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How to naturally erase off-flavors in baked foods

Baking Business recently featured Virginia Dare on an article about overcoming off-tastes in baked goods. Whether working to delivered preferred taste in high-protein, reduced-sugar, or plant-based baked goods, your solutions is often tailor-made for your product. You can read the full article here, and please get in touch if we can help with your next plant-based product innovation!

Lemonade Stand: A taste collection to squeeze

Adored for its fresh citrus taste, sour-sweet profile, and childhood nostalgia, lemonade is the beverage to squeeze for flavor innovation. It’s the perfect platform for highlighting unique and exotic flavors like botanicals or tropical fruit. It’s ever-evolving, a hybrid hotspot, the darling of seasonal LTOs, a kid-friendly favorite, the sweetheart of sour—a MAGICAL profile that works everywhere! Fun-flavored RTD andContinue reading “Lemonade Stand: A taste collection to squeeze”

WEBINAR: Forever Young: How nostalgic, comforting flavor profiles can make your next innovative product memorable

An extension of the nostalgic trend of the past decade, childhood favorites and child-adulthood hybrids are associated with happiness, positive taste memories, and childhood bliss. From fruity cereal milk to gummy bear to rainbow sherbert, we have a portfolio to please the inner child. Whether for a performance nutrition product, a delicious beverage, or beyond,Continue reading “WEBINAR: Forever Young: How nostalgic, comforting flavor profiles can make your next innovative product memorable”

WHITE PAPER: Overcoming Flavor Challenges in Performance Nutrition

Sports nutrition brands face three primary product development challenges: 1) selecting ingredients that effectively enhance athletes’ performance and recovery 2) offering distinctive, compelling products that stand out among an over-abundance of choices and 3) delivering a delicious, satisfying experience that will inspire repeat purchase. Success in this category depends not only on understanding how trendingContinue reading “WHITE PAPER: Overcoming Flavor Challenges in Performance Nutrition”

When enhancing the flavor, enhance your label, too

Clean label and great taste can live in harmony. Food Processing featured some ways that brands can achieve this balance in a recent article, highlighting our Taste Improvement platform. “We improve taste with customizable, integrated taste refinement systems for masking and modulation,” Virginia Dare is quoted in the article. “Masking systems selectively mask off-tastes andContinue reading “When enhancing the flavor, enhance your label, too”

Find inspiration with our 2020 flavor trends

The consumer love affair with trying novel flavors is still going strong into 2020 as demand for taste innovation continues to grow. According to the recent Technomic US Flavor Consumer Trend Report, 66 percent of consumers like trying new flavors, while close to 40 percent define “new” as simply a twist on the familiar. We’veContinue reading “Find inspiration with our 2020 flavor trends”

WHITE PAPER: Vanilla Expertise

The key to successful formulation with natural vanilla is to partner with a market expert, mastering best industry practices, offering unparalleled technical competency, and having unique insights into the complex realities of vanilla bean-producing countries. The rich flavor from vanilla extract is one of the world’s favorites, and Virginia Dare is its preferred supplier –Continue reading “WHITE PAPER: Vanilla Expertise”

Find inspiration with our 2020 flavor trends

The consumer love affair with trying novel flavors is still going strong into 2020 as demand for taste innovation continues to grow. According to the recent Technomic US Flavor Consumer Trend Report, 66 percent of consumers like trying new flavors, while close to 40 percent define “new” as simply a twist on the familiar. We’veContinue reading “Find inspiration with our 2020 flavor trends”

Taste solutions fit for any lifestyle

Lifestyle nutrition is a major trend that has moved beyond niche health and wellness audiences like athletes and bodybuilders to attract a growing number of people in the mainstream consumer market. In just the last few years, we have seen the significant rise in consumers adopting specialized eating habits like keto, paleo, and vegan diets.Continue reading “Taste solutions fit for any lifestyle”

WHITE PAPER: Beyond the Bar

The snacking trend has grown steadily over the past decade and shows no signs of slowing down in 2020. Driven primarily by health and wellness snacking, consumers are increasingly prioritizing snack applications that merge convenience and nutrition, such as dried fruit, nut packs, and fruit cups. Read our white paper to learn more about specificContinue reading “WHITE PAPER: Beyond the Bar”