1 Liquid Flavors
When it comes to
liquid beverages, liquid flavoring is your friend.
Water-Soluble
Flavors
Water-soluble
flavors are ideal for most beverage applications. This may sound obvious, but
it’s important to note that every product on the market is built for a specific
purpose. Water-based products including Alcohol, RTD Protein drinks, isotonics,
and carbonated beverages require water-soluble ingredients.
Oil-Soluble Flavors
Oil-soluble
flavors are better suited for sauces, candies, ice cream, tinctures, and nut
butters.
Liquid flavoring
is fantastic if you seek a simple flavor manufacturing process that requires
only a few steps and little equipment. But, this process has drawbacks—liquids
are heavy, difficult to transport, and generally have a shorter shelf life than
their powdered counterparts.
2 Powdered Flavors
Spray-Dried
Flavor
Flavorists produce
most powdered flavors by a process called spray drying.
In this process,
an emulsion made up of liquid flavor, water, and a carrier is fed through an
atomizer, which disperses the mixture via controlled droplets, which are then
heated/dried by hot gas. As the mixture cools, the desired flavors are locked
into their final powdered form.
There are
fantastic benefits of spray-dried or encapsulated flavors—they hold flavor
impeccably, have a long shelf life, and are wildly scalable.
The only drawback
of spray-dried flavors is that they have long lead times.
Plated Flavor
Another powder
flavor technology is plated flavors. Contrary to a spray dry flavor, where it
is encapsulated and protected from the environment, plated flavors express
their characteristic in dry form. In this form, the flavor is on the outside
surface of the particle instead of encapsulated.
The primary
benefit of plated flavor lies in cost-effectiveness and smaller minimum order;
this is the least expensive method of flavor manufacturing. However, the
consumer gets a better first impression based on the olfactory sensation of
opening the box and smelling the flavor right away.
The best trick is a combination of both plated and spray dry
flavors. This combo gives the immediate sense of great olfactory smell while
still delivering the great taste of encapsulation as the formulation meets
water.
(Source : Internet)
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