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Map of the Flavor World

Spicy and exotic flavors are trending in the flavor market, drawing inspiration from across the globe. Read more for details on the spices leading today's industry.

The latest holiday flavor launches include products from Dunkin' Donuts, Purely Inspired, Nestlé and more.

[Update] Latest Holiday Flavor Launches

The latest holiday flavor launches include products from Dunkin' Donuts, Purely Inspired, Nestlé and more.

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Spice Notes in Perfumery

It can be said in a general sense that anything we add for flavor or fragrance value could be construed as a spice. This study examines many of the more common spices that one would find on a good supermarket spice rack as well as some that are relatively obscure.

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Pumpkin Spice Magic

America’s obsession with pumpkin spice has long been explained as clever marketing and nostalgia, but what if there’s something deeper at work?

Chemotaxonomy of spice plants

The use of systematic chemistry for plant classification is called chemosystematics or chemotaxonomy. The meaningful interpretation of the totality of taxonomoic characters is a difficult task. However, it has contributed much to natural classification.

Spices: quality control and standards

Opening Pandora's box is always a surprise. Some of Pandora's surprises by their very nature, have been shown to be highly interesting problems. The cooperation of science with the flavor trade and industry may lead to their solution. Let us hope this will be to the satisfaction of everyone involved.

Industry Information: Spices

On January 3 and 4, 1980, the Phytochemical Society of Europe presented an international symposium on spices. The program contained the following presentations:

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The Spice Trail: Nutmeg

Origins, cultivation and processing. Nutmeg and its sister spice, mace, come from the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans). This evergreen tree is native to the Molucca (or Banda) Islands in East Indonesia — known as the “Spice Islands” — and elsewhere in Indonesia.

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The Spice Trail: Garlic

Garlic is a fundamental ingredient in international cuisine. With its characteristic pungent, spicy flavor that mellows and sweetens when cooked, garlic adds a distinctive aroma to a variety of dishes. It is also thought to have a number of medicinal properties.

The History, Use and Pharmacology of Spices

This paper discusses a traditional category of those "cosmetics," the spices and herbs--broadly called "spices"--and some of their aspects.

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Mane Spices Up Savory Applications

Mane has noticed a couple setbacks when it comes to spices in savory applications. For this reason, the company came up with a solution to use in savory meat and snack applications.

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Following the Spice Trail: Ginger

Ginger is one of the world’s most popular spices. Its usage is wide and varied, ranging from a culinary flavoring for both sweet and savory foods and beverages to a medicinal agent for numerous ailments. Here, Daemmon Reeve of Treatt plc examines the origins, cultivation and usage of this odd, knobby plant* and reviews its role as an essential oil for the flavor and fragrance industry.

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Patent Pick: Spice Up Saltiness of Laver Seaweed

Patent Picks are chosen by the editors from publicly available sources. Today's technology, from Fuji Oil Holdings, is a composition to enhance the salty taste of dried laver seaweed sheets.

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McCormick Spices It Up With Global Headquarters Opening

Features include test kitchens for product development and flavor innovation; onsite culinary education; and a variety of workspaces, huddle rooms, think tanks and collaboration spaces.

Herbs and spices in medicinal preparations

Herbs and spices have numerous uses beyond their value as food additives. This paper is intended to survey one of those less known applications; the use of herbs and spices in a number of selected medicinal preparations.

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Kalsec Spices up Support to Customers with New Lab

Kalsec's new lab will focus on natural herbs and spices products and supplies. The company will provide scientific measures of changes in their food products over set periods of time.

The herb and spice trade— What is it all about?

In consuming countries, there is a growing demand for savoury food products. Consumption in all developed countries is increasing and as standards rise, underdeveloped nations show the same trend.

Spices -- a review of problems and challenges

This paper will review present and future technical problems in the use of spices, and indicate areas in which there is a need for new research and development studies. It is written from the viewpoint of a member of staff of the Tropical Products Institute, which has two roles to play in the field of spices. Firstly, the Institute has a responsibility to assist the less developed countries to reap the maximum benefit from their renewable natural resources. Secondly, it attempts to assist importers and consumers on problems of continuity of supply and quality of raw material. I will, therefore, be paying particular attention to the problems of primary production.

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