Vibrant Ingredients traces its roots to a 1954 clean-label ingredient operation in Eustis, Florida, and now unites that history with the scale of the world’s largest private-equity-owned natural ingredients company. The company helps food and beverage manufacturers develop natural ingredients and custom solutions, working alongside them from concept through commercialization. Its 2026 Innovation Center in Cranbury, New Jersey gives customers a hands-on setting for turning early ideas into market-ready products.
GFSI-certified under the BRC program
GFSI-certified under the SQF program
Kosher-compliant
Rainforest Alliance Certified
Organic Certified
Fair Trade Organic
BRCGS
Quality certification
SQF
Quality certification
Vibrant IngredientsVibrant Ingredients traces its roots to a pioneering 1954 operation in Eustis, Florida, and today brings decades of natural-ingredient expertise together under one name. The company works with food and beverage manufacturers on clean-label development, with its U.S. facilities and new Cranbury Innovation Center supporting projects from early concepts through commercialization.MELVILLE, NY
ingredients PLUSBorn in Lakeville, New York, in 1983 as Sweeteners Plus, ingredients PLUS has spent more than 40 years building an ingredient-supply business for food and beverage manufacturers. Now part of ASR Group, the company is known for pairing in-house expertise with its own delivery fleet to keep customers supplied on schedule across the United States.LAKEVILLE, NY
Universal Ingredients Shank'sWith roots in Lancaster County dating to 1899, Universal Ingredients–Shank’s grew from pharmacist Jacob Shank’s vanilla flavoring business into a long-standing ingredient partner for the food and beverage industry. Today, the company develops extracts and flavors for industrial, grocery and private-label customers, with operations housed in a 191,000-square-foot headquarters. Shank’s has maintained Safe Quality Food certification since 2010.LANCASTER, PA
FLANAT ResearchFamily-owned Italian company FLANAT Research is known for more than a decade of work turning plants into scientifically supported natural ingredients. Its circular “soil to solution” approach uses the whole plant and serves manufacturers developing supplements and functional foods, with proprietary FLANAcTives ingredients backed by analytical and clinical research.