UHT milk after 12 weeks of light exposure in a retail setting
Vitamin A
▾ 93%
Vitamin B2
▾ 100%
Vitamin D
▾ 66%
Lights out on content damage
Consumer Goods and Light
Noluma International, LLC advises on maximizing the light protection capacity of packaging and can contribute to the optimal design of packaging materials to achieve the highest efficacy in light protection. This leads to increased freshness, stable sensory characteristics, preservation of nutrients or other elements and extended shelf life of many products. The technology is applicable to many industries whose products are susceptible to changes under conditions of light exposure, whether outdoors, indoors, under retail lights, kitchen, refrigerator or vanity lights. This patented technology is available only through Noluma, and is a unique state-of-the-art technology that measures the light protection capacity of packaging as a function of its effects on contents.
This is particularly important to the consumer goods industry where any type of light (fluorescent, UV, LED, etc.) can cause nutrient degradation, element decomposition, changed sensory characteristics like taste, smell or color, and thus cause a shorter shelf life.
Has your milk gone bad sooner than expected?
Are your kids getting the nutrients they deserve?
Has your expensive face cream turned yellow?
Does your cooking oil smell rancid?
Does your medicine seem less potent?
Does your beverage look different?
Is your vitamin really supplementing?
Does your fortified or enriched juice still have its vitamins?
Noluma Light Protection Technology has the answers
Consumer packaged goods, including foods, beverages, and cosmetics, are valued for their performance, nutritional and sensory attributes.
Did you know that scientific research has demonstrated that light degrades the components of many consumer goods, including cosmetics, beverage and food products?
Even exposure to retail lights cause elements and nutrients to degrade, and consumers notice changes in color, smell and texture.
Noluma International, LLC offers expert technical guidance to achieve light protection packaging objectives.
We use a patented Light Protection Factor (LPF) measurement in order to guide and design optimal light protective packaging for a variety of consumer good applications.
A Noluma logo on your packaging certifies that your container meets performance standards for light protection. Noluma’s select masterbatch partners help you meet light performance specifications.
The Effects of Light
Noluma offers expert technical guidance to achieve light protection objectives.
After 1 hour of sunlight exposure, Riboflavin nutrient was reduced 28%
After just 14 days of retail light exposure in a PET bottle, a fortified reduced fat UHT milk retained only a fraction of its nutrients:
Riboflavin
▾ 45%
Vitamin A
▾ 60%
Vitamin D
▾ 80%
Speed to Market with Noluma™ Services
Compared to sensory panel evaluation, the licensed measurement technology used by Noluma is state-of-the art and provides a prediction of nutrient changes with less than 1% of resources. This patented light protection technology does in one hour what other methods take two weeks to complete. It is unique in that it correlates its Lights Protection Factor (LPF) to content integrity.
Number of Packages
Sensory: 500
Noluma: 1
Percent Reduction:
99.8%
Volume of Sample (mL)
Sensory: 250,000
Noluma: 30
Percent Reduction:
99.9%
Number of Appraisals
Sensory: 200
Noluma: 1
Percent Reduction:
99.5%
Time to Results (Hr)
Sensory: 720
Noluma: 1
Percent Reduction:
99.7%
Measuring Light Protection
The Technology
This measurement technology provides an intense light exposure to a marker solution shielded by a package. In the case of dairy, this is Riboflavin (RF)
During the light exposure, changes to the marker are tracked and are used to determine a Light Protection Factor (LPF) for the package.
LPF Designs for Nutrient Preservation in Dairy
Designs with LPF performance can enhance Riboflavin retention in milk under retail storage conditions
Equipment measures RF decay as a function of packaging
Increasing the light protection performance of a package design leads to enhancement of the nutrients retained in the milk during retail storage
The data presented in our graphs here and below represent predicted results based on the technology used by Noluma International, LLC in correlation with the literature listed in our bibliography.
Designing for Nutrient Preservation in Dairy
LPF Designs also protect other light sensitive milk nutrients including Vitamins A and D.
Model uses known relationship between RF and vitamin decay (Saffert et al. 2009)
LPF Designs also protect other light sensitive milk nutrients including Vitamins A and D.
Model uses known relationship between RF and vitamin decay (Saffert et al. 2009)
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