Plant-Powered Food Protection & Preservation

Trustworthy food safety from natural ingredients

Food Protection & Preservation

Proven Performance

Clean Label Food Safety

As consumers demand clean label products with ingredients they can pronounce and recognize—like celery extract—our food protection solutions are designed to preserve quality, color, flavor, and food safety naturally.

From plant-based meat cures to antioxidants, we deliver Purely Better™ high-performance solutions that protect products without compromising flavor or clean label expectations. Each of our food protection and preservation ingredients is backed by extensive testing and made in the USA, giving natural manufacturers the confidence and consistency they need to meet consumer demand for natural great taste and appearance, and regulatory standards for safety.

Simple, Proven Food Safety Ingredients

US-produced, Plant-powered Functionality

Our clean label, plant-powered alternatives enable processed and cured meat manufacturers to eliminate artificial additives, including sodium nitrite/nitrate, sodium erythorbate, chemical phosphates, chemical antioxidants, and synthetic lactates and diacetates. Using the best of nature’s purely better ingredients, these powerfully functional natural meat cure and antioxidant ingredients provide unrivaled performance and protection.

Replace synthetic additives with clear, easy-to-say natural ingredients with a portfolio of clean label natural cures and antioxidants are made in the USA to the highest standards of quality and food safety. Natural manufacturers know they can rely on Vibrant for trust and transparency. Because, as with all of our industry-leading food technology, our natural preservatives and ingredients are all backed by extensive testing.

As more consumers become clean label aware, the appeal of natural meat cure ingredients strongly outweighs artificial additives. And with more and more clean label natural meat cure manufacturers seeking to switch to clean label phosphate replacements, there’s never been a better time to take advantage of Vibrant’s Purely Better™ product lineup. It’s designed to deliver the great-looking and great-tasting products that meet consumers’ expectations.

  • Celery or Swiss chard-derived natural meat cure extends shelf life and reduces overall cure time
  • Acerola cherry natural meat cure accelerator provides cured color development, stability, and protection
  • Antioxidants like rosemary, green tea, and acerola cherry improve flavor stability and protection, prevent rancidity, and promote color stability

As pioneers in natural cure, Vibrant Ingredients continues to lead clean label innovation. Today, we are one of only two manufacturers legally permitted to sell natural cure in the United States and Canada. Our commitment to performance, safety, and reliability remains unwavering.

Celery & Swiss Chard Natural Cure Systems
Celery & Swiss Chard Natural Cure Systems

Proven, plant-based protection. Replace synthetic nitrites with plant-based curing systems derived from celery or Swiss chard. These ingredients provide a natural source of nitrate that converts to nitrite during processing, enabling full cured meat functionality.

They deliver:

  • Reliable pathogen control and food safety performance
  • Consistent cured color and flavor development
  • Extended shelf life

Designed for processors transitioning away from sodium nitrite/nitrate, these systems maintain the traditional cured profile consumers expect while supporting clean label claims. Natural Cure products cure your next winning clean label meat product. Without compromising flavor or appearance, and without synthetic additives.

Acerola Cherry Cure Accelerator
Acerola Cherry Cure Accelerator

Acerola cherry provides a natural source of ascorbic acid, accelerating the curing reaction and stabilizing finished product quality.

It enables:

  • Faster, more efficient cure conversion
  • Improved cured color development and uniformity
  • Enhanced oxidative stability during processing

By optimizing cure kinetics, acerola cherry helps ensure consistent results across batches while reducing variability in natural curing systems. It works seamlessly alongside celery- or chard-based cures to deliver predictable performance at scale. 

Get clean label protection for your meat products while enhancing the eating experience by retaining the meat’s juiciness, tenderness, flavor, and color.

Rosemary, Green Tea & Acerola Cherry Antioxidants
Rosemary, Green Tea & Acerola Cherry Antioxidants

Maintain the quality of your meat with the power of plants. A portfolio of plant-based antioxidants that protect flavor, color, and overall product integrity throughout shelf life.

These ingredients:

  • Inhibit lipid oxidation and help prevent rancidity

  • Preserve fresh color and visual appeal

  • Support flavor stability during storage and distribution

Rosemary and green tea extracts deliver powerful phenolic compounds, while acerola cherry provides additional antioxidant support. These solutions can be used individually or together to replace synthetic antioxidants like BHA and BHT with clean label alternatives that perform in real-world applications. Our clean label antioxidant alternatives lock in meat’s taste and color while naturally keeping the off-putting effects of oxidation at bay. 

Simple, Clean Label Ingredients that Build Trust

Get plant-powered functionality that eliminates the needs for artificial additives. See how easy it is to replace synthetic with natural.

Common Synthetic Ingredients
Vibrant Clean Label Ingredient Alternative
Sodium Nitrate

Celery Powder
Sodium Nitrite
Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA)

Green Tea, Rosemary
Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT)
Sodium Erythorbate

Cherry Powder
Sodium Ascorbate
Disodium Guanylate

Fermented Mushroom

*Partial replacement, application dependent
Disodium Inosinate
Monosodium Glutamate

Purely Better™ Plant-Powered Protection

Proven Performance in Meat Applications
Proven Performance in Meat Applications

Backed by extensive testing, our clean label solutions deliver reliable food safety functionality across a range of meat applications for natural manufacturers.

Functionality Powered by Nature
Functionality Powered by Nature

Our technology efficiently preserves the functional properties of the natural ingredients we use, enabling clean label alternatives to synthetic additives—with minimal sensory impact.

Innovative Processing Technology
Innovative Processing Technology

Vibrant’s techniques include advanced extraction, vacuum belt drying, fermentation, and grinding, to deliver pure, effective, clean label, natural ingredients.

Made in the USA
Made in the USA

We set the standard, pioneering patented, plant-powered protection, and are on the very short list of companies authorized to sell natural meat cure. Better still, we manufacture domestically using the most rigorous quality and food safety standards.

Cross-functional Innovation & Partnership
Cross-functional Innovation & Partnership

Our collaborative team spans flavor creation, product development, marketing, and commercialization—and we work in close collaboration with our manufacturing partners. It’s how we ensure every project delivers on taste, functionality, and market impact.

Certifications
Certifications

Food safety, quality, and trust. We’re a GFSI-certified ingredient supplier for beverage manufacturers under the SQF program and Kosher-compliant. Our Eustis, FL, facility delivers safe, consistent, and compliant ingredients at scale, trusted by today’s leading food and beverage brands.

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Pavan Soma, PhD

Vice President Science & Technology

Leveraging a PhD in Food Science, Pavan brings his passion for application research and ingredient interaction to bear on extraction, separation, and fermentation technologies at Vibrant. His interests lie in developing functional food ingredients from natural sources that deliver on market and customer-driven needs—and replacing synthetic additives.

Since 2012, Pavan and the Vibrant Food Protection & Preservation team he leads have worked hard to pioneer clean label natural cures, natural cure accelerators, and natural antioxidants to help formulators meet the exponential shift in consumer demand for recognizable ingredients that are easy to pronounce.

Pavan welcomes the challenge when food and beverage manufacturers come to Vibrant to shorten or “clean” their labels. Whether the solution is something off-the-shelf or new, he and his team ensure its efficacy and work closely with our partners to bring products to market safely and successfully.

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We are constantly innovating, looking for molecules from plants so we can create natural solutions that can perform.

Proven performance. Compelling packaging.

See What Vibrant’s Food Safety Products Can Do

“All natural” and “no artificial ingredients” are the most compelling catch-all terms for packaged and processed meat across all user groups. The majority of users studied said that the inclusion of synthetic phosphates could prevent them from purchasing a packaged or processed meat product.* Even better, the profit margins on clean label meat products can be significantly higher than those for conventional meat products—consumers are willing to pay more.

Learn more about what you can do with clean label food protection and preservation products. Put natural cure, natural cure accelerators, and antioxidants to work for your brand in these kinds of applications.

*Source: Vibrant proprietary research

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