Vegetarian and Vegan Softgels Manufacturing

Vegetarian and Vegan Substitutes for Gelatin
The steady rise of vegetarian and vegan softgel manufacturers in the USA has been in response to changing consumer trends in the market. With more health awareness and environmental concerns emerging throughout the past decade, people around the world are searching for healthier options to accommodate their lifestyle, spending power, and nutrition. Vegetarian omega-3 supplements meet this demand through advanced, stable manufacturing and ingredients that avoid the animal by-products of traditional softgels. With the right marketing and a key understanding of what vegetarian supplements can offer, distributors can take advantage of this growing market for consumers actively looking for alternative options.
The traditional process for producing gelatin involves boiling animal tissues and bones until they congeal into a gel-like substance. As such, many seemingly vegetarian items are rendered non-vegetarian by the inclusion of gelatin in their ingredients. Common examples include marshmallows, yogurt, candies, desserts, and gel-capsules. Although vegetarian replacements cannot perfectly replicate the thickening and gelling properties of gelatin, products such as agar agar, red seaweed, and vegetable gums provide you with a variety of close alternatives.
Selling Points for Vegetarian and Vegan Softgels
According to a recent study, 2.2% of the total vegetarian population of the U.S. identifies. Using plant-based technology, vegetarian softgels present a highly viable option for your brand and your market’s needs in different sizes and color options. Premium vegetarian omega-3 supplements demonstrate significant advantages over other nutritional supplement delivery forms including:
A Variety of Vegetarian and Vegan Alternatives
Red Seaweed
Tapicoa

Tapioca soft-gels offer the best specialized soft-gel technologies and solutions for real human health due to the 100% vegetarian and non-animal sources. The appeal and potential for vegetarian products are rapidly expanding beyond the group of people. People avoid animal products for ethical/personal reasons. This includes the much larger base of consumers seeking healthier, cleaner supplement labels. Tapioca vegetable soft-gels can replace gelatin in supplements, offering patented, 100% vegetarian, non-GMO Project Verified, non-animal materials.
Agar Agar

One of the most common vegetarian alternatives to gelatin is agar agar. Production of this flavorless thickening agent involves cooking and pressing seaweed, typically until it reaches a powdered or flaked form. Although you can use either of these forms in place of gelatin, you should opt for powdered agar agar for the best results. This is because powdered agar agar is a 1-to-1 replacement for gelatin. When using flaked agar agar, you should either grind it before cooking or use approximately three servings of flaked agar agar for every one serving of gelatin.
Vegetable Gums

Vegetable gums are common ingredients in ice cream, chewing gum, and gluten-free baked goods. Common examples include guar gum and xantham gum. Guar gum is commonly ground or flaked, dissolves in liquids easily and is a very effective thickening agent. However, its gelatin-like properties vary with its quality, temperature, and pH. Xantham gum is more effective at increasing a liquid’s viscosity and retains this property at a broader temperature and pH range. Despite xantham’s higher stability, vegetable gums do not retain their gelling and thickening properties as well as gelatin and seaweed-derived alternatives.
Other Alternatives
Icelandirect: The Leading Ingredient Source and Private Label Manufacturer
We source our ingredients around the world emphasizing high product quality and consistency. Our softgels is produced by HACCP, GMP, and ISO 9001 certifications. We even manufacture vegan private-label supplements for our potential vegan consumers.
Icelandirect provides a high level of customer care and extremely competitive pricing for private label retailers and contracts for vegan supplement manufacturers all over the United States. We provide quality private-label packaging for softgels in plastic bottles, blister packs, or pouches.
The vegan supplement manufacturers don’t prove ideal by merely producing vegan supplements. The purpose is to manufacture without the cost of nature. We’re strongly committed to providing customers with green, eco-friendly, sustainable packaging. Our fully-green option gives clients a strong marketing advantage with environmentally-conscious consumers.

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