Heat-triggered Flavors Target Teas -- February 2007
Flavor Dynamics’ new line of flavors for hot tea, Flavorcoat®, pays particular attention to flavor release timing in order to impart authentic, fresh profiles to flavored tea. Flavorcoat
flavors rely on a new water-soluble and heat-triggered release system to deliver the products’ various flavor nuances at just the right moment during steeping. This creates a truer-flavored cup of tea that is delivered with better consistency, quality and taste than what is possible through traditional flavoring methods.
Protects Flavor Until the End
Flavorcoat products were specifically created to be very “flavor friendly.” The line’s primary goal is to ensure that the original vision created by a food technologist for a tea ideation translates as seamlessly as possible to the final market product. Unlike other processes, Flavorcoat’s fresh fruit and spice flavors resist losing the light volatiles that are so vital to quality flavored tea. “For example,” explains Flavorcoat product manager Joseph Callari, “take our Natural Flavorcoat Lemon
Ginger Flavor. By encapsulating the volatile elements in a matrix that is triggered in water at standard steeping temperature, the product’s light, peppery ginger and subtle green citrus notes are not released until the tea is actively steeping in the pot. Since these notes would
normally erode relatively quickly, their release at this vital stage ensures that the tea’s taste characteristics will be shaped by these lighter elements and therefore the final product will impart a truer—and higher impact—flavor profile.”