Just in time for warmer weather, Gold Coast Ingredients is offering creative new flavor combinations for summertime tastes and treats.

Food and beverage processors face profound disruption from changing consumer and customer needs. For starters, consumers are voicing more environmental concerns and they are shifting to more mindful and planet-friendly diets. Likewise, they are gravitating toward more nutritious food choices to achieve personal wellbeing goals.

Bell Flavors & Fragrances said its Northbrook, Ill., location completed an audit of its expanded range of USDA certified organic flavors. The audit was conducted in partnership with Quality Assurance International (QAI).

Florida Food Products (FFP) showcased several new beverage concepts during the 2022 Beverage Forum on April 28-29 in Chicago. FFP’s tabletop included sample several exciting flavor creations developed by the FFP team of formulation experts and learn more.

Florida Food Products (FFP), a leading innovator, formulator and producer of vegetable and fruit-based clean label ingredient solutions and flavors, is launching a new collection of cocoa flavors during the 75th Annual Professional Manufacturing Confectioners Association (PMCA) in Lancaster, Pa., April 11-13, 2022. Attendees to the Diamond Anniversary PMCA Conference are invited to visit booth #51 to learn more about FFP’s new collection of cocoa flavors. 

For more than a century, T. Hasegawa has made “Life Taste Better” through custom flavors and fragrances developed for the world’s top food and beverage brands.

Benefiting from its refreshing character and better-for-you positioning, citrus-based flavors are a top consumer taste preference and will be a driving force of market-leading innovation in the years ahead. More complex and exciting citrus flavor profiles will continue to evolve as new products embrace in-demand flavors with exotic flavors yuzu, key lime, and blood orange growing in launches. 

That cherry flavor you enjoy in candy and soda is likely a combination of aromatic and flavor compounds discovered through the study of plants in laboratories far from cherry trees. It and the sweet scent of your almond extract may actually be courtesy of a petunia flower.

New potato chips products continue to enter the market at a rapid pace. Dozens were introduced at Natural Products Expo West in early March.