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Section: Flavor > Ingredients

In this month’s column, we evaluate ingredients from Van Aroma, a company founded in 2006 and based in Bogor in Indonesia, specialized in essential oils and other natural extracts.

Flavor Reports: British Society of Flavourists Inaugural Column

This month’s column features odor and taste notes on ingredients such as patchouli terpenes, dihydroeugenol and more.

Optimizing Vanilla Sourcing

How ethical sourcing practices can optimize cultivation, curing and the business of vanilla for growers and suppliers

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Natural Source Testing for Flavors and Fragrances

In highly regulated marketplaces where mislabeling could have legal and commercial repercussions, a reliable natural source test is critical at the procurement, research and development, product launch and supply stages.

Naarden-Chiris--an expanded raw material source

The very interesting and unique combination of a strong historical position in aroma chemicals together with a very old and top quality processor of natural materials gives the Naarden organization an unparalleled range of products to use internally, as well as to market to the worldwide industry.

Natural Products and Their Sources

Our subject is the future supplies of natural raw materials for the essential oil industry. We might divide these raw materials roughly into three groups: 1) those that serve as raw materials in the production of isolates, competing head-on with synthetics and including citronella, lemongrass, menthol, and clove leaf; 2) those that can be replaced by synthetic oils, such as anis, rose, fir needle, geranium, citrus oils, sandalwood mint oils, and floral extractives; 3) those that are not threatened by replacements–at least for the present– including cedarwood, eucalyptus, guaiaewood, lavandin, ocotea, petitgrain, patchouli, vetivert, and ylang.

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Endpoint. Defending Nature’s F&F Sources

In some cases, Mother Nature’s materials can be artificially reconstructed. In others—well, as they say, there’s no substitute for the real thing. What happens when natural sources are threatened? Science goes on the defense.

Vanilla flavor is dominated by phenols and their transformation products mostly derived from enzymatic hydrolysis of the phenyl-β-D-glucosides. Cocoa bean flavor is dominated by Strecker aldehydes and pyrazines and other products generated during the roasting process of the beans.

Extracting the Essence: Comparing Vanilla and Cocoa Processes

Understanding the similarities and differences in biochemistry, chemistry and curing processes of vanilla and cocoa may offer insight into producing high-quality materials.

The Chemical Sources Association—The Pioneers

Currently, the membership list of the CSA totals over sixty companies and reads like a “Who’s Who” of the flavor, food and chemical industries. Much credit must be given to those early founders who had the foresight to fulfill a critical need.

Fair Trade Sourcing: Organic Mint

Servicing the triple bottom line by benefiting farmers, consumers and manufacturers.

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The Essence of Good RTD Tea: It’s All About the Flavor

Due to its convenience in its RTD form, as well as its natural ingredients and health benefits, tea’s growth is driving the beverage category.

*A portion of this report was published from the International Federation of Essential Oils and Aroma Trades (IFEAT) socioeconomic report.

Jasmine: An Overview of its Essential Oils & Sources

The authors take a closer look at the socioeconomic impact of jasmine oil production on the livelihoods of farming communities in Egypt and India.

Ingredient Roundup: Chemical Sources Association Roundtable

A sampling of ingredients presented by suppliers

Kesom Oil—A Natural Source of Aliphatic Aldehydes

The recent investigation of the plant habitats and the chemical analysis of the essential oils obtained from the leaves and stems provided some new findings that could prove highly useful to the flavour and fragrance industry. In this report the habitats of Polygonum minus Huds. and the chemical composition of leaf and stem oils are presented, and the possible relevance of Kesom oil as a new product is discussed.

Processing and Biotechnology as a Source of Flavors

There are compelling reasons for growth and development in the area of process flavor and biotechnologically developed flavor. The industry looks upon these technologies as allowing for the creation of more natural components with, in general, a wider dynamic range of use.

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Leaping Forward: Sourcing the Ingredients of the Future

How do we continue to innovate towards the most sustainable, best quality, lowest impact, least wasteful and most desirable ingredients and products? Professionals weigh in.

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Generations of expertise in every drop: Citrus and Allied Essences Reimagined

85 years young - Citrus and Allied refocuses its business to stay ahead of the times. Read our president Richard Pisano Jr's insights on our company’s journey.

Turpentine as a source of perfume and flavor materials

Only in the past few decades has the chemical industry begun to recognize turpentine as a wonderfully versatile raw material for enhancing product salability, and sometimes adding expensive and exotic effects. At present, chemical uses consume about ten times as much turpentine as all other uses combined.

Natural Aroma Chemicals for Oranges and Other Botanical Sources

In this article, I will focus on the production of aroma chemicals from orange. But I will also mention other essential oils that are sources of aroma chemicals.

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