In response to consumers’ continually changing behavior, Comax Flavors introduces the 2022 Flavor Trends divided into four different flavor collections. Pizza Pizzazz caters to consumers’ love for pizza while Get Grillin’ addresses consumers’ interest in BBQ flavors. Trust Your Gut taps into consumers’ digestive health journey while Sweet Decadence spotlights consumers’ retreat to comforting sweets. Each Comax Flavor collection is comprised of a variety of food and beverage applications.

With colder months rapidly approaching, consumers are gravitating toward hot drink options. This year, however, pumpkin spice lattes and peppermint mochas are shifting to the backburner. Instead, shoppers have a growing interest in emerging global flavors, bolder and spicier options, and functional ingredients that can address personalized wellness needs.

Flavor Producers LLC celebrated its 40th anniversary at this year’s SupplySide West event and used the exhibition to highlight four concepts that reflect its Transparently Delicious® theme to naturally and transparently deliver great taste.

Butter Buds Inc., a global leader in dairy and non-dairy concentrates, offers several solutions to help manufacturers overcome common formulation challenges associated with using pea protein in meat/meat alternative applications. Butter Buds ingredients help improve both the flavor and texture of pea-protein products for great-tasting, clean label foods. 

Cereal milk. Rainbow sherbet. Gummy bears. They’re the flavors that defined many of our childhoods, and they’re the flavors that Virginia Dare is featuring at this year’s SupplySide West trade show.

To attain the coveted clean-label designation, today’s “flavor helpers”—the secondary ingredients needed to mask or block a bitter aftertaste or to enhance a desired flavor (which in turn can mask off notes)—need to be derived from natural ingredients and contain no traces of solvents or similar chemicals.

The new collection upgrades the most important meal of the day with new, and on-trend takes on familiar favorites. From an energizing pancake seasoning to introducing a spicy flair to cereal—these seasonings will elevate the breakfast experience and delight consumers’ taste buds.