Ntura Ingredients

Functional ingredients and custom blends

Sourced globally. Blended locally. Delivered to your line.

Ntura Ingredients supplies food and beverage manufacturers across Africa with the ingredients their products depend on, imported direct and blended at our own warehouse.

Send us your ingredient list

What we do

One supplier between the producer and your production line.

We import directly from established producers, and we mix and combine selected products at our own warehouse. You can buy the standard raw material and the ready-to-dose blend on the same order.

Direct from producers

Import

We buy in volume from ingredient producers abroad and hold stock in the region, so our customers carry less of it.

At our warehouse

Blend

Selected products are mixed and combined into stabiliser systems, premixes and functional blends built around your recipe and process.

To your factory

Deliver

One supplier, one order, one set of paperwork. Every delivery arrives with the documents your quality team needs.

Product range

Everything a food manufacturer needs on the ingredients list.

Ten ingredient groups, supplied as single raw materials or built into a blend. Pick a group to see what is in it.

E-numbers shown where one applies. The range is indicative. If you use it in your plant, ask us for it.

Custom blends

Mixed and combined at our warehouse.

A share of what we sell leaves our warehouse as something different from what arrived: a blend that is ready to dose, made to a specification we agree with you and repeated batch after batch.

Industries we serve

One supplier across the food factory.

  • Beverages

    Acidulants, sweeteners, preservatives, stabilisers, flavours and colours.

  • Dairy and frozen desserts

    Stabiliser systems, starches, sweeteners and flavours.

  • Bakery and milling

    Dextrose, starches, preservatives, leavening phosphates and ascorbic acid.

  • Meat, poultry and fish

    Phosphates, soy proteins, starches, curing aids and flavour enhancers.

  • Confectionery

    Dextrose, glucose, acidulants, gelling agents, flavours and colours.

  • Sauces, soups and seasonings

    Starches, gums, MSG, I+G, acidulants and preservatives.

  • Snacks

    Flavour enhancers, seasoning bases, maltodextrin and acidulants.

  • Brewing and fermentation

    Dextrose, brewing sugars, acids and processing aids.

How we work

From the producer's plant to your production line.

Five steps sit between an overseas producer and a finished product on your line. We run all of them.

  1. 1

    Source

    We select producers on specification, batch consistency and the quality of their food safety documentation.

  2. 2

    Import and stock

    Shipments are consolidated, cleared and warehoused locally, so product is on the ground before you need it.

  3. 3

    Mix and combine

    Where a blend serves you better than single ingredients, we produce it at our warehouse to a fixed written specification.

  4. 4

    Check and document

    Each batch is checked against its specification and released with its certificate of analysis and supporting paperwork.

  5. 5

    Deliver

    Product reaches your factory in pack sizes that suit your production run, with follow-up from someone who knows your process.

Quality and food safety

Food grade means documented.

A food manufacturer answers for every ingredient in its product. We supply on that basis.

  • Selected sources

    We buy from producers chosen on specification, consistency and food safety certification.

  • Batch traceability

    Lot numbers are tracked from import, through blending, to the delivery note on your receiving dock.

  • Fixed specifications

    Every blend is made to a written specification agreed with the customer before first supply.

  • Controlled storage

    Clean, dry, segregated warehousing with allergen control in handling and blending.

  • Retained samples

    A sample of each blended batch is kept so any query can be traced and answered.

With every delivery

Certificate of AnalysisPer batch
Product specification sheetPer product
Safety Data SheetPer product

Available on request

  • Halal and Kosher certificates
  • Allergen statement
  • GMO status statement
  • Country of origin

Send us your ingredient list.

We will come back with pricing, availability and a sample plan.

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About Ntura

A food ingredient partner built by people who have run the line.

Ntura was founded by two people who met the same problem from opposite sides: one running production, the other supplying and formulating for it.

About the name. Ntura comes from -ntu, the root for "person" shared by the Nguni, Shona, Sotho and Venda languages. It is a regional name for a regional business.

Our strategy

Be the closest capable supplier to the factory.

Global distributors offer range and laboratories a continent away. We compete on what a manufacturer here feels every week: whether the product is on the ground, whether the blend can change when the recipe does, and whether someone who understands the plant picks up the phone.

Buy direct, hold stock here

We import from producers in volume and warehouse in the region, so supply does not depend on the next vessel.

Blend close to the customer

Custom systems are produced at our warehouse and adjusted locally when a recipe or a process changes.

Carry the full basket

Stabilisers to sweeteners from one supplier, on one order, with one set of paperwork.

Put technical support in the order

Help with ingredient selection, dosage and troubleshooting comes as part of the supply.

Replace five raw materials with one blend

A pre-weighed blend means less to buy, store and dose, fewer weighing errors and more consistent batches.

Document everything

Food grade supply stands on its paperwork. Every batch is traceable and released with its certificate of analysis.

Where we are going

Regional by design.

Built in Zimbabwe to serve southern Africa, with East Africa next.

  • Home base

    ZimbabweHead office, warehouse and blending.

  • Current market

    Southern AfricaSupply to manufacturers across the region.

  • Next market

    East AfricaThe next step in our growth.

Our vision

To be the first call for food manufacturers across Africa when they need an ingredient supplied or a formulation solved.

Our mission

To keep our customers' lines running with reliable supply of food grade ingredients, practical technical support and blends that perform on the factory floor.

The founders

The factory floor and the formulation bench, in one company.

TM

Co-Founder

Tawanda Minya

Tawanda is a mechatronics engineer with a background in FMCG manufacturing at South African Breweries (SAB) and automation experience from his time at BBC and Siemens.

He knows what a production line asks of its suppliers: material that arrives on time, meets specification and behaves the same way in every batch. At Ntura he leads operations, supply chain and the engineering of our warehouse and blending processes.

  • Mechatronics engineer
  • FMCG manufacturing, SAB
  • Automation, BBC and Siemens
MD

Co-Founder

Mehluli Dube

Mehluli has more than a decade of experience in food grade chemical supply and in research and development for flavours, stabilisers and other functional ingredients.

He has spent that time matching ingredients to applications and getting formulations to work in production. At Ntura he leads technical sales, product development and the formulation of our custom blends.

  • 10+ years in food grade chemical supply
  • R&D in flavours and stabilisers
  • Formulation and application support
Between us we have stood on both sides of the purchase order. Ntura is the supplier we wanted to buy from.

Talk to the people who run it.

Send us your ingredient list and we will come back with pricing, availability and a sample plan.

Contact us

Contact

Send us your ingredient list.

We will come back with pricing, availability and a sample plan.

Sales 1 +263 771 816 500
Sales 2 +263 773 494 539
Email sales@ntura.co.zw