
Emerald is the leading global producer of key preservatives and flavors for the food industry. By producing ingredients to the highest industry standards for purity and quality, Emerald helps protect your brand equity and the integrity of your products.
Emerald’s operations in U.S. and Europe are backward integrated, strategically located near major ports and rail lines, and certified under FSSC 22000, ISO 9001:2015, and ISO 14001:2015. In addition to compliance with REACh and relevant food safety regulations and standards (such as FSMA, GFSI, and c-GMP), our food-grade portfolio meets FCC specifications and is also certified kosher and halal.
Kalama® Flavor Ingredients
Our portfolio and flavor and fragrance ingredients deliver a desirable, mouthwatering appeal to a wide range of applications. Notes include nature identical citrus, almond, and cinnamates, which are central to many applications such as bakery goods, beverages, confectionary, and more.
Purox and Kalama® Benzoate Preservatives
Benzoic acid and its salts are highly effective preservatives to inhibit the growth of yeasts, bacteria, and molds in acidic food and beverage applications. Emerald’s Purox benzoates are produced to the highest purity available, minimum 99.9%, which ensures excellent taste and odor profiles. Purox® S Sodium Benzoate’s unique, dust-free particle size offers very good dissolution and flow, making it an excellent choice for applications where solubility is a concern.
Other Benzoate Ingredients
Kalama® Benzyl Alcohol NF/FCC and Kalama® Benzyl Benzoate are used as fixatives in confectionary applications.
Multifunctional aromatic alcohol for personal care, cosmetics, and fragrance applications
Nearly odorless, GRAS ingredient with high molecular weight; widely used perfume fixative.
Fruity, GRAS ingredient also known as hexanal or caproaldehyde; used as a flavor ingredient and a building block for butyl cinnamic aldehyde.
Fruity, GRAS ingredient also known as octanal, octyl aldehyde, or caprylaldehyde.
GRAS ingredient with hyacinth-like balsamic aroma; versatile raw material for fragrance compounds and pharmaceuticals; valuable component in perfume compositions.
Widely used, GRAS flavoring ingredient; versatile raw material for derivatives and in certain agricultural applications.
GRAS, FCC grade aroma chemical used in a wide range of applications.
Most highly refined benzaldehyde grade offered, with lowest available levels of benzene and toluene.
Effective, high purity preservative for personal care, fixative, coalescent, solvent, and intermediate, produced to meet NF/FCC requirements.
Widely valued fragrance ingredient that delivers sweet, peachy, fresh fruit notes.
Effective, high purity preservative for personal care, fixative, coalescent, solvent, and intermediate, produced to meet NF/FCC requirements.
Low-sodium preservative for foods and beverages with excellent antimicrobial efficacy (FCC/E212)
Sodium benzoate preservative NF/FCC/E211, dense granules (granular form)
Sodium benzoate preservative NF/FCC/E211, extruded dust-free
Sodium benzoate preservative, 32-34% in solution (liquid)
Sodium Benzoate preservative NF/FCC/E211, powder form
Ultra-pure grade of benzoic acid, used as a preservative for food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.
Sodium benzoate preservative NF/FCC/E211 (highest purity and quality worldwide)