Put your products in the spotlight with our Natural Colour Solutions

Colour is more than just a visual element — it’s an experience. Natural colours bring vibrancy, authenticity and appeal to food and beverages, creating connections between look and taste that consumers can see and trust. Our comprehensive portfolio offers a wide spectrum of natural shades in powder or liquid form tailored to meet diverse needs across the food, beverage and nutrition industries.

Setting Standards in Natural Colour Excellence

  • Comprehensive Range: Our extensive portfolio covers the full spectrum of colours, derived from natural ingredients.
  • Clean-label Expertise: We meet consumer demands for transparency with E-number-free options and naturally derived solutions.
  • Unique Stability: Designed for consistent performance, our colours provide exceptional stability across processing conditions and extended shelf-life.
     
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Natural Colours

Vibrant Colours for innovative food and beverages

Discover Our Full Spectrum of Natural Colours

Naturally brighten your products with Döhler’s Citrine Yellow solutions. Leveraging decades of expertise, we craft vibrant yellow shades using Curcumin and Beta Carotene emulsions, delivering the brilliance your applications demand. Yellow is connected to positivity, freshness and energy – qualities that resonate strongly with consumers in food and beverages. It evokes naturalness and vitality, making it ideal for products aiming to convey health and freshness.

Looking for E-number-free solutions? Our safflower extracts, sustainably sourced from Türkiye, provide a natural, clean-label alternative. Additionally, our yellow carrot concentrates, produced at our dedicated facility in Poland, give your creations a warm and golden glow. Whether you seek bright, sunny tones or subtle, mellow yellows, Döhler has the solutions and expertise to meet your needs.

Natural Yellow – Curcumin

Global solutions for the food and beverage industry

Clean Label: Natural Orange & Yellow

Colouring concentrates – without E-number

Natural Yellow

Predictive modelling of the particle size dependent shade of curcumin dispersions

Nature produces over 300 metric tonnes of carotenoids every second – and we transform these into vibrant amber-orange colouring concentrates and natural colours for a broad range of food and beverages.

Using raw materials such as orange carrot, paprika or other carotene variants, we create rich, natural amber shades that meet the highest quality standards. Whether you’re looking for a deep, glowing orange for beverages or a warm amber for baked goods, our innovative solutions bring the brilliance of nature to your products, ensuring they stand out with vibrant, natural appeal.

Clean Label: Natural Orange & Yellow

Colouring concentrates – without E-number

Every kilogram of black carrot dye you use saves the lives of 12,000 cochineal insects, as it delivers the same colouring power as carmine. By choosing Döhler’s plant-based colours, you’re not only enhancing your products but also protecting wildlife and promoting sustainability. 

The anthocyanin pigment found in black carrots delivers a versatile palette of colours, from intense ruby reds in acidic solutions to rich, velvety violets in neutral conditions. This is achieved by varying the source of anthocyanins or adjusting pH levels. At Döhler, we rely on a sustainable supply of black carrots from Türkiye, ensuring consistent quality and availability.

For more shades of red and violet, we provide betanin-based solutions derived from beetroot, grown at our dedicated facility in Poland. No matter your application, Döhler has the perfect red to match your products’ needs and reflect your commitment to sustainability.

Natural Red – Anthocyanin

Bright red natural colour for food & beverage applications

Beautiful Beetroot

How Betanin can change your food’s appearance

CO₂ Footprint Black Carrot

An analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions along the value chain

Each hectare of black carrot crops absorbs around 60 metric tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere, making them a sustainable and eco-friendly alternative to synthetic dyes like carmine, which contribute to CO₂ emissions.

Anthocyanins, the natural pigment found in black carrots, offer an impressive versatility of shades. By varying the source of anthocyanins or adjusting pH levels, you can achieve vibrant red tones in acidic solutions or rich, velvety violets in neutral environments. Our sustainably sourced black carrots from Türkiye ensure high availability and a variety of shades, making Döhler’s Amethyst Purple a reliable, ethical choice for your food and beverage applications.

Natural Red – Anthocyanin

Bright red natural colour for food & beverage applications

Natural Red for Food

Enhance the colour sensation of your foods with our natural red shades

Bring the essence of nature to your creations with Döhler’s Olivine Green. Sourced from plant-based materials like spirulina and gardenia, our green colours are ideal for applications seeking a fresh and vibrant appeal. Whether it’s beverages, bakery items or confectioneries, Olivine Green offers excellent stability and versatility, supporting your clean-label goals with a range of natural shades.

A stunning natural colour sourced from spirulina and gardenia: Our Sapphire Blue adds depth to your beverages, confectionery and desserts, delivering a wide spectrum of shades, from soft pastels to bold ocean hues. Our natural blue colours are highly stable and meet the highest quality standards, providing a clean-label alternative to synthetic options.

Bring warmth and richness to your creations! Döhler’s Tiger Eye Brown offers a naturally sourced range of brown tones crafted to elevate your food and beverages. Derived from natural malt and corn extracts, these colours provide the depth and authenticity your products deserve while supporting clean-label declarations without E-numbers.

Brown signifies earthiness, reliability and indulgence – qualities that resonate with consumers seeking wholesome and premium experiences. Perfectly suited for a wide variety of applications, from beverages and baked goods to confectionery, Tiger Eye Brown delivers outstanding colour stability.

Jasper Brown

Döhler’s Allergen-free Brown Extract

E-Number Free Extracts

Natural Rich Browns for the Food and Beverage Industry

Cocoa Alternatives

Döhler’s natural ingredient solutions to navigate increasing costs and supply chain challenges

Elevate your products with the sophisticated appeal of Onyx Black. Döhler has developed E-number-free combinations of natural raw materials such as red beet, malt or corn and spirulina, adding depth and a touch of mystery to your food and beverage creations. For an even darker visual impact, it’s possible to choose vegetable charcoal to enhance the final product's striking appearance.

Ideal for premium confectionery, desserts and bakery applications, our natural black colours bring stability, consistency and a touch of elegance to your products. Free from artificial additives, Onyx Black supports clean-label declarations.

Natural Black Colour Solution

Black Diamond: clean label black colour exclusively from Döhler

With its ability to brighten the visual appeal of products, white plays an essential role in food and beverage applications. However, traditional whitening agents like Titanium Dioxide are facing increasing global legal reviews due to health concerns.

With our Crystal White range we meet these challenges and consumer demands for naturalness and health while enhancing the product’s visual appeal and natural integrity. Our White Diamond is a breakthrough natural whitening solution that performs exceptionally well across a wide range of applications. With additional nutritional benefits and metabolisable properties, White Diamond is a cost-efficient, natural alternative. Complementing our breakthrough whitening innovations, our Moonstone cloud emulsions give transparent beverages a natural appearance, ideal for non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks as well as powders. For a touch of extra sparkle, we offer Silver Pearl – a new pearlescent pigment that adds a unique gloss and shimmering appearance to your food and beverages.

Enhance your products with a bright and innovative solution.

Titanium Dioxide Alternative

Bringing safety and nutritional benefits to your products

Silver Pearl

Bring back the sparkle!

Natural White for Beverages

Create your natural beverage with our advanced cloud emulsions

Your Partner in Innovation

Our commitment to innovation and natural excellence makes us your ideal partner for creating food and beverage experiences that delight the senses. With state-of-the-art facilities, dedicated global sourcing teams and an unwavering focus on quality, we deliver solutions that help you stand out in a competitive market.

Experience the Natural Difference

Whether you’re looking to create sunny yellows, vibrant reds, elegant whites or striking blacks, Döhler provides the solutions, expertise and innovation to bring your vision to life. Contact us today to discover how our natural colours portfolio can enrich your products and connect with consumers on a deeper level.

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