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The Beverage Perception Gap Guide
Find inspiration for your next food or beverage innovation and get formulation tips in a guide from FlavorSum.
How to Improve Flavor in High Protein Foods and Drinks
Learn why adding protein changes taste, and how formulators can meet expectations for high protein foods and drinks.
Sports Nutrition Infographic
Find inspiration for your next food or beverage innovation and get formulation tips in a guide from FlavorSum.
WEBCAST: Designing Beverage Experiences – Aligning Clarity, Cloud, and Flavor Impact
Discover how clarity, cloud, color, and flavor work together to shape beverage perception in this FlavorScience webcast.
Making Waves on the West Coast: FlavorSum Welcomes S&S Flavors
FlavorSum, a North American flavor producer, welcomes S&S Flavors, a respected developer and manufacturer of custom flavor systems with nearly a century of expertise.
Innovation Investigation: Functional Beverages Level Up to Satisfy Evolving Needs
Let’s explore the current functional beverage landscape and trends affecting new launches so you can innovate to deliver exceptional tastes.
A Fresh Splash in Beverages: FlavorSum Adds Beverage Flavors International
FlavorSum, a North American flavor producer, welcomes Beverage Flavors International (BFI), a U.S.-based manufacturer of proprietary beverage flavor bases and sweetener solutions.
How Ingredient Sourcing Shapes Reformulation and Product Quality
Ingredient sourcing changes in 2026 can create unexpected reformulation and product consistency challenges. Plan for them earlier.
Using Flavor Systems to Improve Taste Across Temperature and Texture
Learn how flavor systems improve taste across temperature and texture, supporting sweetness, enhancing mouthfeel, and maintaining balance across formats.
Blurring the Lines: How Cocktail Flavors are Shaking Up Beverage Innovation
Mocktails are shifting from substitutes to catalysts for flavor innovation. Learn how cocktail flavors can shape beverage innovation.
Innovation Investigation: The Energizing Evolution of Clean Caffeine
Explore the evolution of caffeinated drinks and the rise of clean caffeine in energy drinks, coffee, tea, and more.
Innovation Investigation: What’s Bubbling Up in Non-Alcoholic Fermented Beverages
Get innovation insights about non-alcoholic fermented beverages like kombucha, kefir, kvass, and tepache that are shaking up the status quo.
WEBCAST: Create, Sip, Innovate: How to Use Flavors for Rapid Refreshing Beverage Innovation | FlavorSum
Discover how combination flavors are generating excitement and speeding innovation in refreshing beverage segments.
Innovation Investigation: What’s On the Horizon for Refreshing Beverages
Discover the coolest refreshing beverage trends in North America and how to deliver flavor and function that align with shoppers’ needs.
Dialing in a Winning Flavor: Guidelines for Food & Beverage Developers Ordering Flavor Samples
Discover how to receive the right flavor samples for your food and beverage projects by following these guidelines.
FlavorScience Episode 7: Functional Beverage
In the seventh installment of the FlavorScience series, Flavor Development Manager, Pete Sauer, creates a strawberry white tea functional beverage with caffeine.
WEBCAST: What’s the Next “Cool” Trend in Refreshing Beverages: Part 2
How can beverage brands align with evolving needs for functionalities and flavors? In Part 2 of our two-part webcast series about refreshing beverages, FlavorSum Director of Marketing, Lisa Jackson shares proprietary insights about North American beverage drinkers.
WEBCAST: What’s the Next “Cool” Trend in Refreshing Beverages
Join FlavorSum Director of Marketing, Lisa Jackson as she shares refreshing beverage trends. Our webcast reveals the growing subsegments and functional claims to help inspire your product development journey!
Innovation Evolution: How New Food & Beverage Trends are Unfolding in 2023
Discover how 2023 food and beverage trends are shaping up in popular categories like dairy, bakery, beverage, alcohol, and confections.
FlavorScience Episode 4: Non-Alcoholic Beverages
FlavorSum Director of Marketing, Lisa Jackson sits down with Brewing Industry Consultant, Stephen Rich and FlavorSum Senior Applications Scientist, Blake Lyon to explore the alcohol-free beverage development process, taste, and drinking experience expectations!
Webcast: Free from Alcohol, Full of Flavor
With the alcohol-free market rapidly growing and gaining popularity, we set out to explore what people are looking for from the emerging beverage type.
Free From Alcohol, Full of Flavor
The alcohol-free trend is picking up pace, and formulators are investigating ways to create delicious products that mimic their alcohol-full counterparts.
Achieving Success in Functional Beverages (Video)
Let’s explore functional beverage trends and how thinking through your goals and formulating process can set you up for a successful launch!
FlavorScience Episode 3: Functional Beverages (Video)
This video explores how to successfully formulate functional beverages and explores the challenges that can arise during the product development process.
Webcast: Bubbling Up Success in Functional Beverages
With increased consumer focus on wellness, we set out to review the functional beverage market. Discover what’s driving growth in our latest webcast.
Innovation Evolution: What’s Trending in Functional Beverages
Discover the latest consumer and market trends in refreshing functional beverages to inspire your new product development.
Interview: Achieving Formulating Success in Functional Beverages
Functional beverage innovation continues at a rapid pace to meet consumer needs. Learn how to optimize your product with solutions from FlavorSum.
What’s New in RTD Alcoholic Beverages?
Let’s explore what’s driving growth in the RTD alcoholic beverage space, including premiumization, health and wellness trends, and flavor innovation.
How Beverage Innovation is Responding to Evolving Consumer Needs
The FlavorSum team identifies growth opportunities in several beverage segments by exploring the market, consumer, and flavor trends.
Finding the Right Flavor Solution for Your Plant-based Beverage
When developing plant-based beverages, your objectives and the base you choose drive flavor selection and can carry formulation challenges.