Customizable, easy to produce, and great tasting - build rice drinks that your consumers will love.
Rice drinks have many strengths that consumers want:
But rice can be challenging. Producers often face textural, taste or processing issues.
Overcome these challenges, simplify your production, and unleash the full potential of your rice drinks with the Vertera® Rice Toolbox - all without adding to your ingredients list.
For plant-based drinks, taste and texture are the top buying criteria for whether consumers re-purchase. There is room for improvement in this area.
According to recent Novonesis research*, 92% of consumers considered taste "very important" or "important".
However, in the same study, 40% of consumers said they are not fond of the taste of plant-based dairy.
The answers to better taste and texture are inside. Find plant-based answers with Vertera®.
Whatever level of sweetness you’re aiming for, enzymes can help. One of our enzymes delivers a prolonged reaction which leads to maltose formation, creating rice-based drinks with a mildly sweet taste. Another converts maltose into glucose, which is ideal for producing sweeter drinks. With our tailored blends, you can get exactly the sweetness your consumers demand. And you could potentially unlock no/low added sugar claims.
Want to meet the demand for less-processed rice drinks?
Our enzyme technologies are natural processing aids. That means they’re not functional in the final products. And that means they're not included on the final label.
Plant-based consumers are strongly motivated by health concerns. According to recent Novonesis research: 73% of consumers ranked ”healthy” among the top 5 most important qualities when consuming plant-based beverages. 60% say that better nutrition would make them switch from dairy to plant-based drinks.
Consumers seek plant-based drinks that can offer:
The answers to better nutrition are inside. Find plant-based answers with Vertera®.
How can you get high-quality, long-lasting foam, a flavor to complement coffee? The answers are inside the rice. Unlock them with Vertera® Rise, an enzyme specifically designed to improve foam height and quality in plant-based beverages.
Become even more flexible, efficient and profitable with our Vertera® Rice Toolbox. Here’s how:
Viscosity reduction: easily and efficiently control your product’s viscosity in liquefaction
Yield Improvements: increase the yields in your rice drink extraction enzymatically, reaching up to 70% extraction yields, depending on the raw material
Proteases, amylases and glucoamylases are three enzymes used for oat drink production. They all work by breaking down oats through a process known as hydrolysis. Each enzyme plays a specific role in getting the exact protein and sensory profile your consumers want.
You can develop your ideal rice drink by using different enzymes at different parts of your process, whether you need higher protein, varying sweetness levels or barista-type foaming.
Introducing Vertera® Rice Toolbox
How can you develop delicious plant-based spreads, drinks and vegurts with great texture and nutritional profiles as well as shorter ingredient lists? The answers to all these questions and more are inside the plants.
Sources:
¹Novonesis via Conjointly: Oat beverage consumers insights (2023)
