What is binders and fillers

As you read through, you may find some obscure sounding ingredients, like Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose or Vegetable Stearate. While these ingredients might sound a little suspicious at first glance, each serves a purpose in the manufacturing process. During manufacturing, small quantities of certain ingredients need to be added to optimize delivery in a capsule, tablet, or softgel. These ingredients function as binders, fillers, and excipients and are widely used in packaged food, over-the-counter and prescription medications, and nutritional supplement manufacturing.

When manufacturing any vitamin or pharmaceutical capsule, binders and fillers act as the necessary base for the contents. They keep the powder together and the formula stable for consumption.

Excipients are inactive ingredients that serve as the carrier vehicle for active ingredients. While some binders, fillers, and excipients are created synthetically, many come from plants.

The good news is that all of these substances are recognized safe for use by the FDA and are added in quantities that do not cause negative health effects.

Artificial Colors: Used to enhance the look of supplements, some artificial coloring is natural while others are not. Some people are allergic to artificial coloring. Calcium Phosphate: Helps to keep the tablet from breaking apart in the bottle. Composed of calcium and phosphorus, which are nutritional minerals. Carrageenan: Vegan thickening agent derived from red seaweed.

While a few studies suggest it may cause gastrointestinal distress and inflammation that would only occur at high intake levels. Citric Acid: Flavoring and preserving agent produced from highly purified corn. Hypromellose: Another form of cellulose from plant fiber used to make vegetarian-friendly capsules.

Binders facilitate cohesion of components in a material with the goal of improving its texture, hardness or specific properties. Our fruit stone powders have been tested across various filling and binding applications. They have proven to be particularly effective at:.

Fruit stone powders are very versatile as binders and fillers and can be used in a wide range of applications from ceramic to paints, varnishes, glues or inks. Besides, bio-based filler materials have proven to be effective performance enhancers of compression molding or cast resins. Increased material safety and simplified disposal recycling are other advantages over synthetic fillers.

Various tests have demonstrated the capacity of our fruit stone powders to enhance porosity in ceramics. Highly porous ceramic products can then be utilized for filtration, separation, purification and diffusion, allowing the free flow of liquid or gas. By integrating our fruit stone powders in your ceramics, you will be able to replace metal, plastic, or fibre-based components, providing higher levels of performance and increasing the lifespan of your product.

An optimized response was built using desirability analysis. This study helps to illuminate the relationship between fillers and binders to guide formulation scientists in the development of tablets with better subdivision performance. Keywords: binder distribution; cellulose excipients; matrix homogeneity; tablet splitting.