Healthy Ingredients


A natural move into the nutraceutical industry? Confectionery in the form of fruit gums and jellies is already used as a carrier material for pharmaceutical products. In the over-the-counter (OTC) sector, more and more new products are appearing. The range of products has become extremely wide: vitamins in various compositions, minerals, trace elements, omega-3 fatty acids, stimulants or sedatives, cannabis, melatonin, collagen and many more. “This turns the small confectionery into a ‘modern tablet’. A trend that has already taken on considerable proportions in the USA. It is a question of a few years until this will also reach similar dimensions in Europe,” Holger notes. With the division “sweetOTC” WDS responds to these new trends, supplying technologies and machines for the production of actively effective OTC sweets and supplements. Darling Ingredients’ Health Brand, Rousselot, recently


announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has received U.S. Patent No. 11,490,634, securing Rousselot’s intellectual property for SiMoGel™, a gelatin technology that eliminates the need for starch-based gummy production. SiMoGel allows for the production of nutraceutical gummies using silicon or metal moulds, which are easily cleanable and eliminate dust during production, unlike traditional starch trays. In November 2021, the company also received a patent


from the European Patent Office (EPO) for SiMoGel for all major European countries. “Because of taste, convenience and effectiveness, functional gummies are one of the fastest growing nutraceutical segments across Europe, North America


“Nature offers numerous


alternative raw material sources, which, with the application of a target-oriented technology, delivers amazing results”


and Asia,” said Pierre-Albert Thomas, Director of Rousselot Functional Ingredients. “Darling Ingredients’ Rousselot team has been on the cutting edge of developing world-class, gelatin-based solutions. Receiving patents from both the U.S. Patent and Trademark office and the European Patent Office is a testament to our commitment to new and improved customer gelatin-based formulations.” According to Future Market Insights, the nutraceutical


gummy market grew at a compound annual growth rate of 12.5% from 2016 to 2020 and is forecasted to grow 15% compounded annually from 2021-2031. TopGum Industries Ltd. debuted their latest offering


of sugar-free, organic gummies to the nutritional health supplement category late last year. The curated collection of five gummies includes gummies that deliver a range of ingredients such as the B-vitamin Biotin, Vitamin D, and


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