About 77% of adults take a daily dietary supplement in the United States alone. In many cases, they take numerous supplements each day. Consumers are more demanding, seeking specific products that perfectly fit into their personal lifestyle and diet requirements. This has led to more diversification and broadening of the supplement portfolio to include vitamins, minerals, probiotics, PUFAS, and herbal extracts. These products often come with bioavailability, stability and taste challenges that the industry must address while maximizing efficiency and productivity. 

Dietary supplement manufacturers hope to meet this consumer demand by formulating dosage forms with multiple nutritional ingredients, creating smaller and more convenient supplement formats that offer the same health benefits as their larger counterparts. However, manufacturers often encounter processing challenges throughout development and production cycles. For traditional tablets, sourcing high-functioning ingredients that seamlessly improve efficacy of formulations and efficiency of production process without jeopardizing nutritional ingredient loads is a recurring issue. And for forms like gummies and soft capsules, stability of the dosage form remains challenging as individual doses often stick together and fail to hold their shape when made with low-melting-point gelatins.

Our technical team is ready to partner with you to solve these challenges.  By optimizing your formulation with highly functional excipients and removing unnecessary fillers, new capacity for nutritional ingredients can be created to reduce dose frequency or a smaller tablet can be produced to make doses easier to swallow. Our team of global experts understands how to customize your dietary supplements to meet consumer needs using high-quality ingredients from our broad portfolio. Whether you’re looking to improve capsule-processing speed, decrease dosage size, increase efficiency or enable soft capsules and gummies to withstand higher temperatures, we collaborate with you to ensure every dose leads to a positive consumer experience.