Chemistry meets sports: Enhancing anti-caking properties in instant sports drinks

Powder handling is a crucial challenge in sports nutrition, where flowability, stability, and consistency define both product quality and production efficiency. In this session, OQEMA and Evonik explore how advanced silica and silicate technologies can optimise instant sports drink formulations by preventing caking, improving flow, and ensuring a smooth manufacturing process.

Speaker

Katrin Saelzer

supplier

Evonik

Evonik Anti-Caking
Evonik  Anti-Caking

The webinar dives into the mechanisms behind caking and poor powder flow, explaining how moisture uptake, particle size, and surface structure influence powder performance. It highlights how Evonik’s functional silicas act as effective flow aids and anti-caking agents, creating a microstructure that keeps particles separate and free-flowing, even under challenging humidity conditions. Practical examples illustrate how adjusting silica grade and concentration can fine-tune behaviour across different base materials, such as maltodextrin or protein powders.

Evonik Food Hero
Evonik Food Hero

Evonik silica for Food

Functional silicas that improve flowability, reduce caking, and stabilise powder-based food systems. Designed to optimise handling, processing efficiency, and product consistency in modern Food & Nutrition applications.