Blending Flavors for Flavored Water

      

Blending two or more flavor concentrates adds an exciting new dimension to flavored waters

Flavored Blends Using Flavor Concentrates

Why introduce a flavor blend or even include them at all in your flavored applications?

Blueberry Flavoring Drops-Pomegranate Flavoring Drops, Mango-Passion Fruit Flavoring Concentrates, Strawberry-Acai. Blending flavor concentrates into flavored waters and other applications can bring a delightful new spin to your tasting experience. Blending flavored drops motivates our old customers and attracts new ones for blending flavors used in flavored waters and other applications.



Flavor blends are featured in about 25% of new flavorings introduced, and a much higher percentage in categories such as cereal, energy drinks, desserts and chewing gums. Blending flavor concentrates provides a terrific opportunity to attract consumer attention by adding excitement to a familiar mainstream flavor with a new twist to the up and coming.

Our mainstream flavoring concentrates serve as anchors for the customer, giving them a starting point and basis they're comfortable with, such as raspberry. Blend that flavor drop with the exotic flavors of acai-berry or pomegranate and we've just given you a new reason to be interested- and purchase our products.

It wasn't that long ago that strawberry-kiwi was first introduced as a flavoring blend. Strawberry was the anchor flavoring since it was already recognized and approved as a basic flavoring additive and then the exotic kiwi was the intriguing step into something new in flavoring. Strawberry flavoring gave customers the reassurance necessary to try the new blend, and now strawberry -kiwi is a mainstream flavoring seen in everything from juices and gums to chap stick and hair care products.

 

How Flavor Blends are Created for Flavoring Concentrates

 

 

Our flavorists work with us and our taste panels to create the perfect blend and combination of flavorings for specific flavoring application. Blends used in flavored waters are really different from blends used in flavor drops for coffee for example. No matter what the application, our flavorists have a lot to consider when developing flavors used as flavor concentrates.

Finding Flavor Balance is a key factor for flavored waters

Balancing is key factor throughout the flavoring development process. Flavorists work hard to find the right amount of each flavor concentrate used in the blend to achieve the right flavor profile. This included the strength of the flavors to be blended. In a pomegranate-acai blend for example, the flavor would 90-95% pomegranate because acai is strong with a woody flavor that is typically more pleasant in smaller amounts.

 
Communications

There are a couple of ways flavorists connect the flavor with us and our customers. The 1st is the flavorist has a clear target, such as matching an existing flavor to the newer flavoring. Other times the flavorist let us determine percentage of each flavor we wish to use in the blend.  Sometimes this is a better approach because it lets the us determine which flavor we want most to dominate in the finish flavor concentrate, or they can even provide us varied levels of concentration and let the us and our customer go through a taste testing preference.

Whenever blending Yum Drops flavor concentrates always choose an anchor flavor. That's one you really like and know. Then choose another flavor concentrate to blend it with. Back to our pomegranate-acai blend. Always use the anchor at 3:1. That means 3 drops of pomegranate to every drop of acai flavoring concentrate.

Consider blending flavor concentrates together. Be creative-the only rule is that it taste great! Some of the best flavored waters and flavored teas are blended flavors. Our most popular combination is peach-mango so we actually made it a flavor blended concentrates. It works as well in flavored waters as it does in flavored teas.

Conclusion to blending flavors