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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”

Nostalgic taste of vanilla shines as perennial favorite

When you ask someone to name their favorite flavor, you’re going to hear vanilla quite a bit. Despite it being so familiar, vanilla is an incredibly complex ingredient. Beverage Industry recently featured our Marketing & Consumer Insights Manager Philip Caputo in an article on this very topic! “The growers we work with understand that deliveringContinue reading “Nostalgic taste of vanilla shines as perennial favorite”

Coffee and Tea Extracts and Ingredients: Additives Consumers Trust

Coffee and tea continue to rapidly grow in popularity. Despite being enjoyed for centuries, both categories continue to be exciting sources of innovation. Virginia Dare has long been a leader in premium coffee and tea extracts, and was recently featured in a Food Processing article on new trends in this space. Please read the fullContinue reading “Coffee and Tea Extracts and Ingredients: Additives Consumers Trust”

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”

Chocolate offers range of sustainability options for consumers

Who doesn’t love chocolate? Who doesn’t love sustainability? Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery featured both in a recent article that featured Virginia Dare’s portfolio of extracts and flavors, which include: Chocolate flavors, from milk chocolate to chocolate pudding and hot fudge, classic chocolate flavors that consumers know and recognize Chocolate flavor keys, custom flavor systems,Continue reading “Chocolate offers range of sustainability options for consumers”

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”

5 Things You May Not Have Known About Plant-Based Formulations

Virginia Dare’s Marketing & Consumer Insights Manager Philip Caputo was recently featured in a Food Processing Q&A on the plant-based trend. Within the piece, we discuss the common misconceptions in this categories, barriers formulators may face (and how to overcome them), and what’s in store for this category in the future. You can read theContinue reading “5 Things You May Not Have Known About Plant-Based Formulations”

Taste profiles continue to improve for natural sweeteners

Natural sweeteners are all the rage in the beverage category, as consumers pressure brands to remove sugar for their application while maintaining great taste. Beverage Industry wrote an article on this trend, featuring our Marketing & Consumer Insights Manager Philip Caputo. “Natural and zero-calorie sweeteners achieve the goal of reducing sugar content in applications butContinue reading “Taste profiles continue to improve for natural sweeteners”