Custom Formulation & R&D

At VitaWorks, our Custom Formulation & R&D services bring your product ideas to life with scientific precision, consumer insight, and responsive collaboration. Whether you’re launching a new concept or evolving an existing product, we’re your strategic formulation partner—fast, flexible, and forward-thinking.

Deep Ingredient & Formulation Expertise

  • We understand more than just ingredients availability and what’s in the market. Our team has extensive knowledge about their unique applications, interactions, bioavailability, sensory behavior, and regulatory nuances.
  • Our team is experienced across all nutritional categories like functional wellness, performance nutrition, adaptogens, botanicals, probiotics, and clean-label innovation and natural flavor and colors systems.
  • We proactively analyze emerging trends, from delivery formats to sweetener technologies and natural masking solutions – we stay ahead of the curve, so you stay ahead of the market.

  1. Discovery & Formulation Briefing
    We facilitate ideation around your brand DNA—target COGS, claims (e.g., “clinically studied,” “allergen-free”), sensory profiles, and positioning.
  2. Feasibility & Technical Mapping
    Our R&D team evaluates ingredient options and compatibility, processing requirements (e.g., powder flow, compression, encapsulation), and preliminary cost models.
  3. Iterative Prototyping
    In average of 5 business days from price review and approval, we deliver your first prototype. As feedback arrives, we refine formulations quickly—whether it’s flavor tweaks, excipient swaps, or texture adjustments—keeping momentum high and development agile.
  4. Validation & Stability Planning
    We incorporate quality and shelf-life considerations early, running pilot stability tests as needed, sensory panels, and physical performance checks to meet or exceed your expectations.

  • Pricing Turnaround: Delivered in 3–5 business days, with tiered cost and ingredient options available.
  • Sample Delivery: First prototypes in 5 business days, with a smooth and responsive revision cycle.
  • Our industry leading Rapid R&D platform puts VitaWorks at the forefront of our industry, and our customers the edge they need for fast-to-market execution without compromising quality

  • Formulation Confidence: Your concepts are backed by scientific rigor and strategic market thinking.
  • Adaptation and Innovation: Whether you need formula modifications for functionality or pricing strategy and mapping, adjustments for improved sensory appeal, or need additional flavor options for a panel review, our team adjusts fast.
  • Seamless Integration: Our R&D function dovetails into Manufacturing & Quality systems, ensuring smooth scaling and compliance from bench to shelf.