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PepsiCo is evaluating different natural color ingredients and technologies to replace Yellow #5, Yellow #6, Red #40, and Blue #1 for multiple food and beverage brands in order to address consumer demand. Specific challenges are in the Red #40 (food) and Blue #1 (food & beverage) replacers.
Solution Requirements
Please indicate whether your solution is applicable for foods and/or beverages.
FOODS: Seeking Yellow #5, Yellow #6, Red #40, and Blue #1 replacements
Must-Haves
Nice-to-Haves
BEVERAGES:SeekingFD&C Blue #1, Yellow #5, Yellow #6, and Red #40 replacements
Must-Haves
Nice-to-Haves
Past work & approaches not of interest
PepsiCo has performed project specific assessments of natural color ingredient. Typically, these projects have short timelines and low ingredient costs. In 2020, PepsiCo decided to approach the project from an ingredient lens to help drive mid to long term research. Current work has focused on currently commercialized color ingredients produced at large scale. In the past, natural color ingredients have been explored via addition to seasoning, oil slurries, extrusion or into baked/fried products.
Ingredients must be “safe for consumption” and have path to regulatory approval in the US, Canada, and/or Europe. Otherwise, all ingredients are within scope.
PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $70 billion in net revenue in 2020, driven by a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Quaker, Tropicana and SodaStream. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including 23 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.
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