power drinks, vitamin-enhanced wate...

power drinks, vitamin-enhanced waters and isotonic yields are quickly taking up retail shelf space in the beverage aisle. These functional beverages not and nothing else provide refreshment, but also vitamins, fiber and minerals, and are gaining market share. The tendency has left beverage formulators and flavorists with a number of challenging tasks: blending all of these ingredients into a beverage, keeping the ingredients from separating, and ensuring stable and sustained flavor in a beverage from first to last its shelf-life.

Beverage Industry spoke with Phillip garble a technical associate for Eastman Chemical Co Kingsport, Tenn to discuss the importance of weighting agents, and