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Highly diverse and with frequent product launches, it takes speed, flexibility, and great ideas to keep your meat and savory innovation progressing. We provide technical service and support to quickly match changing industry and consumer needs.

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Get clean label, high-performing food colors for meat and savory food production. Order natural colors for natural food and improve your product.

Oterra | Get Oterra Food Coloring for the Best Color Pay-off

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An attractive and appealing sensory experience is important for bouillon or soup products. 

The final product composition, the processing conditions, and most importantly the salt level will impact your choice of natural color. Our yellow to brown shades are perfect choices for a natural bouillon or soup coloring. But if you want to go green, we can get you there too. 

Bouillons and soups

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When it comes to innovation for sauces, dressings, and spreads, the focus is on naturality, with new flavor trends constantly emerging and shaping choices.  

Sauces, dressings, and spreads vary greatly in composition, from water based to water/oil emulsions and oil/water emulsions. Each composition can require food color solutions with different solubility characteristics. We offer a complete range of natural food colors that meet the solubility characteristics of your application. 

Sauces, dressings, and spreads

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The meat category is under increasing scrutiny, and all-natural claims are on the rise. An attractive, fresh appearance matters. 

We provide technical service and support to quickly match whatever shade you need, from an appetizing pink for emulsified sausage to a meaty red for fermented sausage. With Oterra, you can achieve a perfect red for your meat production using natural red coloring.

Meat

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We can help you find the right food color for your seafood product line, including our CapColor® and Vegex® product ranges, which can help you create the perfect shade for your surimi or prepared seafood line. 

Seafood

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With snacking on the rise, providing innovative and diverse sensory experiences for consumers is increasingly important. And if it’s a healthy snack, that’s even more reason to use natural food colors.

Whether a color additive is added to a snack as a dry topical seasoning, pre-dissolved in an oil slurry or added into a culinary seasoning, we can help to match your color of choice. We offer everything from powdered food colors to oil soluble food colors that are available in a wide color range. 

Snacks and seasonings

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Though yellow is traditionally the color of choice for noodles, pasta and rice products, the food color possibilities have expanded to meet consumer demand for new, exciting cuisine choices.

Whether you’re converting to natural, looking for a light shade to highlight the naturality of your product or need an intense clean label color, we have the expertise and knowledge to support your food coloring needs.  

Noodles, pasta, and rice

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With the increasing demand for convenience, breading and batter premixes are a growing application for both the retail and food service sector. 

Heat stability and no color migration to the filling are some of the key functionalities for natural colors for this application. We can help you explore new possibilities and provide technical service and support to quickly match changing industry and consumer needs.  

Breading and batter premixes

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Looking for a plant-based food color for your vegetarian or vegan burger patty that delivers the perfect raw, pinkish-red and becomes delicious brown after cooking? Or a soft, clear pink for your seafood alternative? Color is key to consumer appeal, and the best results are usually achieved with a blend of raw materials. 

Whatever protein source and background color, we can help you achieve the perfect shade with our broad natural color portfolio. 

Plant-based meat and seafood alternatives

Processing, the type and amount of fat and protein, interaction with other ingredients, as well as packaging and storage conditions impact the final color of savory, meat, and meat analogue applications.  

No matter what your formulation, production process, or shelf-life requirements, our natural food colors can help intensify the color of your product and give it a fresh, bright and uniform appearance.  

Savory & Meat

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The beverage industry is very dynamic, and consumers are constantly on the lookout for the next innovation. But they still want to know what’s in the beverages they drink, and it’s important that they contain natural colors and are free from artificial ingredients. 

Pale shades can highlight the naturality of your product, while bright and bold colors can help your products stand out from the crowd. Read about our many different beverage applications and how we can help you achieve exactly the result you want.

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We offer natural food coloring for drinks as powders, liquids, oil-soluble or water-soluble. If you need natural food color, you can get it from Oterra. 

Oterra | Best Food Coloring Options for Beverages

Flavor, type of fortification, pH level, production processes and packaging all matter when formulating your beverage application. Our recommended natural food colors for beverages are thoroughly tested to deliver maximum performance.

Whether you’re converting to natural, launching a functional assortment, or looking for a stand-out new shade to match your latest flavor, we can help you achieve all-out appeal.

Beverage

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Color is a key feature of candy and gum products. As constant innovation is a must, natural food colors can be the differentiator you need to take your colored candy to the next level.

We can help you uncover new opportunities and develop exciting, bright candy that hits the sweet spot and appeals to consumers everywhere. 

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Heat, processing time, water activity and pH levels are just some of the parameters that affect the performance of natural colors. Regardless, color is the ultimate sweet spot for confectionery, whether it’s light, bright or something in-between.
As candy is a hit with kids of all ages, parents are looking for confectionery that’s naturally colored and contains safe ingredients. We’re here to help you achieve striking, fun colors that draw the eye, as well as food coloring that surprises and delights.

Confectionery

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The dairy industry is a front runner in clean label, as consumers look for natural ingredients and labels they can relate to and understand. 

Our natural colors and coloring foods are available in a range of solutions that are stable in a range of process conditions, and in an appealing palette of shades to match your flavor. 

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Get appealing shades of food colors for your production. We have used annatto extract since 1876 and are the leading provider of great, clean colors.

Oterra | Strong, High-Performance Natural Food Colors

Factors such as flavor, formulation, heat, light, pH level, and the base color of your ingredients can influence the final color of fruit preparations, and dairy-based or plant-based applications.  

When you partner with us, you can draw on our deep clean label color know-how to ensure the most stable, stunning result, minimal transfer, and resilient performance in everything from tasty cheeses and probiotic yoghurts to exotic fruit preparations and the coolest dairy or plant-based frozen desserts.  

Dairy, fruit preparations and ice cream

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Visual appeal continues to be one of the main drivers of innovation – and the desire to share. While vibrant food colors are increasingly popular, consumers also expect formulations to remain natural and clean labelled.

Our in-depth understanding of how to apply natural colors to a wide range of bakery and cereal applications gives us the ability to offer technical service and support to quickly match changing industry requirements.

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Use our clean label, cost-effective food colors in your production. Produce bakery and cereals with the best natural ingredients from Oterra.

Oterra | The Best Natural Food Colors for Bakery and Cereals

If base color, high heat, high fat content, or high or low pH levels play a role in your formulation or production process, we can help you find the shade and formulation you need for a truly appetizing result.

And we’re always on-hand to support you with expert guidance and technical advice, from product development and production to stable color throughout your product’s shelf life.

Bakery and cereals

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Consumer demand continues to be strong for natural, simple ingredients in pet food. Our naturally sourced, food-grade coloring ingredients can help to subtly differentiate your product, creating a premium appearance that complements your product’s flavor and mirrors the same rich color palette of the human diet and our own favorite foods.

The raw materials we use are extracted from natural sources such as fruits, vegetables, edible plants and cochineal. All ingredients in our product range are human grade and pet food compliant for cats and dogs. They meet the highest quality and regulatory standards. 

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From dry to wet pet food production, Oterra offers a wide range of safe pet food colors. Improve your production with better natural alternatives. Contact Oterra.

Oterra | Natural, Pet Safe Food Coloring

Pairing your healthy, nutritious pet food with appealing colors from nature is the way to win over pet owners, and their pets.

Our natural coloring ingredients for pet food are formulated to withstand the most demanding processing methods like high heat for the best color performance – and the range is fully compliant and approved for human consumption. And if you’re looking for support to customize new or existing products, we can help troubleshoot any technical challenge.

Pet food

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Consumer preferences for all-natural dietary supplements are on the rise. We offer a full palette of food coloring from natural sources for your dietary and nutritional galenics. With both powder and liquid food color options, we are able to provide you with the exact coloring product for your production needs.

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Get vibrant tablets, capsules or gummies with Oterra's natural color pigments. Contact us to incorporate natural ingredients in your production.

Oterra | Safe, Natural Food Colors for Dietary Supplements

Sourced from fruits, plants and vegetables, the botanicals in our NutriPhy® range are carefully selected and fully traceable. The health benefits of each active compound are scientifically documented and validated. And they’re backed with our regulatory, technical, and scientific support.

To give your dietary supplements a natural color boost, you can complement every product in our NutriPhy® range with our colors from nature in a format to suit your galenic formulation. 

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We can help you do great things with colors from nature. When you work with us, you can choose from the widest range of natural food coloring available, and just as importantly, you can draw on our wealth of experience in applying our food colors to formulations like yours.

As the world's largest supplier of natural food coloring, our natural colors are available as liquids or powders, and as oil soluble or water soluble. Contact us today!

Exceed consumer expectations with innovative, label-friendly food coloring