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ClearIQ is a natural flavor technology that helps improve taste, enhance mouthfeel, support sugar reduction and clean up challenging flavor profiles without adding unwanted flavor of its own.

Can Mushroom Mycelia Fix the Biggest Taste Problems in Functional Foods? MycoTechnology Explains.

Improving taste, enhancing mouthfeel, supporting sugar reduction and cleaning up challenging flavor profiles is within reach.

Webinar: Understanding GRAS, Navigating the Future of Food Ingredients

Webinar: Understanding GRAS, Navigating the Future of Food Ingredients

Webinar: Understanding GRAS, Navigating the Future of Food Ingredients - Join us for an engaging webinar on GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe), a critical framework for qualifying food ingredients in the USA.

Flavor is now engineered as an integrated, multi-sensory system where taste, mouthfeel, and texture function as a unified matrix.

The New Era of Flavor Leadership

Executives are aggressively redefining how flavor innovation drives commercial value in a volatile market.

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Across the board, consumers are looking for multi-sensorial experiences. So much of life is consumed via screens now that people crave fully engaging, elevated sensory experiences whenever possible. We are not only considering taste, but also texture, mouthfeel, color, aroma and more.

Sensient’s Flavor Playbook for a Rapidly Evolving Food Industry

'Over the past 12 months, Scentium has experienced a particularly strong period of growth, achieving a 22% increase in global turnover,' says Manuel García, global sales director/deputy general manager Scentium. 'This performance was driven by our differentiated service model in priority product categories and territories across emerging markets, as well as by our niche-focused strategy in more mature markets.'

Inside Scentium’s 22% Growth Surge and Global Flavor Expansion

A Look at ABT’s New Materials at FlavourTalk 2026

A Look at ABT’s New Materials at FlavourTalk 2026

'AI and machine learning are deeply integrated across McCormick’s flavor creation process, from consumer insights and sourcing to product development,' says Brendan M. Foley, chairman, president, and chief executive officer, McCormick & Company Inc. 'These digital tools enhance how we engage with customers, enabling faster, insight-driven innovation with greater agility and high-impact in the marketplace.'

McCormick’s Brendan Foley on AI, Heat Culture & the Next Era of Flavor

This year's 'Flavor Leaders & Newsmakers' special issue reveals an industry moving decisively away from simple sensory replication toward the intentional orchestration of complex, multi-dimensional consumption experiences.

The Architecture of Taste 2026: Convergence, Intelligence and Resilience in Global Flavor Design

Emerging forces are fundamentally redefining the corporate agendas, research and development brief structures, and capital expenditure priorities of global taste leaders.

CO₂ Emission Reduction with BASF Aroma Ingredients

CO₂ Emission Reduction with BASF Aroma Ingredients

Explore how fragrance and flavor companies are approaching Scope 3 emissions, improving transparency, and implementing practical sustainability strategies without compromising performance.

As consumer expectations continue to evolve and markets become more complex, the future of flavor innovation at dsm firmenich will be shaped by the ability to leverage deep consumer understanding to guide advanced science, digitalization, and biotechnology to deliver no compromise solutions in collaboration with our customers and their brands.

dsm-firmenich Taps Science, AI and Biotech to Redefine the Future of Flavor

Overall, our ambition is to help bring progress to life by addressing some of the food system’s most pressing challenges.

'In an era where both breakthrough innovation and thoughtful reformulation are critical, we are positioning ADM’s flavors business as a partner of choice for regional and global brands alike,' says Calvin McEvoy, president, global flavors, ADM.

ADM Doubles Down on Natural Flavors Growth With Billion-Dollar Momentum and Global Expansion

Sales in Taste & Wellbeing amounted to CHF 3,642 million, an increase of 2.4% and a decrease of 2.9% in Swiss francs. From a product segment perspective, growth was broad‑based across snacks, dairy, and sweet.

Givaudan Pursues Innovation as GLP-1 Nutrition, Biotech and AI Reshape the Flavor Business

FEMA# 5044 sakura flower extract (Prunus serrulata flower extract; Cerasus serrulata flower extract) is among the materials included in FEMA's Interim GRAS 32 list.

Catching Up: FEMA's Interim GRAS 32 and Interim GRAS 33 Flavoring Substance Lists

The FEMA GRAS program serves as an important scientific resource for flavor manufacturers, food companies and regulators by providing independent expert evaluations of flavoring substances based on publicly available safety data.

The new facility dramatically expands the company's geographic footprint, allowing more than 85% of the U.S. population to be reached within two business days.

Custom Flavors Opens East Coast Manufacturing Hub, Expanding US Flavor Production Capacity

The investment represents phase 1 of a broader multi-stage expansion designed to increase production capacity, shorten lead times and strengthen customer support.

The first phase of the expansion includes an increase in warehousing capacity and operational efficiency, enabling faster customer response and future growth, per the company.

Edlong Invests $10M to Expand Dairy Taste Innovation Hub in Illinois

"This investment aligns with our mission to enrich the lives of those we touch through agility and technical solutions that solve challenges others simply cannot."

The system demonstrates how generative modeling can reconstruct complex, multi-ingredient taste signatures, including fast-food–style flavor profiles such as a Big Mac–like sensory signature, where layered notes from fat, salt, umami, acid, and aroma compounds are algorithmically approximated rather than manually reverse-engineered.

AI Flavor Platform Maps Taste Science ... and Recreates a Big Mac

AI can now operate at two levels simultaneously: decoding the sensory architecture of flavor and optimizing it toward higher predicted consumer “liking."

SIMPPAR 2026 served as a platform for new and notable fragrance materials.

SIMPPAR 2026: The Ingredients Shaping Fragrance’s Next Chapter

Fruity captives, next-generation musks, essential oil blends and more stole the show in the south of France.

SIMPPAR transformed the heart of Grasse into an open-air celebration of perfumery ingredients, welcoming fragrance professionals from around the world to explore new naturals, captives and technological advances against the backdrop of the industry’s historic capital.

Editor's Notebook: The Flavor & Fragrance Ingredients Seen at SIMPPAR and FlavourTalk 2026

From unique citrus to woody notes and beyond, recent events featured ingredients for every occasion.

Derived from the wood of Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa), Seikodo Ishida Co., Ltd.’s hinoki oil is a distinctive natural ingredient that combines a fresh coniferous character with warm woody depth and strong sustainability credentials.

From Sacred Cypress to Barrel-Aged Oak: Woody Ingredients Branch Out Across Flavor and Fragrance

From Japanese hinoki oil to elevated cedarwood, ingredients are bringing depth to flavors and fragrances.