Food & Beverage

Your strategic partner in Food & Beverage. We combine technical expertise with end-to-end 3PL infrastructure to elevate product quality across New Zealand and Australia. Whether navigating complex procurement, ensuring QA compliance, or optimising nutritional value, our local teams deliver certainty from source to shelf.

Nutrition & Wellbeing

Our Nutrition & Wellbeing portfolio is designed to support modern health demands with scientifically grounded, high-performance ingredients. From essential vitamins and minerals that underpin daily physiological function, to targeted amino acids and plant proteins that support muscle health and metabolic balance, each component is selected for purity, bioavailability, and efficacy.

We offer advanced solutions including collagen for skin and joint support, and a full spectrum of gut-health ingredients such as probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics, formulated to promote microbiome balance and digestive resilience. Functional fibres like resistant dextrin contribute to satiety and glycaemic control, while chelates enhance mineral absorption for optimal nutritional uptake.

Our expertise extends to encapsulation technologies, enabling precise delivery, improved stability, and enhanced shelf life of sensitive actives. Whether developing supplements, functional foods, or fortified beverages, these ingredients are engineered to deliver measurable health benefits and consistent product performance.

Taste & Colour

Our Taste & Colour solutions are engineered to define the sensory identity of your product—delivering consistent flavour, visual appeal, and consumer impact across every batch. From authentic flavours and extracts to high-performance colours and caramel colour systems, we provide ingredients that enhance both perception and product differentiation.

We offer depth and complexity through yeast extracts and HVP (hydrolysed vegetable protein), delivering rich umami profiles for savoury applications. Natural and concentrated sources such as oleoresins, spice extracts, and vanilla ensure clean-label flavour delivery with strong aromatic integrity.

For visual and functional enhancement, our range includes burnt sugar, juice powders, and dehydrated vegetables, supporting both colour development and flavour layering. Sweeteners and superfoods enable formulation flexibility across health-conscious and indulgent product lines.

Complete solutions are available through customised seasoning blends, designed for consistency, scalability, and targeted flavour profiles across snacks, ready meals, beverages, and more.

Texture & Structure

Our Texture & Structure ingredient solutions are designed to improve stability, mouthfeel, processing performance, and overall product consistency across a wide range of food and beverage applications. From foundational starches and flours to advanced gums and emulsifiers, we help manufacturers create products with the ideal texture, viscosity, and structural integrity consumers expect.

Functional fibers support moisture retention, texture enhancement, and nutritional positioning, while TVP (textured vegetable protein) delivers meat-like structure and bite for plant-based and hybrid formulations. Precision-selected leavening agents ensure reliable rise, aeration, and product uniformity in bakery and prepared food applications.

Our range of specialty oils and enzymes assists with processing efficiency, shelf stability, softness, and product optimisation throughout production and storage. Whether improving creaminess, crunch, elasticity, suspension, or binding performance, these ingredients are formulated to support scalable manufacturing and consistent end-product quality.

From bakery and dairy to plant-based foods, sauces, snacks, and beverages, our Texture & Structure portfolio helps transform formulations into products that perform as well as they taste.

Performance & Shelf Life

Our Performance & Shelf Life solutions are designed to help food and beverage manufacturers maintain product quality, consistency, and stability throughout production, transport, storage, and consumer use. From advanced anti-oxidants and preservatives to specialised stabilisation systems, these ingredients support extended shelf life while protecting flavour, texture, colour, and freshness.

We supply functional yeast solutions and fining agents that assist with clarification, fermentation performance, processing efficiency, and final product refinement across beverage and food applications. Our stabilisation technologies help minimise separation, degradation, and quality loss, ensuring reliable performance in demanding manufacturing and distribution environments.

In addition to ingredient functionality, we support scalable production requirements through efficient bulk packaging solutions, helping streamline handling, storage, and supply chain operations for commercial manufacturers.

Whether developing beverages, bakery products, sauces, nutraceuticals, or processed foods, our Performance & Shelf Life portfolio helps improve product resilience, reduce waste, and deliver a more stable, commercially reliable end product.

Supplier Partnerships

Sabinsa

Hibiscus Solutions is the exclusive distributor for Sabinsa in New Zealand, supplying high-quality, science-backed nutraceutical ingredients. Their portfolio includes key products like Lactospore®, a proven, shelf-stable probiotic; BioPerine®, the trusted bioavailability enhancer used globally to improve nutrient absorption; and Curcumin C3 Complex®, a highly researched turmeric extract known for its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits. Together, these ingredients support innovative, effective product formulations for the NZ market. Please contact us if you would like to elevate your products using these proven ingredients.
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PROVA

Founded in 1946, PROVA is a medium-sized, family-owned company that specialises in the production of sweet brown extracts and flavours. The company employs more than 300 people, and exports all over the world. PROVA’s global headquarters are in France along with production and packaging capabilities and a Research Centre.
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Sonac by Darling Ingredients

Sonac is a brand of Darling Ingredients, a world leader in circularity by transforming materials from the animal agriculture and food industries into valuable ingredients. Sonac provides innovative, sustainable protein-based solutions to improve binding, coloring, moisture retention, texture and taste in meat and savory products. Our high-performance ingredients enhance product quality to achieve optimal food production results.
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Solyve

Solyve is a French producer and formulator of enzymes and biosolutions, based in Normandy since 1989. Our team of experts develops enzymatic solutions to help food companies meet challenges such as process optimization and improving the quality of food and beverages. Our mission and belief are to provide our partners—manufacturers, formulators, and distributors—with effective, and sustainable enzymatic alternatives.
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Head Group

Hibiscus Solutions is a proud distribution partner for Head Group across New Zealand. We provide specialised technical support and supply chain excellence for their full product range. For technical specifications, safety data sheets (SDS), or to discuss how Head Group ingredients can benefit your formulation, please contact our expert team.
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BIOVIT

Hibiscus Solutions is a proud distribution partner for BIOVIT across New Zealand and Australia. We provide specialised technical support and supply chain excellence for their full product range. For technical specifications, safety data sheets (SDS), or to discuss how BIOVIT ingredients can benefit your formulation, please contact our expert team.
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SMS

SMS has been a global leader in modified tapioca starch since 1985. More than just a supplier, we are your Innovative Starch Partner. Our dedicated technical team provides tailored solutions, supporting you through every step - from recipe creation to production excellence.
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Mingtai Chemical

Hibiscus Solutions is a proud distribution partner for Mingtai Chemical across New Zealand. We provide specialised technical support and supply chain excellence for their full product range. For technical specifications, safety data sheets (SDS), or to discuss how Mingtai Chemical ingredients can benefit your formulation, please contact our expert team.
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Plant-Ex

Hibiscus Solutions is a proud distribution partner for Plant-Ex across Australia. We provide specialised technical support and supply chain excellence for their full product range. For technical specifications, safety data sheets (SDS), or to discuss how Plant-Ex ingredients can benefit your formulation, please contact our expert team.
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