Who We Serve
- Beverage formulators building functional shots, RTDs, sparkling waters, and energy drinks.
- Food technologists developing fortified bars, snacks, and breakfast products.
- Brand owners launching gummy and confection-format supplements.
- Co-packers and contract manufacturers managing scale-up and stability.
What Beverage and Food Formulators Care About
- Solubility profile — water-soluble vs. oil-soluble vs. dispersible.
- Heat stability — pasteurization, hot-fill, baking, and high-shear processing.
- Acid and pH compatibility — shelf-stable beverage formulations sit at low pH.
- Color, flavor, and mouthfeel — the active has to disappear into the experience.
- Label-claim mathematics — getting a clinically meaningful dose into a 2-oz shot or a 20-g serving.
- Clean label — fewer ingredients, recognizable names.
GCI’s Branded Ingredients for Food & Beverage
- PrebioSure™ — gut-environment positioning in functional shots, sachets, and bars.
- MycoSure™ — organic mushroom prebiotic for the rapidly growing functional-mushroom beverage segment, at ~1 g daily dose versus 8–10 g for inulin.
- RhodiolaSure™ — adaptogen for daily-use beverages, energy shots, and stress-relief formats.
- DHA3Sure™ — algal DHA with no fishy taste, suited to beverages, gummies, and fortified foods. The only practical DHA option for clean-label beverage applications.
- PQQSure™ — water-soluble disodium salt, formulator-friendly across beverage, gummy, and shot formats.
- GarliSure™ — standardized garlic for functional foods (savory snacks, broths, condiments) where allicin potential matters.
- Olivir™ — olive leaf extract for Mediterranean-style functional foods and immune-positioned beverages.
Common Companion Ingredients in Our Range
Plant proteins, electrolytes, B-vitamins, vitamin D, monk fruit and stevia (commodity range), MCT, prebiotic fibers, probiotic strains stable in food matrices, and more.
Common Formulation Challenges We Help With
- Adding DHA to a clean-label beverage without fishy aftertaste — DHA3Sure™ is the answer.
- Building a functional-mushroom shot at a meaningful dose without bulk — MycoSure™ at 1 g/day vs. 8 g for inulin solves a real format problem.
- Adding a humic/fulvic claim to a clear beverage — HumicSure™’s fulvic fraction is water-soluble.
- Standardizing an adaptogen claim across an entire beverage line — RhodiolaSure™ at one defined spec across SKUs.
- Building a non-fishy omega-3 gummy line for kids’ or prenatal markets.
Common Dosage Formats
Functional shots (2-oz and 4-oz), RTDs (12–16 oz), sparkling functional waters, gummies, stick packs and sachets, energy bars, snack bars, fortified breakfast products, fortified plant milks, kombucha and fermented beverages.
Regulatory & Quality Posture
Food and beverage formulations carry their own regulatory weight beyond DSHEA. GCI’s documentation set supports food-grade qualification:
- Specification Sheet and current COA per lot.
- Allergen, GMO, and country-of-origin declarations.
- Kosher, Halal, Organic, Non-GMO Project, and Gluten-Free certifications where applicable.
- Heat stability and solubility data on request.
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These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease.