Flavor Trends Category

There have been many flavor trends affecting out eating habits over the last few years.

The key category of flavour trends can be divided into three application directions:

Salty snacks
Salty snacks with mostly typical flavours (cheese, salt, chili) hot and new flavours which indicate potential growth segment (meaty flavours, ethnic flavours in new ways). The research showed that Hispanics had the greatest interest in snacks flavored with chili, citrus and cheeses seasoning.

Flavored snacks are a valued added item. The seasoning can make or break a product and sufficient sensory and market testing in necessary to produce an acceptable flavor.

Juices
Juices with orange being predominant or extremely fragmented flavour blends –orange plus other flavours such as aloe vera, mango, hibiscus, vitamin fortified.

Citrus flavors are among the most important ingredients in food processing and are widely used in mainly in fruit juice containing beverages, soft drinks, dessert, frozen yoghurt and bakery products.

Sugar confectionary
Sugar confectionary strawberry on top on all regions and regions with very specific flavours and generally a high geographic diversity (chocolate within the top ten of Asia, liquorice in Europe, tamarind in Latin America, sour in North America.

Additional, strong increases are for ethnic offering in meals. Unique flavour trends and changes in ethnic foods are influencing the spice and seasoning market. Many of the new ethnic cuisine and flavour trends of the new millennium have strong, unique uses of spices.
Flavor Trends Category