Food Ingredients

Oterra™ Natural Colors for candies and confectioneries provide a color palette even Cupid would adore! As the world’s leading supplier of natural colors, Oterra continues their dedication to applying the goodness and purity of nature to our food. Their advanced technology and mission promotes every step -or arrow!- in the right direction to suit various applications with no compromise on quality or safety, therefore offering a wide product range.

If you are looking for natural colors to help create products for the day of love, there are several Oterra products available. Each offer a full spectrum of colors and natural ingredients to help produce the best color for your specific application.

• I-Colors®: Colorful, instant powders that plate well and hydrate easily.
  • Promotes resilient coatings for easy, trouble-free panning.

Maxiren® XDS and Nelson-Jameson make a GOUDA couple!

You FETA BRIE-LIEVE IT!

And yes, we are together for the long haul.

Maxiren® XDS is a fermentation produced chymosin (FPC) that protects, preserves, and optimizes the required coagulant in the cheese process helping cheese reach its full potential of GRATE taste and big smiles. There is an increase of flexibility in the cheese production when Maxiren® XDS is involved. This extraordinary coagulant has a high specificity which lowers the amount of coagulant required, and aids in slowing the breakdown of cheese proteins, resulting in enhanced cheese textures. The enriched texture maintains a longer shelf life which allows shredding, slicing, and dicing to be smooth, natural, and more efficient through different cheese stages.

Whether you make beverages, confectionery, dairy products, ice cream, or other prepared foods, together with Oterra, we can help match the exact color you need for your product. Covering natural colors, fruit, and vegetable concentrates, there are more than 600 unique products. Together we will work to develop unique new colors designed to optimize your formulation and bring extra value to your new, or redesigned products.

Oterra has a robust global quality management system and supply chain that promise to consistently deliver the right quality, at the right time, and in the right amount. Focusing on quality control, product safety, and product security at every stage of activity throughout the entire value chain—raw material selection, surveillance of suppliers through production and packaging, distribution, and application on your premises.

Forty years ago, DSM introduced Delvotest®, an easy to use, reliable, antibiotic residue test for farmers, dairies, and milk control laboratories. Today, Delvotest® is the gold standard for antibiotic residue testing in the global dairy industry, since it provides the confidence to meet increasingly stringent global legislation and quality demands.

When it comes to individuals daily food consumption, the last thing we seem to worry about is the presence of antibiotic residue in our meats or dairy products. But if a dairy cow had an antibiotic in its system that was designed to fight off a bacterial infection, the residue from the antibiotic could easily be carried over to the milk the cow produced, which is not good. If the entire tank truck of milk was contaminated with antibiotics, the whole thing must be discarded per the FDA.

Have you heard the term Annatto before? You're probably wondering if it's a fun tropical island you can travel to, or maybe even an article of clothing you can wear, but really, it's something that is more prevalent in your daily life than you had imagined.

Annatto is a type of food coloring made from the seeds of the achiote tree. It ranges from yellow to red-orange in hue, depending on the application and dosage rate, and is a staple in the food and beverage industry. It is also considered a staple in the dairy industry because it is stable, economical, and comes in a wide variety of forms, including powder, paste, liquid, and essential oils, making it applicable for use in

Annatto extract is a carotenoid color extracted from the coatings of seeds from the tropical achiote shrub and can be either oil-soluble (bixin) or water-soluble (norbixin). It ranges from yellow to red-orange in hue depending on the application and dosage rate, and is a staple in the food and beverage industry. Annatto is stable, economical, and comes in a wide variety of forms, making it appropriate for use in almost any application. Available as powders and liquids, in both water soluble and oil soluble formulations along with Certified Organic liquid.

Other colors from natural sources like fruits, vegetables and seeds result in beautiful natural colors that meet the needs of consumers and manufacturers alike. Consumer interest in healthier products is shifting towards more natural ingredients. To meet the demand for safe and sustainable food, Nelson-Jameson can offer options for your color application.

Contact our Ingredients Specialists for more information at (800)

While whipping up a quick dinner recently, I decided to use my handy-dandy microwave to get the rice cooking portion of the meal done. Just below, the thrilling smells of cooking vegetables and fish wafted up as I did my best not to burn what was in the pan in front of me on the stove.  Feeling good about my culinary self momentarily, I casually glanced up at the microwave.  Torrents of foam cascaded out of the vessel I had put the rice in...in the end, I had cooked rice and a significant starchy mess to clean up. When on top of a freshly poured beer, a healthy level of foam can bring me great joy; in this instance, it brought me back to Earth in terms of thinking about my talents in the kitchen.  

Now, take that unfortunate incident and think about a food processing facility producing your favorite products. Foam happens in many food

Do you like things spicy? Are you prone to throw a bit (or a lot) of pepperjack on your sandwich to remind you you’re alive? Maybe the mild burn isn’t enough for you...maybe you want to take your taste buds to the edge, shaking the very fabric of common sense, by combining ghost pepper cheese and that cracker?  For those looking to add a bit of “pep” with your pepper, to those aiming to melt their very consciousnesses, Nelson-Jameson is a progressive enabler of the peppery American palate.

Working together with another family-owned company, EDCO Food Products, Nelson-Jameson hauls approximately 20 truckloads of peppers up to Wisconsin every month. Those peppers are distributed to food processors