Highly regarded for its antioxidant properties and credited with helping to reduce risk of diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, vitamin E also slows foods from becoming rancid. Vitamin E can consist of up to eight tocopherols and toco-trienols (four each). Consumers continue to seek foods and beverages that give them an edge on health, and one company’s unique tocotrienol complex (vitamin E) helps manufacturers deliver consumer wishes.
Carotech uses a U.S.-patented extraction technology, without organic solvents, to manufacture several ingredients. Tocomin®, a self-affirmed GRAS ingredient (tocotrienol), is known as “the vitamin E of the 21st century.” Another ingredient, Caromin®, is a mixed carotene complex with the highest level of alpha-carotene in the market, says the company, and Stelessterol® is a phytosterol from palm fruits/crude palm oil (Elaeis guineensis). “We have the tocotrienol complex in various forms (oil extract, compressible beadlets, as well as water-dispersible powder) to cater to different applications: supplements (soft gel, tablet and two-piece, hard shell), functional foods and drinks, and last, but not least, cosmetic/skin nutrition,” explains W.H. Leong, vice president of the Edison, N.J.-based company. “All three products are 100% non-GMO, vegetarian and kosher-certified.”