Sensient: A World of Color Excellence Among Food Color Manufacturers
Here at Sensient, we are more than food color manufacturers: we are your partner in all things color.
If you are searching for the perfect solution to add color to your product, you’re in the right place. Whether you need help choosing a shade, understanding how color works in an application, or an expert opinion, you are in good company.
Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global natural food color manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, 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:
Based On Integrity & Truth
Safe & Reliable
Professional & Respectful
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 color starts at the source, from the ground, up.
Our unique vertically integrated color 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 synthetic or natural color, our food coloring manufacturers here at Sensient offer a fully comprehensive portfolio of colors and technologies to meet whatever needs you have.
We know color best.
Sensient is a top-tier food color 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 Color Manufacturers
At Sensient, our agronomy efforts are focused on designing “super color crops”. The transition to natural food colors is now broad-based and global in nature.
Our priority at Sensient is to ensure a consistent and growing supply of color 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 color process.
Our natural food dye manufacturing all starts at the seed level. An agronomy program traced back to the seed of a color crop also enables these advantages:
Improved cost over time as agronomists increase pigment levels in key color crops
A reliable and more consistent supply due to a multi-region planting program
Complete food color traceability to the farm level
Discovery of new botanical sources that solve some of the industry’s biggest challenges with natural food color
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 color 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 Color
Source
Our natural colors are sourced from the best ingredients in nature.
Technology
Our technology helps natural colors 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 color–both synthetic and natural–in any application:
FD&C Certified Colors
- Known structure
- Generated via chemical synthesis
- Each batch is certified by the FDA
Colors Exempt from Certification
- Vegetable, animal, and mineral source
- Synthetic duplicates of naturally existing colorants
- Botanical sources protected by Sensient Certasure™
Coloring Foods
- Sourced from fruit and vegetable juice concentrates and extracts
- Careful processing to comply with specific regulations
- Botanical sources protected by Sensient Certasure™
Innovative Solutions for Innovative Customers
At Sensient, we combine technology and expertise to open new color doors for our customers.
Our Natural Colors R&D Program is built on our foundation of innovation and excellence:
- Novel Color Sources & Technologies
- Formulation Systems
- Purification & Extraction Technologies
- Breeding & Cultivation Programs
Natural Innovation Platforms Across the Rainbow
Microfine™
Microfine™ offers an aluminum-free natural color line that mimics synthetic lakes and demonstrates plating abilities
Simplifine™
Simplifine™ helps developers stay compliant with a preservative-free, clean carrier alternative to Microfine™
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
SupraRed™
Enhance product stability and reduce costs with SupraRed™, a concentrated natural color solution that mitigates the issue of unstable red colors under high temperature conditions
Natural Brown Sienna™
Sienna™ is a highly stable natural brown fruit juice for clean label brown formulation across all applications
Natural Blue Butterfly Pea Flower Extract
Butterfly Pea Flower Extract is a novel anthocyanin that is stable in water, versatile under pH ranges, and usable across applications, especially compared to other natural blue sources
Pure-S™
Pure-S™ by Sensient offers a breakthrough in natural color 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 colors and transforms them into a stable water-dispersible solution
Vertafine™
Vertafine™ is a clean label natural green for pet food that is standardized for shade and strength, heat stable under extrusion, and compliant with AAFCO Natural guidelines
Marine Blue™
Marine Blue™ enhances the heat and acid stability and performance of spirulina in multiple applications, reducing specking and precipitation
USDA Organic
Sourced from the purest raw materials, our broad range of Organic Color Solutions are produced in accordance with all regulatory requirements for USDA Certification and deliver the brightest colors nature has to offer
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 color 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 color and supporting your projects:
- Labeling
- Cost in use
- Shade match
- Flavor 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 color 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 Color 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 color 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.
