Whiteners for Foods & Beverages

ADM’s PearlEdge™ portfolio gives you bold whitening capabilities with a cleaner label.1 With our naturally derived whiteners, achieve bright white hues in food and beverage applications without unwanted ingredients like titanium dioxide. 

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Benefits of ADM’s PearlEdge™ Portfolio

Meet consumer demand for recognizable, cleaner-label ingredients while ensuring excellent performance, coverage, and consistency needed for your food or beverage product. 

Consistent & Stable Performance

Even coating, color, and texture in challenging applications like panned confectionery.

Versatility Across Applications

We can solve challenges in different applications with our PearlEdge™ portfolio.

Customized Formulations & Blends

Achieve desired opacity, brightness, and visual effects with tailored solutions.

Regulatory & Standards Compliance

Expert guidance to ensure your product meets relevant local and global regulations.

Naturally Derived Ingredients

Our raw materials, such as corn and rice, are transformed via proprietary technology.

Enhanced Visual Appeal

Cloudiness, opacity, or whitening in foods and beverages.

Whitening Solutions for Foods & Beverages

Whether you’re developing confectionery, sauces, or beverages, ADM’s PearlEdge™ portfolio offers the right formulation for whitening solutions without titanium dioxide.

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Non-Alcoholic Beverages

Our proprietary emulsion technology provides whitening and opacity in a variety of drink applications. 

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Alcoholic Beverages

For ready-to-drink cocktails and other alcoholic beverages, our advanced technology delivers opacity or cloud with a cleaner label. 

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Baked Goods and Cereal

Bring cleaner-label whitening to cakes, cookies, cereal, and more with solutions designed for high-temperature processing. 

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Sweet Snacks and Confectionery

The PearlEdge™ portfolio provides smooth finishes, bright whites, and optimal performance in panned confections and sweet snacks. 

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Dairy and Dairy Alternatives

Our whitening and opacity solutions provide robust stability in all types of pH systems and processing conditions.

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Savory Snacks and Seasonings

Get optimal performance with cleaner-label whitening solutions suitable for a variety of snack foods. 

Whitening Solutions for Foods & Beverages
 
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Savory Foods

From ready meals to meat alternatives, we can help solve whitening challenges with our PearlEdge™ proprietary technology. 

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Sauces, Dressings, and Marinades

For cleaner-label whitening or brightening, PearlEdge™ technology can provide the solution. 

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Pet Food

Create appealing pet food that’s sure to please furry friends with our proprietary technology. 

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Address Demand for Cleaner Labels & Recognizable Ingredients

Achieving cleaner-label whitening of foods and beverages can be a challenge. However, increasing consumer demand for more recognizable food ingredients and stricter regulations has demanded innovative solutions. ADM’s PearlEdge™ portfolio offers a range of whitening solutions for different applications, serving as an excellent alternative to titanium dioxide.  

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PearlEdge™ Whitening & Clouds for Food and Beverage Applications

With the innovative PearlEdge™ portfolio for bright white hues, you can achieve superb whitening in foods and beverages with solutions that enable whiteness of similar intensity to TiO2 while providing a cleaner label.

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PearlEdge™ for Food Applications
PearlEdge™ for Food Applications

Derived from nature, PearlEdge™ Silk, Satin, and Shine solutions allow you to replace ingredients, such as TiO2 and modified starch, with native corn starch on your ingredient list. PearlEdge™ Silk and Satin have been tested in a multitude of application processes to illustrate performance. It keeps in suspension, and in confections, works extremely well in sugar syrup to alleviate uneven texture, a blotchy surface, and perceived roughness.

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PearlEdge™ for Beverage Applications
PearlEdge™ for Beverage Applications

Our PearlEdge™ portfolio was designed as an array of solutions to address different applications, markets, certifications, and regulatory needs. In beverages, our emulsification technology delivers strong whitening and opacifying effects that are compatible with other beverage ingredients, with no ringing, precipitation, sediments, or staining.

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Cleaner-Label Whitening

Count on ADM’s deep expertise in naturally derived food and beverage colorants to help you develop vibrant and appealing foods and beverages with consumer-friendly, cleaner labels.

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Clean-Label Products

ADM is committed to sourcing natural raw materials and producing color solutions with a transparent supply chain.
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Unmatched Expertise

Our patented and proprietary technologies ensure optimal performance in diverse food and beverage applications.
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Compliance Guidance

ADM’s regional and global regulatory experts are available to support you throughout product development.

Explore More Food Color Solutions

ADM’s Colors from Nature™ portfolio features a rainbow of naturally derived colors for your food and beverage needs.

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Naturally Derived Red & Pink Food Coloring

ADM’s large portfolio of red and pink colors delivers superior stability and the clean-label attributes that consumers are looking for.

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Naturally Derived Blue & Green Food Coloring

Our expertise in huito fruit2 and other natural raw materials provides a range of stable and brilliant green and blue shades for foods and beverages. 

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Confectionery

Partner with our world-class experts to deliver innovative, colorful treats that are sure to satisfy every sweet tooth.

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Frequently Asked Questions

ADM is your expert in delivering high-quality and naturally derived whitening. Read on for answers to some commonly asked questions.

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ADM is a uniquely qualified source for whitening solutions, thanks to our expertise and innovative PearlEdge™ technologies. Contact us today to get started on creating the cleaner-label white hues that will make your products stand out from the rest.

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1 Please note that there is no general definition for the term “clean label.” Please check individually with national interpretations taken into account.

2 Limited availability outside of North America


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