Indena has announced that its grape seed extract Enovita obtained self-affirmed GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) status for use as food ingredient in a number of food categories including beverages and beverage bases, breakfast cereals, fats and oils, frozen dairy desserts and mixes, grain products and pastas, milk – whole and skim - milk products, and processed fruits and fruit juices, at levels up to 291 mg per person per day.
The safety assessment focused on the addition of the extract to a variety of conventional foods to function as an antioxidant and/or emulsifier. The safety profile of ENOVITA is said to be supported by broad-based documentation, including animal studies, metabolism studies, human experience, in vitro studies and refined chemical characterisation.
Enovita’s production facility has been inspected by the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition of the FDA for compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and ensures full traceability from grape harvest to the finished product.
Using only water as extraction solvent, Enovita is a food grade grape seed extract the development of which, said the company, has capitalised on Indena’s 40 years’ experience in grape seed extract production.
Enovita, a proprietary proanthocyanidin (OPCs) rich extract, is a natural antioxidant and capillarotropic, made exclusively with grape seeds from white wine production. It is standardised to provide ≥95.0% of proanthocyanidins by spectrophotometry, ≥5.0% ≤15.0% of catechin and epicatechin by HPLC.
Enovita is produced under HACCP conditions in a GMP and ISO 14001 certified facility. Furthermore, Enovita is Halal and Kosher certified and Indena says that its environmentally friendly production process is designed to minimise the production of waste.
