Scatter light
Reduce a thin, translucent appearance and create a controlled, uniform cloud.
BINDING AGENT CONCENTRATES · MADE IN TAIWAN
1XA and 5XA help beverage formulators build cloud, opacity and perceived concentration—without positioning the product as a traditional clouding agent.

Official name: Binding Agent
Buyers may reach Din-Chiao while searching for a beverage clouding agent, cloudifier, cloud emulsion or opacifier. Those are useful search contexts—not alternate product names.
Din-Chiao Binding Agent is a palm-oil-based, oil-in-water compound food ingredient containing modified starch. It contains no gum arabic and is not a traditional clouding agent. In Taiwan it is managed as a compound food ingredient rather than a food additive. Destination-market review, labeling and finished-product validation remain the buyer’s responsibility.
Read the product-category guide →Reduce a thin, translucent appearance and create a controlled, uniform cloud.
Help selected fruit, citrus and carotenoid color systems read with greater visual depth.
Build perceived concentration without treating opacity as a juice-content claim.
02 / GRADE SELECTION
Screen against pH, Brix, juice solids, hydrocolloids, oil-soluble flavor, color, shear, heat and storage. Din-Chiao can help define a first trial—commercial use levels must be validated in the customer formula.
For fruit syrups, beverage bases and selected formulas seeking controlled opacity without an aggressive cloud.
For systems requiring a more pronounced cloud. Internal guidance indicates a 2–6× visual-density lift versus 1XA, depending on formula and process.
03 / APPLICATION SCREEN
For importers, ingredient distributors, syrup makers, beverage plants and co-packers that can run structured trials.
Juice drinks, fruit-flavored beverages, nectars, soft drinks and reduced-juice formulas.
Electrolyte, isotonic, energy and other selected ready-to-drink systems.
Fruit syrups, fountain and post-mix syrups, high-Brix bases and beverage concentrates.
Jam-style systems, fruit toppings, glazes, jellies and gel desserts—after interaction testing.
Evaluate with oil-soluble citrus flavors or carotenoid colors in the customer’s actual formula.

04 / FIRST TRIAL
Category, pH, Brix, juice solids and hydrocolloids
Desired opacity, color and benchmark appearance
Heat, shear, order of addition and storage conditions
Standard 1XA and 5XA contain no added preservatives and have a seven-month unopened shelf life. For qualified export or special projects above an agreed MOQ, a preserved version may be evaluated subject to destination-market requirements and shelf-life validation.
05 / TECHNICAL LIBRARY
Use the focused guides to prepare a more useful formulation conversation.
DIN-CHIAO FOOD BIOTECH CO., LTD. · TAIWAN