What is Natural Beta Carotene Powder For Sale?
Natural Beta Carotene Powder For Sale defines a commercially standardized, dry-form carotenoid supplement derived from natural botanical or algal sources and intended just to be used in industrial manufacturing and to be personalized, as opposed to being used by retailers. Encapsulation or spray-drying technologies are used in markets to convert the naturally oil-soluble beta-carotene into a free-flowing, dust-controlled powder with a specific particle size, bulk density, and color strength, enabling it to be easily handled, weighed, and blended in bulk production facilities. The powder form is superior to liquid or oil formulations in terms of dosing (better precision), compatibility with premix systems (easy), and solid and semi-solid formulations (tablets, hard capsules, sachets, dry beverage bases, compound ingredient blends, and batch-to-batch reproducibility is important). Technically, in terms of procurement, the manufacturers would test it based on assay consistency, dispersal behavior in the target product, stability under the normal processing stress, and completeness of supporting documentation, including specifications, lot-specific COA, and the traceability records, so that it meets internal quality systems and regional regulatory expectations. As a material functionally important as a carotenoid raw material, and not a final consumer product, it is packaged in industrial formats of supply, which allow scalable production, formulation performance, and controlled color performance.

COA
| Item | Specification | Result | Test Method |
| Appearance | Orange to reddish-orange fine powder | Conforms | Visual |
| Odor & Taste | Characteristic | Conforms | Organoleptic |
| Identification | Positive | Conforms | HPLC / UV |
| Assay (β-Carotene) | ≥ 10.0% | 10.20% | HPLC |
| Loss on Drying | ≤ 8.0% | 5.10% | USP <731> |
| Particle Size | ≥ 95% pass 80 mesh | Conforms | Sieve |
| Bulk Density | 0.30 – 0.60 g/mL | 0.42 g/mL | USP |
| Solubility | Insoluble in water, soluble in oils | Conforms | Visual |
| Microbiological Analysis | |||
| Total Plate Count | ≤ 10,000 CFU/g | < 1,000 CFU/g | USP <61> |
| Yeast & Mold | ≤ 1,000 CFU/g | < 100 CFU/g | USP <61> |
| E. coli | Negative / 10 g | Negative | USP <62> |
| Salmonella | Negative / 25 g | Negative | USP <62> |
| Heavy Metals | |||
| Lead (Pb) | ≤ 2.0 ppm | < 0.1 ppm | ICP-MS |
| Arsenic (As) | ≤ 1.0 ppm | < 0.1 ppm | ICP-MS |
| Cadmium (Cd) | ≤ 1.0 ppm | < 0.05 ppm | ICP-MS |
| Mercury (Hg) | ≤ 0.1 ppm | < 0.01 ppm | ICP-MS |
| Total Heavy Metals | ≤ 10 ppm | Conforms | ICP-MS |
| Additional Information | |||
| GMO Status | Non-GMO | ||
| Irradiation | Not irradiated | ||
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Main Ingredients
The carotenoid fraction that determines the specification value (assay) of the product and the strength of its orange-to-reddish-orange colour in manufacturing use is the dominant active constituent, beta-carotene (all-trans β-carotene as the main isomer of carotenoid) in Natural Beta Carotene Powder, usually accompanied by minor cis-isomers depending on source and processing. In commercial "powder" grades, it is typically provided as a free-flowing, easier to dose, and more dispersible finished product, by spray-drying or microencapsulating, typically into a carrier system published as food- or pharma-grade, such as starches, gums, sugars or proteins (and in some grades, as processing aids, added antioxidants) to allow the final product to be free-flowing. Quality and formulation-wise, the most significant parameter is the standardized content (backed up by a lot-specific COA) as it is the parameter that pushes dosage accuracy, lots-to-lots consistency, and predictable colour behaviour within varying processing conditions.
Process
1. Natural Source Preparation
Raw materials containing beta-carotene (i.e., selected algal biomass or botanical concentrates) are cleaned, dried, and milled to obtain a uniform input quality that is required in large batch processing.
2. Selective Extraction
The extraction of the carotenoid fraction is carried out out of the raw matrix in food-grade extraction systems, which usually entail extraction under regulated temperature and restricted oxygen conditions in either controlled solvents or oil-based solvents to preserve the integrity of the pigments.
3. Concentration and Purification
The resulting beta -carotene solution is then concentrated and purified to eliminate non-targets to obtain a standardized carotenoid concentrate with known assay and color strength to be used in further processing.
4. Stabilization and Carrier Blending
The beta-carotene is oxygen-light-sensitive and, therefore, the concentrate is mixed with approved carrier material and stabilization aids, creating a shielded dispersion or emulsion to be converted into a dry form.
5. Microencapsulation / Spray Drying
To form a free-flowing powder with measured particle size, moisture content, and bulk density, optimized to be handled and formulated by the industries, the stabilized dispersion is spray-dried or otherwise encapsulated.
6. Sieving and Homogenization
The Beta Carotene Powder is then dried and sieved to get an even distribution of the particles to reduce segregation and help in uniform dosing in large-scale production.
7. Quality Control and Standardization
Every consignment is checked by pre-set specifications (assay, appearance, moisture, and purity parameters) and made standardized when required to ensure consistency from batch to batch.

Suitable For
The manufacturer-wise, the end products developed using it will tend to be positioned in the wide, non-specific consumers, and thus will be suitable in the mainstream markets where stable appearance, ingredient visibility, and natural sourcing are considered important. These products are typically targeting adult consumers with daily nutritional or functional formats, as well as generic lifestyle categories where they want formulations that are positioned based on clean-label, plant-based, or nature-identical ingredients. Since Beta-carotene Extract is sold as a standardized industrial raw material and is included at controlled concentrations in finished products, it is generally used in products that are to be taken by the general population, under normal use conditions, and is not differentiated by age, gender, or health condition. Applicability is, however, defined by manufacturers on the basis of broad marketability, regulatory compliance, and formulation compatibility as opposed to specific physiological requirements to ensure that a finished product can be marketed broadly both in retail, own-label, and contract manufacturing.
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