Providing and transforming exceptional raw materials for our B2B and B2C industrial customers is the very essence of Natural Origins and its added value. From sourcing raw materials from supply chains around the world to providing multi-market formulations, find out here how we can help you create a high value proposition that sets you apart in terms of customer experience, thanks to our feedback from D2C (Direct to Consumer) product launches.
Natural Origins supply chains and our exclusive sourcing
Long-lasting partnerships and outstanding storytelling for B2B and B2C
It all starts with sourcing... In more than sixty countries, Natural Origins has forged lasting, ethical and solidarity-based links with a number of long-standing partners. Local farmers, co-operatives, farmers and other collaborators have always worked alongside us to guarantee botanicals with unique and intact organoleptic qualities. We also regularly carry out missions in the field, as close as possible to the agricultural supply chains, and work hand in hand with our partners.
In order to offer you the very best in botanical ingredient sourcing, Natural Origins has chosen supply chains from unique regions whose geographical and climatic particularities enable our botanicals to thrive in the best possible conditions.
Our partnerships also demonstrate our commitment to using natural ingredients from sustainable, ethical and transparent supply chains. Natural Origins has been awarded the Responsible label since 2007 by the certification body ECOCERT, guaranteeing all its customers stringent specifications, evidenced in particular by the Organic, For Life and Fair for Life certifications.
Through our solidarity-based collaboration with local workers who take care of the botanicals, their harvest and their land, we guarantee the human and environmental values to which we are committed.
These collaborations are also of prime concern to the B2C market and to end consumers, who want to make their purchases meaningful and in line with an eco-responsible approach.
New consumer-actors are taking greater account of sustainable development criteria (reduction of carbon footprint, organic farming, etc.) in their decision-making, and are seeking information on the supply chain and the origin of ingredients, how they are grown (societal impact) and their composition.
Natural Origins' ethical, socially responsible and sustainable raw materials enable you to meet these expectations and reassure consumers by highlighting a brand story that builds trust and acceptance. Choosing ingredients from our supply chains enables you to demonstrate your commitment to consumers and create the storytelling that will enhance your finished product.
Quality, traceability and transparency
All our botanicals are freshly harvested and dried at the right time of year, an essential criterion for obtaining optimum quality raw materials.
This process helps to preserve the botanicals’ full aromatic properties, as well as the richness and potency of their active ingredients. Healthy and authentic, our botanical ingredients embody traceability, quality and transparency, enabling you to stand out in the marketplace. Our raw materials, from the moment they are sourced right through to the moment the products are made available, raise consumer awareness of an eco-responsible, safe and sustainable production method. Thanks to this unique approach, you can add value to your formulations and reveal the potential of your ingredients through a storytelling process that appeals to and reassures buyers. Each of our products has a specific story to tell, revolving around a particular culture, country and unique expertise in medicinal and aromatic botanicals.
Our botanical products are rich in active ingredients
Botanicals with optimal nutritional properties
Consumers are now in search of naturalness in their daily lives and are keen to incorporate botanicals for their benefits into their health routine. Antioxidants such as flavonoids, vitamins and minerals are highly popular, helping to combat frequent sleep, digestion and the immune system problems, while promoting general well-being.
The Natural Origins botanical portfolio includes 450 different botanicals and 2,000 ingredients with therapeutic properties and optimum active ingredients.
Whether seed, root, bark, berry, flower, leaf or fruit, each Natural Origins botanical ingredient is used to develop sensory products that seduce with their infinite possibilities of taste, colour and texture.
Providing superfoods with high nutritional value and quality are essential assets in meeting consumers' high expectations for products with natural phyto-active properties, and to consumers who are paying greater attention to composition and ingredients.
For example, our lemon balm from French supply chains has a high rosmarinic acid content, with a titration of 5%, made possible by an optimal harvesting period in spring.
Harvested by hand, mainly in Ghana, the fruits of our baobab are opened one by one to recover the pulp, which is then sun dried.
An adaptogenic botanical renowned for its impact on performance during exercise and concentration, Natural Origins’ ginseng, like our other botanicals, undergoes systematic monitoring to ensure that it complies with organic farming standards, as well as the dosage of active ingredients, the presence of contaminants, and so on.
Examples of leading ingredients
Our Natural Origins product range includes superfruits such as goji berries, spirulina and acai, all sources of exceptional nutrients.
The baobab fruit, for example, contains a considerable amount of vitamins (thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and seven times more vitamin C than oranges), minerals (potassium, phosphorus and calcium) and soluble fibre.
Moringa, chlorella and turmeric are other examples of botanical ingredients whose virtues and health benefits are great assets for consumers looking for functional claims and superfoods in their daily lives.
Flaxseed, rich in fibre and protein, is both a staple ingredient for vegans and an interesting alternative for people with gluten intolerance.
Originating in South America, acerola is the best natural source of vitamin C (30 times more concentrated than citrus fruits), providing energy and boosting immunity. Its active molecules, bioflavonoids, promote the bioavailability of its natural vitamin C content.
Transformation adapted to your needs
The Natural Origins' Botanical Center: a state-of-the-art technology tool for all markets
Based in Soyons near Valence (France), our Botanical Center aims to meet market expectations, and in particular the needs of our B2B partner customers via our extensive portfolio of raw materials, from development to marketing of the ingredient, enables us to ensure total monitoring of the production chain and to certify the traceability of our products.
All the technologies needed to process botanicals are assembled here (sorting, cutting, grinding, heat treatment, extraction and spray-drying) for a very extensive catalogue of B2B botanical ingredients dedicated to "Aromatic" and "Health" applications:
- cut botanicals,
- powders,
- dry and liquid extracts, etc.
In addition, the Botanical Center brings together the latest industrial developments in botanical extraction, while offering flexibility, versatility and transparency.
This makes it easy to switch from one product to another, with all types of extraction (aqueous, ethanolic), regardless of the form of the botanical (seed, bark, leaf, etc.).
These advantages also enable us to offer you customised solutions, such as small batches for your various B2C projects, using a precise, reliable and controlled process.
A wide range of formulations for infinite applications
Our innovative, state-of-the-art production facilities allow us to carry out a wide range of customised recipes, enabling you to cash in on the wave of the latest food and nutraceutical trends and formats.
With an infinite range of possibilities, we can offer you solutions tailored to each of your B2C projects, whether for your drinks, teas and infusions, nutraceutical galenics or any other applications using functional ingredients.
Whether you want to add an aromatic touch or provide a health benefit with our functional ingredients, you can carry out a formulation that will enable you to appeal to consumers looking for new natural concepts, gourmet pleasure and products that are easy to incorporate into everyday life.
At the same time, and in order to inspire our B2B customers as much as possible, Natural Origins is putting its best product concepts on the market so that we can test them directly with consumers and give you the benefit of feedback. So, you can choose with confidence a turnkey solution that has been validated by the market and approved by our nutritionists.
With our Natural Origins Lifestyle product range, for example, we can offer you a D2C model based on positive feedback that can be reproduced for the B2C market with, among other things, our Doypack® format bagging line or pre-dosed powder sachets.
Natural Origins gives you the impetus to innovate by enabling you to reproduce and test the promotion of botanical ingredients in concepts that appeal, surprise and arouse desire. You'll be able to carry out initial limited production series to validate your approach to the market and consumer feedback.
In a nutshell, we can accompany you through the launch process, using, among other things, criteria that are both convincing and have already been validated in a D2C context. It's up to you to carry out original, customised recipes that will give you a strong, relevant identity and help you stand out in the B2C market.
From the sourcing of our botanicals to their processing, our positioning is designed to add value to your marketing. By going beyond the classic product concept, Natural Origins fine-tunes its botanical formulations as closely as possible to your needs, to ensure that your customers appreciate our tried and tested concepts. Via this model, which can be reproduced and modified at will, you can save time, boost your innovations and get the inspiration you need to confidently launch your products.
Our dedicated product range
- Clear Water Soluble extracts (soluble extracts with health benefits) can be used in spirits, flavoured waters, powdered drinks to be reconstituted, effervescent tablets and carbonated drinks.
- Taste Giving Extracts or TGEs (ethanolic aromatic botanical extracts or 0.0) are natural extracts that are as close as possible to the original botanical in terms of taste (organoleptic complexity and olfactory profile of each botanical), formulated in liquid or powder form and suitable for a wide range of formulations (nutraceuticals, food and beverages).
- Optifine® powders (dispersible powders <100 µm) are designed for your food (snacks, chocolates, drinks...) and nutraceutical (sticks, shots, gummies...) formulations.
Applications by markets sector
- Teas & Infusions: bulk, infusette, pyramid, blends
- Spirits & beers: raw, coarse cuts, TGE
- Soft drinks and Juice: CWS, TGE, Optifine®
- Dairy products, ice creams, snacks & Optifine® cereals, TGE
- Functional nutrition: Optifine® , botanical 300 µm powders
- Food supplements: Extracts ratio or standardised in active ingredients, Botanical powders 300 µm
Coming soon, discover our new article: From B2B to B2C via D2C with Natural Origins | Step 2: Natural Origins Lifestyle and its ambassadors
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Maxime Angelucci
President & Partner Natural Origins
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