HydroPhase

Beverage Emulsion Solutions for Appearance, Stability, and Flavor Delivery

Taste the Difference With

HydroPhase Solutions

Beverage expectations begin with appearance. Emulsions help create the cloud, opacity, flavor delivery, and stability that influence how a beverage looks, performs, and tastes throughout its shelf life.

HydroPhase™ is FlavorSum’s family of beverage emulsion solutions that helps brands develop beverages that stand out on the shelf and in the glass. From Cloud® emulsions that deliver the opacity shoppers expect to beverage systems that simplify manufacturing, HydroPhase™ facilitates innovation across beverage categories.

Whether you’re formulating juice drinks, flavored waters, energy drinks, RTD teas, carbonated soft drinks, or alcoholic beverages, HydroPhase™ helps you achieve your formulation goals.

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Applications technician creating benchtop refreshing beverages with HydroPhase™ emulsions

Why Appearance Influences Beverage Expectations

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Cloud and opacity help signal flavor intensity and authenticity.

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Clear beverages communicate refreshment and lightness.

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Visual consistency maintains perceived quality throughout shelf life.

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Appearance and flavor work together to shape beverage expectations.

Why Beverage Developers Choose HydroPhase?

HydroPhase™ solutions help beverage brands:

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Create Visual Appeal

Achieve the cloudy, opaque look shoppers expect in juices, citrus drinks, lemonades, and other beverage applications.

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Support Stability Throughout Shelf Life

Maintain visual consistency and help reduce separation, ringing, creaming, and sedimentation.

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Improve Flavor Delivery

Enable consistent flavor dispersion and sensory performance throughout the beverage.

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Simplify Manufacturing

Reduce formulation complexity with beverage systems that combine multiple functional components into a single solution.

Guide

The Beverage Perception Gap

In our latest beverage guide, we explore how appearance shapes flavor perception. You’ll discover how to use visual cues with flavor to create your desired beverage experience. Download to learn:

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How color, clarity, cloud, and opacity influence flavor expectations

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What FlavorSum research reveals about appearance and beverage preference

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How to select a beverage design strategy to reflect your desired experience

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How these principles apply across sparkling water, hard seltzer, functional beverages, and juice

The Beverage Perception Gap

Explore the HydroPhase Portfolio

HydroPhase Cloud®

Deliver stable haze and opacity in beverage systems

HydroPhase™ Cloud® emulsions provide stable turbidity for beverages that require a cloudy appearance. Available in neutral and flavored formats, HydroPhase™ Cloud® emulsions can provide turbidity alone or combine clouding functionality with flavor delivery in a single solution.

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Neutral Cloud® emulsions

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Flavored Cloud® emulsions

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TTB approved Cloud® emulsions

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Custom Cloud® solutions

HydroPhase Flavor Bases

Streamline beverage production.

HydroPhase™ flavor bases combine multiple beverage components into convenient, easy-to-use solutions. These systems help reduce formulation complexity while supporting manufacturing efficiency, product consistency, and faster commercialization.

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Product Line 80 and 100

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Concentrated flavor bases that provide strong color, cloudiness, and flavor

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Product Line 200, 400, and 500

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Less concentrated, more cost-effective flavor bases

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Carbonated Soft Drink Flavor Base

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Flavor bases for carbonated soft drinks

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Orange Juice Beverage Flavor Base

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Orange flavor bases

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Alcoholic Beverage Flavor Base

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TTB-approved flavor bases for spirits

Applications

HydroPhase™ beverage emulsion solutions perform in applications ranging from juice drinks and flavored waters to energy drinks, RTD teas, alcoholic beverages, and beverage concentrates.

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Juice drinks

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Lemonades

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Carbonated soft drinks

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Flavored waters

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Energy drinks

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Functional beverages

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RTD teas

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Alcoholic RTDs

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Cocktail mixers

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Beverage concentrates

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Lemonades

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Carbonated soft drinks

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Flavored waters

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Energy drinks

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Functional beverages

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RTD teas

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Alcoholic RTDs

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Cocktail mixers

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Beverage concentrates

Label Claims and Certificiations

HydroPhase™ solutions are available with a range of label claim options to meet formulation and market requirements, including:

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Webinar

Designing Beverage Experiences

Aligning Clarity, Cloud, and Flavor Impact

What people see influences what they expect to taste. In this webcast, you’ll discover how clarity, cloud, and color shape flavor expectations. You’ll also explore examples of how HydroPhase™ emulsions and SelectXtract™ technology create visual and taste appeal in an orange soda.

FAQs

About HydroPhase

Why Partner with FlavorSum?

FlavorSum combines flavor extraction technology with decades of flavor development expertise.

Our team helps brands identify the right flavor profile, refine flavor performance, and align formulations with labeling goals.

What You Can Expect

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Beverage flavor expertise

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Natural and WONF solutions

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Formulation support

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Responsive customer service

Let’s Create Your Next Beverage Innovation