Vitamins are among the most essential nutrients for keeping our bodies and minds healthy. Some vitamins assist in the body's defense against infections and viruses, while others promote health, wellness, and overall health.
Vitamin supplements can be obtained from plant or animal products or synthesized in a laboratory through chemical changes. Minerals are inorganic elements found in soil and water that are absorbed or consumed by plants and animals. Some minerals, such as calcium, are essential for your body's growth and health.
Vitamins are organic compounds that the body requires to operate normally. Vitamins and nutrients are used to boost the immune system to grow and fight off a variety of syndromes and conditions, as well as to prevent disease.
There are numerous vitamin brands on the market, but the vitamin manufacturing process can differ. Because of its importance, the liquid and food supplement vitamin industry is constantly expanding, with more brands launching every year to offer the highest quality supplements.
Steps of Vitamin Supplements Manufacturing
The process of making vitamins is identical regardless of whether you want to make a chemical or natural vitamin.
Here is a breakdown of the vitamin production process into seven steps:
Formulation
Depending on your response, you can calculate the most appropriate doses of raw material ingredients and deliver an evidence-based supplement with efficient structural and reliable claims.
However, while a well-formulated vitamin supplement does not guarantee initial sales, it does increase the possibility of repeat sales once customers have tried it for the first time.
Allocation of Raw Materials
The next step is to locate vendors who sell high-quality raw materials and other ingredients. Other components include important compounds that will play different roles, like binders, fillers, flow agents, and so on, and will vary depending on whether your finished product is a powder, capsule, or tablet.
A well-structured liquid vitamin supplement needs to use scientific proof ingredients to determine product efficacy. Ingredients can be selected from all over the world based on their high effectiveness and bioavailability.
Pre-blending
Raw materials are typically provided in the form of fine powder and may not require any preliminary processing. Some vitamins are preblended with a filler ingredient, such as microcrystalline cellulose or maltodextrin, to develop a more uniform granule that facilitates the subsequent processing steps. When working on new ingredients, laboratory technicians may create test batches to ascertain whether pre-blending is required.
Wet Granulation
The particle size of vitamin tablets is important for determining how well your formula will run through a tableting machine. There is no necessity for a wet granulation step if the raw vitamins arrive from the supplier milled to the acceptable size for tableting.
Otherwise, the fine vitamin powder is combined with various cellulose particles, wetted, and dried in a dryer. The formula may be in fragments after drying. In this case, the powder will need to be milled to verify that it is of the proper size. To attain the ideal granule size, the mill forces them down a small hole.
Weighing and Mixing
When the vitamin ingredients are complete, they are weighed on a scale. A formula batch record lists the required weights of each ingredient. After weighing, the ingredients are combined in a mixer for 15-30 minutes. Samples are then taken from various sides of the mixer and analyzed to check that all ingredients are distributed and proportioned evenly.
Encapsulation
When the batch in the mixer has been approved, it is transferred to an encapsulating machine and placed in a bucket. A test batch is run through the encapsulating machine first to guarantee that the capsules are of consistent and effective weight.
Based on the brand owner's specifications, the final vitamin mixture is compressed into tablets, perhaps with a coating, or encapsulated in preformed gelatin capsules.
Packaging and Labeling
Coated vitamin tablets are transmitted through a row of machines in the packaging area. The machine is scheduled to count the number of capsules or tablets necessary per bottle.
The capsules or tablets are dropped into a bottle, which is then sealed, capped, labeled, and shrink-wrapped by the next machine. Each bottle is classified with the contents, preferred usage, and expiry date. These final product bottles are then placed in boxes and prepared for shipment.
The Bottom-line
As the vitamin manufacturing process is so complicated, many new business owners chose to work with a trustable and experienced contract manufacturer. For large-scale production orders, partnering with a reputable contract manufacturing company is the best option.
NutraPak has been the pioneer vitamin manufacturing company in the USA. We offer contract manufacturing, supplying, order fulfillment, warehousing, and a variety of other services. Our fish oil and food supplement vitamins are popular products that we supply.
Contact us for your next vitamin manufacturing project!
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