range of innovative products beyond food colour manufacturing for many of the world’s best-known consumer and industrial companies. We provide customized food and beverage systems, as well as products that serve the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmetic, and personal care industries.
