Solutions & Applications

Make a good start in formula development with nutritious base powders

A nutritional base powder is the foundation infant and young child formula can be built on. Our versatile Essential® base powders and Vana®-Sana nutritional oil powders provide most of the essential ingredients required to develop a final formula for infants and young children while offering convenience and flexibility for manufacturers.

A base powder consists of an oil blend, which usually accounts for around half the content, plus milk proteins, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins. It only takes a simple dry-blending process to enhance base powder with added ingredients of your choice to produce a solution for your infant and young child formula.

Choosing the right base powder

We offer a range of Essential® base powders derived from fresh milk from our member dairy farmers, as well as nutritional oil powders in our Vana®-Sana range, each targeted to meet the preferences of parents, infants and young children while ensuring a simple formulation process for brands.

Did you know? 

  • Our infant-formula grade base powders contain vegetable oil blends designed to meet your specific needs for balancing alpha-linolenic acid with linoleic acid content (ALA:LA ratio), or for using a specific type of vegetable oil.
  • Plus, we ensure mineral and vitamin levels are precisely balanced for the desired nutritional profile.
  • The matrices used in our base powders are designed to fit the final application, effortlessly: they contain nutritious milk proteins, as well as lactose as a carbohydrate source.
  • All the milk-derived ingredients in our base powders are manufactured from bovine milk sourced within our own cooperative, ensuring a short, tightly controlled and transparent supply chain.
  • Flexibility comes first with the right base powder: they offer a convenient, versatile and efficient solution for kick-starting any early life nutrition product.

Related Ingredients

Base powders

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Essential® Start IF

  • Manufactured from our fresh milk

  • Contains demineralised whey (Deminal® 90)

  • Whey protein to casein ratio of 57:43

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Essential® Start YCF

  • Manufactured from our fresh milk

  • Ideal for usage in young child formula

  • Carbohydrates: 100% lactose

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Essential® Enriched Milk Fat

  • Manufactured from our fresh milk

  • Whey protein:casein ratio of 60:40

  • Contains Vivinal® Milk Fat Blend 30

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Vana®-Sana MCT-70 IF

  • Contains encapsulated MCT oil

  • high-quality proteins and carbohydrates

  • Quick energy source for infants

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Vana®-Sana BM-50-135 IF

  • High in omega 3 and 6 fatty acids

  • high-quality proteins and carbohydrates

  • Heat-stable and highly soluble

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Vana®-Sana BM-50-120 IF

  • high-quality proteins and carbohydrates

  • high-quality nutritional oils

  • Based on glucose

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Vana®-Sana BM-50-124 IF

  • high-quality proteins and carbohydrates

  • high-quality nutritional oils

  • Based on lactose

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Other Solution and Applications

Need help finding or choosing the right base powder?

FrieslandCampina Ingredients provides a variety of ingredient solutions to support the growth and development of babies after birth and during childhood. Our offering doesn’t stop with the portfolio we already have available. With innovation at our heart and a proactive mindset, we have a strong reputation for developing customised base powders and nutritional oil powders, formulated to a customer’s exact requirements. From ideation to implementation, our focus is on value and quality from start to finish. Our innovations in infant and young child formula are backed by over 75 years manufacturing experience in the field of early life nutrition. Our dedicated production facilities meet high quality standards, and our heritage in this unique industry underpins our rigorous quality procedures and advanced laboratory processes. Discover everything you need to bring high-quality, parent-preferred infant and young child formula to market, along with personalised support from our passionate experts.

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