Edible Glitter™
Made from
Gum Arabic & water. Add shimmering color to your desserts!
Brilliant edible glitter is here
in a great variety of colors, ready to decorate cakes, cupcakes, cookies
and ice cream for holidays (on snow scenery cakes) and special occasions.
Great for stenciling, adding to messages, borders, flowers, snow scenes
and more. May be crushed up for a finer sprinkle.
| You can add glitter to:
Snack Chips & Popcorn Cookies & Crackers Breakfast Cereals Candy & Coatings Frostings Bread & Baked Goods Carbonated Beverages Add panache to your iced cookies or cakes with edible glitter; the merest dusting is all it takes to make baked treats sparkle. Edible, flavorless decorating glitter is all-natural. Just a touch atop icing is all you need. Perfect for your very special cookies & cakes White glitter adds elegant shimmer and subtle sparkle. Anything & Everything! |
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Properties:
Heat Stable: Glitter can be baked
on without browning or burning in temperatures up to 450o F
Freeze/Thaw Stable: Use it on Frozen
desserts and frozen baked goods
Solubility Options: Available in
soluble and in-soluble forms
Flake Size: Available in a range
of flake sizes. Flake sizes can be as small as 50 mesh or as large as a
quarter inch.
Colors: FD&C, EU, Natural and
custom Pantone colors available.
100% PURE MAGIC
These little flakes are like magic.
They can do anything from adding color in ways that have never been possible
before in baked goods, to creating a swirl of “snow” in a carbonated beverage.
Now, even flavors and sweeteners can be added to Edible Glitter, which
opens up a whole new world of opportunities and applications for this product.
Thickness
The standard glitter product is
approx. 2 mil thick. Watson also manufactures 2X Glitter which is twice
as thick as the standard product. The thicker flake is more opaque and
dissolves at a slower rate than the thinner flake.
Solubility
In most applications “soluble” Edible
Glitter made from gum arabic is the preferred choice, and it can be used
on baked, fried, and frosted products; however, some applications require
a glitter product with a slower solubility rate. Watson manufactures Edible
Glitter with various solubility rates that are ideal for use in high active
water systems. Furthermore, an insoluble product is available using sodium
alginate, which is stable in a water environment for a prolonged period
of time.
Color
Watson manufactures a full spectrum
of colored glitter products using FD&C, EU and Natural colorants. Watson
can also match a custom color using a Pantone system of color matching.
Watson produces custom blends of colored glitter using up to five different
colors.
Glitter can be used to add Color
You can easily change your standard
product into a seasonal item just by adding the correct colored glitter
to most any surface.
Color is the first thing that often
attracts us to a food. The way it looks on a package can often influence
our product choices. This is especially true when it comes to children.
Glitter appeals to children, who market studies have shown are growing
in buying influence.
To name a few applications, colored Glitter can be used to decorate baked goods and can be sprinkled over ice cream, mixed into yogurt, gelatins and pudding products.
Carnival Glitter will give a rainbow
appearance to any product making it irresistible to any child.
Glitter can be used to add Color
and Sweetness
Color and a non-nutritive sweetener
such as sucrolose can be added to glitter. Acesulfame K, Splenda, and Nutrasweet
can also be used. Glitter with sweetness can replace sugar topping in sugar
free or low carbohydrate products.
Sugar Free Product and Low Carbohydrate Products: these difficult to formulate products often leave food technologists little room for decorative sprinkles to make products more attractive. Edible glitter is sugar free, carbohydrate free and adds no calories to your product. You can add color and sweetness without impacting the nutritional panel.
Glitter can be used to add color
and Flavor
Watson can formulate Edible Glitter
using a custom flavor or a proprietary flavor supplied by the customer.
We also have a range of flavors available as standard products. For example:
cheddar flavor, jalapeno flavor, chicken flavor, strawberry, raspberry,
mint, butterscotch, sour green apple and mouth puckering lemon ... just
to name a few.
Glitter with flavor contributes some special qualities to the flavor profile of your product. Thin flakes made with gum arabic melt quickly on your tongue. This gives you “instant flavor impact.” This flavor comes out much faster than a standard flavor.
The quick releasing flavor of glitter, coupled with a slower releasing flavor can give the effect of “flavor change”. For example, if you made a banana flavored gumdrop with strawberry glitter on it, the first flavor impact would be the strawberry, followed by strawberry/banana and finally just banana. Try this with chocolate/cherry, cinnamon/apple, pineapple/coconut ... and any other flavor combinations you dream up.
Create peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with a whole new dimension by sprinkling Strawberry Glitter onto peanut butter crackers. Raspberry Glitter is also available.
Sprinkle Jalapeno Glitter onto the surface of a cracker, and you will get instant jalapeno flavor followed by the flavor of the cracker, which can also be flavored with additional jalapeno. This allows the consumer to get a prolonged burst of flavor. Try this with Cheddar Glitter on snack chips, which gives a BIG cheddar flavor.
Sugar free products can have enhanced
color, flavor and sweetness by sprinkling a little glitter onto the surface
without adding sugar to the product. This can be any diabetics’ dream come
true.