Food & Beverage Activated Carbon

AC&C Activated Carbon products are often used to make beverages look and taste better. Many food and beverage products require activated carbon to improve purity, appearance, or other sensory characteristics. Common applications for AC&C Activated Carbon products include treating cane sugar, purifying edible oils, removing color from fruit juices, modifying flavor characteristics in alcoholic beverages, and improving food additive flavors. These activated carbons also play a key role in making certain food ingredients safe to eat.
Beverages
From makers of fruit juice to distilled spirits, our beverage producing customers both whet and quench the thirst of consumers everywhere with the use of ac&c Activated Carbon’s granulated and powdered activated carbon products.
Edible Oils
Crude nut and vegetable oils are typically treated with bleaching earth to remove color bodies.  AC&C   Activated Carbon products are used to improve adsorption and removal of carotenoids, chlorophyllis, and xanthrophyllis as well as remove polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH.
Flavors
Hydrolyzed vegetable proteins (HVPs) and monosodium glutamate (MSG) are common additives used in the food industry. AC&C Activated Carbon's high quality powdered activated carbon lighten and refine the flavor of these food additives.
    
Food Chemicals
Among the more common food chemicals are natural glycerin and citric acid. AC&C Activated Carbon's products are used to eliminate color and odor-causing substances from these chemicals.
Sweetenteners
Whether our customers need to remove color, protein, foam or hydroxyl methyl furfural (HMF), AC&C Activated Carbon offers high purity powdered and granular activated carbon (PAC and GAC) with the accurate pore size distribution (PSD) to purify sweeteners.