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Saccharin—the sweet and sour saga

The focus on saccharin highlights the basic deficiencies in the criteria by which food ingredients are evaluated for safety, particularly when the spector of cancer hangs overhead. The existing evaluation of all aspects of the safety of saccharin has caused an improvement in the safety evaluation proceedings and the benefits have impacted throughout the food industry, its regulators, and the scientific disciplines they rely upon.

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Editor's Note: Mint: Sweet, Pungent & Cool

The power of menthol is used to mask off notes of functional ingredients in oral care products and even develop a sense of confidence; as well as aid in digestion and even create indulgent flavor profiles when paired with other ingredients like chocolate, citrus or tea.

With snacking on the rise, this is the perfect time for flavorists to flex their creative muscles.

Salty, Spicy, Sweet: What’s Next in Snacking

As people snack more, larger consumer behavioral shifts are impacting the snacking space.

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Health & Indulgence in Sweet and Snack Applications

Taste and health concerns drive consumer expectations in the snack space. While sodium and added-sugar concerns continue to grow, consumers do not want to sacrifice taste. Flavors must be more true-to-life than ever—and just as indulgent.

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Sweet, Savory and Sustainable: A New Era of Snacking

As consumers are continuing to switch to better-for-you products, the snack market is meeting the challenge with innovation, functional benefits and flavorful options.

Counter Current Deterpenation of Cold Pressed Sweet Orange Peel Oil

As with all citrus concentrates made by contacting oil with alcohol, the counter current deterpenated orange oil contains acetal compounds formed from the chemical condensation of aldehydes and alcohol. In flavor applications, they tend to have a “smoothing and fixing effect” in product, which is normally considered as advantageous,

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2011's Top 10 Flavor Trends for Beverage, Sweet and Savory Applications

Bell Flavors & Fragrances predicts the big trends in flavors for 2011.

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Natural Sclareol: Bringing depth to woody, balsamic and sweet applications

Indulge in this unique natural ingredient that is sure to excite your taste buds with its aromatic, earthy and spicy nuances. A Sigma-Aldrich® aroma chemical that meets the specifications for Food Grade, Kosher and Halal.

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Natural Sclareol: Bringing depth to woody, balsamic and sweet applications

Indulge in this unique natural ingredient that is sure to excite your taste buds with its aromatic, earthy and spicy nuances. A Sigma-Aldrich® aroma chemical that meets the specifications for Food Grade, Kosher and Halal.

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Enhancing Sweetness: Zemea® USP-FCC Propanediol

Offering reduced bitterness and enhanced sweetness as a carrier or processing aid, Zemea® USP-FCC propanediol is well-suited for food and beverage formulations utilizing natural sugar alternatives.

There is a growing need to reduce sugar content in popular sauces to maintain consumer appeal.

Untapped Potential: Non-artificial Sweeteners in Savory Sauces

Developing low-sugar alternatives that replicate the indulgent sensory experience of their full-sugar counterparts.

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Post-Gourmand: The Future of Sweetness

What is so interesting and exciting from both a creation and marketing point of view about savory gourmand is that it opens up a palette of ideas and kitchen-inspired processes that desserts never go through.

Volatile Release from Mint-Flavored Sweets

In this paper we report results from instrumental analysis of menthol and menthone in the breath of individuals eating a range of mint-flavored sweets. These results demonstrate the reproducibility of breath volatile analysis for assessing the aroma-release characteristics of mint-flavored products.

While there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution for reducing sugar in products, the incorporation of taste modulators is crucial for developing market-leading products.

Next Generation Nature-based High-Intensity Sweeteners & Taste Modulation

Utilizing a creative building block approach creates a winning solution for a brand, and a great-tasting and enjoyable product for the consumer.

Neohesperidin dihydrochalcone: an updated review on a naturally derived sweetener and flavor potentiator

The principal flavonoid ingredient in grapefruit, the all-important flavonoid extractive, naringin, is the key to the successful synthesis and commercialization of NEO-DHC. it is the purpose of this paper to present the similarities and interrelationships between the naturally-occurring dihydrochalcones and neohesperidin dihydrochalcone.

Last Word: Vanilla, Ethics, and Market Drivers

A conversation with Scott May, VP, global sweet goods, Givaudan

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Forward Thinking: Enchanted By Vanilla

Consumers still have a sweet spot for this tried-and-true flavor and fragrance.

Characterization of Italian Citrus Petitgrain Oils

Compositions of Italian industrial bitter orange, lemon and mandarin petitgrain oils, and of laboratory-extracted and commercial samples of sweet orange petitgrain oil, are reported in this paper.

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