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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.
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.
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.
WEBCAST: Solving the Reduced Sugar Challenge – Optimizing Taste in Lower Sugar Formulations
Learn how to optimize taste in reduced sugar formulas. Explore insights on trends, expectations, and how flavor systems help close the gap.
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.
Flavor Modulation: Helping Products Taste Clear, Balanced, and Complete
Flavor modulation improves taste clarity, balance, and continuity. Learn how it shapes perception and supports reduced sugar and functional products.
Formulation in Focus: Achieving Color and Flavor Harmony with Natural Colors
Learn how to overcome challenges with natural colors in food & beverages. Explore stability tips, flavor solutions, and color–flavor harmony.
Infusing Function and Flavor into Fortified Gummies
Explore trending flavors and functionalities in fortified gummies and learn how to formulate with ingredients that align with shopper health and wellness goals.
How to Surf Flavor Trends and Stay Ahead of the Swell in Food and Beverage Innovation
Learn about the flavor trends and curated food and beverage insights you can get from FlavorSum by signing up for FlavorSum Discover.
Unveiling Solutions: Grand Openings of FlavorSum’s Michigan Expansion and New Jersey Innovation Center
FlavorSum welcomed stakeholders to a grand opening of their 35,000-square-foot expansion in Kalamazoo, MI, and celebrated the addition of a 10,000-square-foot Innovation Center in Marlton, NJ.
Bakery Emulsions: A Masterful Ingredient for Formulation Success
Learn about bakery emulsions from flavorists and applications experts and how the flavor system supports baked goods development.
Introducing FlavorSum Modulate: Flavor Masking Solutions for Functional Foods and Drinks
FlavorSum Modulate provides food and beverage formulators with flavor masking solutions to tackle off notes from functional ingredients.
What to Expect From A Flavor Company: The Benefits of a FlavorSum Partnership
FlavorSum examines what you should expect from a flavor company and how they support food and beverage innovation.
WEBCAST: Conquering Cultured Dairy Flavor Challenges
Discover how you can create cultured dairy formulas that deliver the format, functionality, and flavor people expect from yogurt.
The Sensory Language of Flavor: How it Helps Food and Beverage Development
FlavorSum shares why sensory language plays a crucial role in communicating your taste experience and expectations to your flavor supplier.
New Product Development Documents: A Checklist for Food and Beverage Brands
FlavorSum’s regulatory team shares details about the new product development documents needed to commercialize food & beverage innovations.
How to Write a Flavor Project Brief: Guidelines for Food and Beverage Developers | FlavorSum
FlavorSum shares tips for writing a flavor project brief to help food and beverage formulators communicate desired outcomes.
WEBCAST: Creating Premium RTD Cocktails | FlavorSum
Learn how to develop a premium RTD cocktail to meet brand goals and deliver a high-quality drinking experience.
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.
WEBCAST: How the Popularity of Gummies is Transforming VMS
Are you creating gummies supplements with vitamins or other active ingredients? Our latest webcast led by FlavorSum Director of Marketing Lisa Jackson has the insights you need to know to inform your innovation plan.
Innovation Evolution: Ready-to-Drink Cocktail Formats Go Large to Win
The appeal of a single-serve, ready-to-drink cocktail isn’t dimming. Discover how larger formats for RTDs are meeting the evolving needs of alcoholic beverage drinkers.
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.
Flavors to Sweeten Your Success from FlavorSum at IFT 2023
FlavorSum, a North American flavor producer, has begun construction on an expansion project that will add 35,000 square feet to its Kalamazoo facility.
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!
FlavorScience Episode 6: Snack Bar Evolution
In the sixth installment of the FlavorScience series, Applications Scientist Roseanne McGuire demonstrates how to create a delicious reduced-sugar snack bar bite.
How the Snack Bar Market is Evolving to Meet Consumer Needs (Video)
Let’s take a look at how snack bar formulators are finding new and creative ways to deliver great products to their customers.
WEBCAST: The Snack Bar Evolution: Ideas for Flavor, Function, and Format
Join FlavorSum Director of Marketing, Lisa Jackson as she explores snack bar innovation ideas that align with interest in flavor, function, and format. Our webcast provides several snack bar concepts to inspire your product development journey!
Creating Lasting Connections with Gen Z (Video)
Join us as we explore key attributes of Gen Z and the ways in which food and beverage brands can create connections with this diverse generation.
FlavorScience Episode 5: Ice Cream
In the fifth installment of our FlavorScience series, Senior Applications Scientist, Kelsey Cheadle walks us through crafting a delicious ice cream prototype.
WEBCAST: Finding Sweet Success with Ice Cream
Join FlavorSum Director of Marketing, Lisa Jackson as she shares the market dynamics and consumer behaviors shaping today’s ice cream market.
Innovation Investigation: Ice Cream Trends (Video)
Let’s explore ice cream trends and recently launched products to understand what’s driving new product innovation.
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!
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.
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.
FlavorScience Episode 2: Nutritional Gummies (Video)
This video explores how to successfully formulate nutritional gummies and explores the challenges that can arise during the product development process.
Formulating Basics For Gummies (Video)
Explore the basics of gummy formulation to ensure your next launch is a success.
Using Flavor to Enhance Mood-Boosting Foods & Beverages
Consumers are turning to nutrition to manage stress and balance their mood. Let’s explore how the relationship between flavor and function can lead to innovation opportunities.
Tips to Help Build Function and Flavor into Snack Bars
The snack bar category is rapidly picking up pace as COVID-19 restrictions lessen. Formulators can tap into new flavor trends to meet consumer needs.
FlavorScience Episode 1: Frozen Desserts (Video)
This video explores how to successfully formulate frozen desserts by leveraging base flavors, unique inclusions, and delicious variegates.