Antimicrobials & Fermentates

Protect your product from microbial spoilage while maintaining product taste, texture, and overall integrity. Our food antimicrobials and fermentates can help reduce customer complaints and retain brand loyalty, lessening the financial and environmental impact of food waste.

Protect consumers by delaying the growth of some common pathogenic microbes. By reducing the risk of recalls and other consequences, our solutions can help you ensure peace of mind and maintain consumer loyalty.

Maintain the sensory integrity and appeal of your products throughout their shelf life to meet consumer expectations. In addition, improve product taste with our label-friendly fermentates – helping you connect with consumers seeking engaging sensory experiences.

By delaying quality deterioration from microbial spoilage IFF antimicrobials and fermentates open the door to broader geological reach with optimized distribution costs.

As public acceptance of certain synthetic antimicrobials—such as benzoates and sorbates—drives calls for legislative actions and regulatory restrictions, our portfolio has never been more relevant. With our cost-effective, fermentation-derived alternatives, we help you confidently navigate evolving expectations and reformulate for more consumer-friendly labels.

Partnering with IFF grants you access to unparalleled expertise and cutting-edge capabilities. Our experts efficiently uncover swift and optimal solutions for faster product development and optimized production costs.

As an effective, naturally occurring antimycotic, NATAMAX® secures quality and safety over your food product’s shelf life without altering flavor. Non-GMO and stable throughout processing and storage, our comprehensive natamycin product range is manufactured by fermentation, highly purified and dried before being blended with various food ingredients suited for specific food applications.

Applications extend across dairy, culinary (including meat), bakery, and beverage products.

For over 60 years, food manufacturers have been using NISAPLIN®, IFF’s commercial preparation of Nisin A, to delay the outgrowth of undesirable microorganisms. Naturally produced by dairy starters and purified, our NISAPLIN® product line effectively controls Gram positive bacteria and sporeformers while being easy to use and label friendly.

Applications extend across dairy, culinary (including meat), bakery, and beverage products.

Specially curated, the NOVAGARD® product range blends help meat and culinary manufacturers face their shelf life and safety challenges. Designed to capture Nisin A functionality using either the synergistic or differentiating mode of action of other components, NOVAGARD® products can control Listeria monocytogenes, with verified kill effect and control of outgrowth.

Applications extend across dairy and culinary (including meat) products.

Combining fermentation technology expertise with the antimicrobial synergies of various potent ingredients, these blends support label friendly formulations while improving safety and extending shelf life. Through mixing cultured/fermented dextrose with buffered vinegar, BIOVIA® CL series is best suited for robust microbial spoilage control of meat products. BIOVIA® YM 10, a blend of cultured/fermented dextrose, plant extract and seed oil helps US manufacturers control the growth of some resilient yeasts & molds spoiling their sauces & dressings.

Applications extend across dairy and culinary (including meat) products.

IFF’s MICROGARD® product line delivers advanced, fermentation-based food protection solutions that help improve and maintain sensory qualities while providing effective microbial control. With diverse formats derived from dextrose, milk, or wheat flour, MICROGARD® products are easy to incorporate and support improved eating experiences, extended freshness, and consumer-friendly, simplified ingredient labels.

Applications extend across dairy, culinary (including meat), bakery, and more.