Spray-Dried Beadlet

Processed

Spray-Dried Beadlet

S tier

Spray-dried D3 beadlets trap the oil-soluble vitamin in a starch or gum matrix so a dry cereal, a tablet, or a flour premix can be dosed evenly. The beadlet is the reason a cornflake can claim vitamin D. Cross-section a good beadlet and you see a sealed globe, not a greasy stain. They shear and melt if you abuse them in a hot, wet mixer. Ask for overage data—D3 dies in process. Colour can be creamy or coated brown for camouflage in a cereal. This is the dry-food form, not a dropper.

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Characteristics

Preparations

CerealFlour PremixTablet

Traits

Cereal FormDry MatrixEven PremixNot A DropperOverage NeededSealed GlobeShear ShyUniform IU

History

Spray-dried vitamin beadlets made cereal fortification practical.

Tablet makers adopted D3 beadlets for content uniformity.

Flour and beverage-powder premixes specified beadlet D3 with declared overage.

Plant-based dry mixes used vegan-coated D3 beadlets for the same even dusting.

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