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Dairy Flavor Formulation

The volatility of dairy commodities is an issue for food manufacturers because their costs are continuously changing, becoming more expensive from increased global demands and various other factors.

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Flavor Formulation: My Top Seven Dairy Materials

A chief flavorist shares her favorite raw materials for use in dairy formulations. Flavorists all have materials they’ve grown fond of and use time and again in their flavor formulations. In this little article, I will share some of my preferred materials for dairy flavors and the reasons I use them.

Flavor Bites: 4-(Methylthio)butan-1-ol in Savory, Berry, Tropical Fruit, Dairy, and Other Flavors

Learn about the diverse range of applications for 4-(methylthio)butan-1-ol.

Maple flavors cover a multitude of sins and acetoin works well in all of them. Wright recommends using around 200 ppm.

Acetoin in Dairy, Fruit, Savory, Brown and Alcoholic Flavors

Dairy flavors are the most obvious focus, but acetoin plays an important role in virtually every flavor category.

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Dairy Flavors: New Formulations for New Challenges

Flavorists Cindy Cosmos and Cristalle Keane discuss probiotics and other formulation challenges, floral flavors, prohibited ingredients, cost pressures, and more.

In the brown flavor category the cost issues of dairy resurface in a more moderate form—1,000 ppm level is also great in caramel and toffee profiles.

delta-Dodecalactone in Dairy, Fruit, Savory, Brown & Other Flavors

John Wright shares how delta-dodecalactone is more versatile than a flavorist may expect.

iso-Valeric acid makes a subtle, but very useful, contribution to hazelnut flavors at 100 ppm.

iso-Valeric Acid in Dairy, Brown, Nut, Savory, Alcoholic Drink & Fruit Flavors

The profile of iso-valeric is very much stereotypical of the primary cheese odor, without any hint of the faint goaty character that starts to creep into the series of aliphatic acids from six carbon atoms upwards.

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The Market for Dairy Flavors

Health and indulgence are driving growth in the $481-billion global dairy products market, representing a significant opportunity for manufacturers and suppliers of flavors.

Diluted many, many times, allyl isothiocyanate adds a lovely tang to sushi or roast beef.

Allyl Isothiocyanate in Savory, Seafood and Dairy Flavors

At even lower levels, allyl isothiocyanate can brighten a wide range of fairly unrelated flavors.

One thousand ppm is ideal in most flavors but, cost permitting, 2,000 ppm is even more effective in wild strawberry profiles.

gamma-Dodecalactone in Orchard, Tropical, Berry and Dairy flavors

gamma-Dodecalactone adds a very realistic depth of taste when used as a junior partner to gamma-decalactone.

2-Heptanone has a similar, but even more powerful, blue cheese note than 2-nonanone.

2-Heptanone in Dairy, Fruit, Savory and Brown Flavors

2-Heptanone features front and center in blue cheese flavors, but it also makes a positive contribution in a veritable smorgasbord of other profiles.

Fried onion flavors are similar to fried garlic flavors, but a little more restrained. One hundred ppm works well.

trans-2-Dodecenal in Savory, Citrus, Fruit, Dairy & Other Flavors

A jack of all trades, trans-2-dodecenal works in a number of roles by itself as well as with a partner.

Butyric Acid in Dairy, Fruit, Savory, Brown and Other Flavors

Despite this pungent profile, butyric acid is capable of working in a very wide range of flavors.

In beer flavors, the ideal levels are a little surprising. Light, lager-style, beers can benefit from around 300 ppm, but dark beers work best with lower levels, around 100 ppm.

Decanoic Acid in Dairy, Savory, Fermented, Fruit and Other Flavors

Decanoic acid is pretty much an essential component of dairy flavors, but it can also enhance many other categories.

Truffle flavors are all too often very simplistic. This ingredient, at 100 ppm, adds welcome complexity.

Pentane-2,3-dione in Savory, Brown, Dairy, Fruit & Other Flavors

This characteristic can be advantageous in savory and brown flavors, see for yourself.

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Flavor Bites: Anisyl Alcohol

Found naturally in Tahitian vanilla beans, the ingredient is an interesting floral note that can be used in a variety of brown, fruit and dairy flavor applications.

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Trend Update: The Dairy Landscape

A multi-year look at flavor trajectories across categories. According to numbers recently released by Mintel Custom Solutions, total US dairy new product launches went from 1,053 in 2002 to 1,544 in 2006 (T-1). Categories on the move during this period included frozen novelties/impulse ice cream, 145–286 new product launches; drinkable yogurts and liquid cultured milk, 28–61 new product launches; and spoonable yogurts, 90–140 new product launches.

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Newest Manufactured Product Propyl Levulinate

With applications in baked goods, beverages and frozen dairy products our high-quality propyl levulinate is manufactured to give your next formulation a pleasantly sweet caramellic flavor.

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